Dear Colleagues, our library is exploring patron-driven
acquisitions. For those of you who have instituted patron-driven
acquisitions / demand-driven acquisitions, I would like to know more
about your implementation experience. Specifically:
General implementation:
1. For profiling, how similar or different is your PDA / DDA profile
from your regular approval plan if you have an approval plan?
2. What were the steps you and your vendor took to ensure a seamless
PDA implementation?
3. Did you start with single use for the electronic titles, or go
with multiple user access from the beginning?
System and Records:
4. What type of system preparations were necessary before the field
mapping was set for loading the records for available titles in your
systems?
5. Do you have a policy on how long the records stay in your system
--
a. for any titles that are not purchased?
b. for titles that are borrowed a few times but do not reach the
purchasing demand level?
c. any other scenarios I am overlooking that need to be factored in?
6. If you have deleted records for non-used / non-purchased titles
from your system:
a. did you implement a "reverse load" that extracted the records from
your system?
i. did the vendor send you
a file to run against your system for deletion purposes?
b. did you identify the non-used records in-house and what steps did
you take?
i. how did you go about
defining a common data element for batch deletion?
Your users and use patterns:
7. How did you inform your user communities of this new plan?
8. What types of user patterns did you observe?
a. How did the discovery, borrowing, and purchasing of electronic
titles actually occur?
b. Did you find many instances of serendipity with users finding the
titles in your system and then requesting them?
c. For academic libraries, did you find the selections spread across
the curricular areas in a pattern similar to traditional acquisitions,
or were there differences?
Costs and workflows:
9. Did the plan cost you more or less than anticipated?
10. How did you fold in patron-driven acquisitions with traditional
acquisitions?
a. Did you create separate fund groupings to track payments for
patron-driven acquisitions titles?
b. What kind of workflow changes were triggered by your start of
patron-driven acquisitions?
Are there additional important factors I am overlooking?
Thank you very much for your insights.
Best regards,
Antje Mays
Head, Monograph & AV Acquisitions
Ida Jane Dacus Library, Winthrop University
824 Oakland Avenue
Rock Hill, South Carolina 29733, USA
phone: 001-803-323-2274 fax: 001-803-323-3285
e-mail: maysa_at_winthrop.edu <mailto:maysa_at_winthrop.edu>
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/maysa <http://faculty.winthrop.edu/maysa>
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Received on Thu Feb 03 2011 - 13:41:31 EST