adding pda for print? consider your options for implementation
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Andrew Welch (speaker), Lisa McDonald (speaker), Teri Koch (speaker)TRANSCRIPT
ADDING PDA FOR PRINT?Consider Your Options for Implementation
Teri Koch – Head, Collection Development, Drake University
Andrew Welch – Librarian for Discovery Services & Technology, Drake University
Lisa McDonald – Account Manager, Ingram-Coutts
AGENDA
1. SET UP QUESTIONS & DECISIONS
2. DRAKE UNIVERSITY BACKGROUND
3. IMPLEMENTATION – PILOT DEVELOPMENT (OVERVIEW)
4. IMPLEMENTATION – TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS
5. PROJECT EXPERIENCE/RESULTS
6. PROJECT METRICS
7. FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
SET UP QUESTIONS AND DECISIONS
Why Print PDA? Which areas should be moved to PDA? How long does it take to receive a book? Will
it take “too long?” How can we set reasonable expectations?
What will it look like in our OPAC? Will this add work for our patrons and library
staff?
SET UP QUESTIONS AND DECISIONS
Real time stock check Program for this = good idea of timing Leave out = use a placeholder for timing
Form for patron Ask lots of questions for follow up Keep it simple or even leave out
Mediated or Unmediated Requests directed to acquisitions Or go straight to vendor
DRAKE UNIVERSITY – DES MOINES, IOWA
Largest private academic library in Iowa
Around 5,000 FTE students
Colleges/Schools:--Arts & Sciences--Business (MBA, MPA)--Education (EdD)--Journalism--Law (JD)--Pharmacy (PharmD)
COWLES LIBRARY 12 Librarians; 10 Staff Librarians have
faculty rank & status 400,000 book
volumes 2,378 PDA print books 19,000 subscribed to
or owned electronic books
173,000 PDA e-books Current acquisitions
budget=$1,498,000
DRAKE UNIVERSITY PDA BACKGROUND
History of e-book PDA with EBL—since 2009
Program has been successful
WHY EXPAND ELECTRONIC PDA TO INCLUDE PRINT?
Some same reasons as for ebook PDA: Greater depth, breadth of titles available for
patrons More effective use of financial resources Buy what patrons need when they need it
Some titles not available in electronic format, or not available for a long time.
Some titles are exorbitantly expensive in an e-format (which our price limiters would exclude), but are more reasonably priced in print
We wanted to include these materials in our PDA offerings.
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATIONPilot Development, Budgeting, Vendor Selection, Profile Development
PILOT DEVELOPMENT
Four professional programs Business, Journalism, Pharmacy,
Education Strong Liaison support Budget reallocation from dedicated
monograph line to PDA Pilot began in April 2012 with soft roll-
out Pilot ran through August 2013
VENDOR SELECTION: CONSIDERATIONS
Ability to integrate formats without duplication
Technical considerations Real-time stock availability
PROFILE DEVELOPMENT
Librarian & teaching faculty roles Selection of format Delay in electronic publication Costs How far back to go (we did
current and previous year)
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATIONTechnical Considerations
DRAKE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273168957/
New ILS Locations
Custom catalog link
Web form
Script to interact with API
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Catalog Search Results
http://library.drake.edu/request-book?isbn=<ISBN>&title=<title>&fund=<fund_code>
Request this Book
Catalog Detail Page
“Request this book” – In Stock
“Request this book” – Not In Stock
PROJECT EXPERIENCE/RESULTS
HOW MANY PDA RECORDS DID PROFILE GENERATE: BY THE NUMBERS
Four subject areas: Business, Journalism, Psychology, Education
Ebook records: 1,031 Print records: 2,378 Total Ingram Coutts PDA records = 3,409
SO, 18 MONTHS LATER, HOW MUCH ACTIVITY DID THE PDA RECORDS GENERATE?
Subject area/Format # of titles Avg. $ Total $
Business Print 13 $30.31 $392.78
Business Electronic 5 $56.76 $283.78
Education Print 7 $31.59 $183.99
Education Electronic 14 $30.67 $429.42
Journalism Print 2 $35.87 $71.74
Journalism Electronic 2 $65.90 $131.80
Pharmacy Print 1 $42.65 $42.65
Pharmacy Electronic 6 $83.63 $501.78
TOTALS 50 $41.59 $2,037.94
FORM VISITS THAT DID NOT REQUEST A PURCHASE
# of titles Avg. cost* Total cost*
Business 11 $30.21 $332.31
Education 37 $31.59 $1,168.83
Journalism 8 $35.87 $286.96
Pharmacy 21 $42.65 $938.30
Totals* 78 $34.85 $2,683.75
*potential cost, not actual expenditure
PROJECT METRICS & FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
PILOT PROJECT: SUCCESS, FAILURE, OR MIXTURE?
Success: Library & Teaching Faculty choose parameters for PDA inclusion; librarians still have role in Collection Development
Success: Wider variety of books made available to patrons at point of need
Success: Didn’t spend money on unused materials. More efficient use of acquisitions $
Mixed bag/Failure: Not enough titles available in the catalog for patrons to discover
POST PILOT: FISH OR CUT BAIT?
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
We’ve just expanded the subjects covered to include ALL subjects taught at Drake
We used existing “slip” profiles with another vendor as a starting point
We also refined the existing “pilot profiles” to open them up. Conclusion: we “over-engineered” the profiling process initially.
Makes sense to let patrons decide on the “slip” titles since there was something about them that was not a “dead ringer” for purchase
FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
EBL records. When/how will they “play nice” with Ingram Coutts PDA records? TBD: Potential “filtering” of EBL records through the profiles in 2014
Overall Collection Development approach. Do librarians still develop a print collection in a
“just-in-time” PDA world? We would like to still develop a librarian &
faculty selected CORE print monograph collection. What does that look like? How much is budgeted for PDA vs. non-PDA monographs?
Weeding of PDA records. What is the magic number for TOO MANY?
QUESTIONS?
