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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Melissa,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Not exactly what you’re asking below, but we are in our first year of EBAs and I have given some thought to what you pose below. In both of our programs,
we are getting 2014-2017 content, and I imagine we’ll get 2015-2018 content next year. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To avoid the scenario you describe below, if my assumption holds true, my plan is to purchase the most-used titles from the 2014 collections rather
than go strictly on usage. Of course, if some of the most used titles are from 2015-2017 are no longer included in the EBA, they’ll merit consideration as well. A bunch of if’s, but that is my strategy as of right now. Hopefully, this tactic keeps the EBAs
sustainable and we can use the accumulated usage over the course of years to determine how well materials are aging when making selection decisions down the road.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matt Gallagher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Assistant Professor, Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Collection Management & Metadata Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of the Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">600 S. 43<sup>rd</sup> St., Philadelphia, PA 19104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ph: (215) 596-8963<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Belvadi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 6, 2018 4:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] thoughts about unsustainability of EBAs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi, all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As we finish our first year of EBAs, and renew most of them, I've had a thought I want to bounce off all of you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our context is that we're a small library and paying the minimum deposit that each of the EBAs allow for a library our size. That sometimes gets us their full catalogue but most often gets us
just a portion, like a few years of frontlist or a few most-desired subject collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After the year is complete, we "spend out" our account before renewing with more money for another year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What that means is that we just bought the most demanded books from that publisher, so they're no longer part of the next EBA cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Imagine looking at a list of the books available in that EBA package sorted from highest use to least. We're cutting the "head" off that list by purchasing them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So we enter the second year, having to deposit at least the same amount of money again (or even more as some publishers ask for an increased amount minimum), but now the most likely-use books
are removed from the pool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yes, patron use varies from year to year, so the second year, and probably the third, we'll probably be able to still get enough use to justify the deposits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And yes, hopefully each year the publisher is adding new frontlist books that your patrons haven't seen, assuming your EBA profile is providing frontlist (JSTOR EBA is strictly backlist, for
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But I'm thinking that 3-5 years down the road, unless our curriculum/research programs significantly change, we'll hit the point where we are no longer seeing enough demand/usage for the unpurchased
books remaining in that publisher's EBA-able catalogue to justify the amount they want in deposit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The 80-20 rule for book use is probably at play in here somewhere too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Has anyone here been in EBA programs for enough years to test this hypothesis?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Melissa Belvadi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">University of Prince Edward Island<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">public calendar</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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