<div dir="ltr">Hi Melissa,<div><br></div><div>This doesn't answer your question, but if the patron goes to the publisher platform, wouldn't they see the most recent edition as well, and be more likely to use the more recent addition?</div><div><br></div><div>Ad hoc, I've been asked to do this by subject liaisons, suppress the record for the older edition in the catalog and discovery layer, to make it more likely the student would find the newer record, knowing it wasn't completely removing the older book in all places.</div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Melissa Belvadi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I thought it would be many more years before we had to face this question, but no, it's here now...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We purchased a 2012 medical-related handbook as an ebook, full perpetual access rights, not even a hosting fee.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Now there's a 2018 newer edition which we are going to purchase.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The question has come up as to what we do about the old one?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">1. do we completely delete the catalogue record or just hide it from the public (which we can do)? Up to now, our catalogue records have been our primary method of tracking ownership of individually purchased ebooks, so deleting it totally would mean either effectively erasing our institutional memory of owning it, like throwing the print edition away ("de-accessioning" we would call it in the print world), or else setting up some other mechanism for tracking such books, but not sure why we would need to</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">2. if we're prepared to fully "de-accession" it like we would the print equivalent, how do we get the publisher/platform to also delete it from their list of our entitlements, so patrons searching directly on their platform don't accidentally find it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Has anyone actually tried to do this with a platform yet? Do the vendors comply?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm assuming the vendor does not have a mechanism in their patron "admin" services to allow us to suppress/hide it - as far as I can see, most don't have that ability.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Those of you who have already faced this issue - what are you doing regarding what faces the public and your own recordkeeping?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div class="m_-4816731838350553707gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> <a href="tel:(902)%20566-0581" value="+19025660581" target="_blank">902-566-0581</a></div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public calendar</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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