Hi Antje,
The way we deal with patron driven requests is probably quite different than
what you are inquiring about, but the patron request feature of JTacq works
very well for us.
JTacq is a free collection development/purchasing application, designed to
work together with your library's automation system.
(http://www.jtdata.com/jtacq.html) It has a whole host of time saving and
money saving features. Here is how the patron request feature works.
A hotlink, "Recommend a Title," is added to any appropriate page on your
institution's website. Of course the text can be anything you want. One of
places we display it is on the sidebar of our online catalog.
(http://libcat.asburyseminary.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/49/?user_id=ATSWE
B) When the hotlink is clicked, a window appears prompting the patron to
either open an account or enter their email address and password. Once they
log in they are able to search using any combination of Author, Title or
General Keywords, qualified by Item Type. On the search results screen the
patron is presented with the titles that match their query. When they find a
title they want, they simply click on the Submit button. Then a screen
appears with bibliographic information and a comment box. If they do not
find the title they want, they can still enter the bibliographic information
manually. When they click the submit button on this page their transaction
is complete, and the information is sent immediately to your JTacq desktop
application.
Library policy will dictate what happens next, but it is a good idea to let
JTacq do an automatic search of your database to see if you already have the
title. Then the title can be sent to another website where an official
selector can decide whether to acquire it. Or you might choose to use JTacq
to do a federated search of all your primary vendors to find out where it
can be acquired at the lowest cost.
Our students and faculty use the "Recommend a Title" feature very little, so
we are almost always able to purchase their requests. The feature is used
more heavily by student workers who have the task of making sure the library
has a copy of the titles listed on faculty syllabi. JTacq can also be used
to generate notices, but we don't currently use that feature.
I hope you will find that this free tool can help you accomplish at least
some of your patron-driven acquisitions goals.
Best regards,
Don
Don Butterworth
Faculty Associate / Librarian III
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
(859) 858-2227
<mailto:don.butterworth_at_asburyseminary.edu>
don.butterworth_at_asburyseminary.edu
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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: <mailto:maysa_at_winthrop.edu> maysa_at_winthrop.edu
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