Unnatural Selection: E-Book Choices in a PDA Program from a Community College Perspective
1. Unnatural Selection: E-Book
Choices in a PDA Program from a
Community College Perspective
Regina Gong, Lansing Community College Library
Sara Duff, Gulf Coast State College Library
2. About LCC Library
• Located in downtown Lansing
• Staff: 11 FT and 12 PT (Admin, Librarian and
Support)
• Sierra (ILS)
• Summon
• ~ $450,000 print and e-resources budget
3. Collection Overview
• 83,300 print titles
• 236,500 electronic resources (full text e-books,
e-journals, online gov’t docs)
• 13,412 streaming videos
• 4,300 AV materials
• 115 research databases
• 150 print periodicals
• 19 iPads and 15 Kindles for borrowing
9. DDA Program with YBP
• Integration with existing approval and slip
profiles
• Customized YBP discovery and cataloging records
• Multiple usage options
• Electronic invoicing for purchased titles
• Duplication control with other YBP purchases
• DDA status in GOBI
• Ability to run DDA with multiple aggregators
• Manual DDA option in GOBI
10. Criteria for DDA Title Pool
• Publication date from 2010 – 2013
• Only General Academic, Advanced Academic,
Basic and Popular level titles are included
• Only titles below $130 are loaded into DDA.
Max price per title set at $130
• Single user purchase option (SUPO) preferred
• Exclude title if a title doesn’t allow for shortterm loan
11. DDA Implementation
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DDA setup began mid-January 2013
Expenditure limit set at $5,000
Purchase trigger set after 3 STLs (or 4th use)
Loaded 1,162 records as initial pool Feb. 1, 2013
No promotion or marketing
New DDA records sent weekly and loaded into
catalog
• As of Nov. 6, DDA title pool is now 2,079
14. Top Titles 10 by Pages Viewed
TITLE
PAGES VIEWED
Domestic Violence Sourcebook : Basic Consumer Information about Intimate Partner Abuse, Stalking,
Sexual Harassment, and Human Trafficking, Including Facts about Risk Factors, Warning Signs, and
Forms of Physical, Sexual, Mental, Emotional, and Financial Abuse in Women, Men, Adolescents,
Recent Immigrants, Elders, and Other Specific Populations (4th Edition)
1052
Trans : Transgender Life Stories from South Africa
481
Slot Swing : The Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots Like the Pros
287
Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies
285
Better Homes and Gardens Decorating, Volume 24 : Real-Life Decorating
276
Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture, Volumes 1-4
156
Web Hosting For Dummies
135
Tesla : Inventor of the Electrical Age
115
Gangland : The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso to Vancouver
110
Cancer : Basic Science and Clinical Aspects
110
15. Surprises?
Title
Pages Viewed
Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies
285
Web Hosting For Dummies
135
Beer For Dummies (2nd Edition)
71
Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies (3rd Edition)
70
SharePoint 2013 For Dummies
62
Outlook 2013 for Dummies
59
WordPress For Dummies (4th Edition)
57
Golf All-in-One for Dummies
46
Project 2013 For Dummies
38
C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies
33
Exploring Windows 8 For Dummies
26
Online Community Management For Dummies
18
Project Management For Dummies (4th Edition)
15
16. Purchases by Subject
SUBJECTS
SOCIAL SCIENCE
COMPUTERS
SPORTS & RECREATION
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
MUSIC
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
PSYCHOLOGY
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
ARCHITECTURE
MEDICAL
POLITICAL SCIENCE
HISTORY
SCIENCE
RELIGION
PERFORMING ARTS
COOKING
LITERARY CRITICISM
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
E-BOOKS PURCHASED
14
10
6
5
4
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
17. Purchases by Publisher
PUBLISHER
TITLES PURCHASED
Wiley
23
ABC-CLIO
9
Omnigraphics
5
Jacana Media
3
Jossey-Bass
2
McFarland
2
Harvard University Press
2
Continuum International Publishing
2
Elsevier Science
2
Focal Press
2
18. What our Patrons are telling us?
• We like “For Dummies” titles
• We like e-books on popular culture and social
issues
• We like to learn about computers and
technology
• We like to explore psychology and
interpersonal, and family relationships
19. Next Steps
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Continue with DDA program
Expand title pool to increase DDA titles
Add EBSCOhost as 2nd preferred vendor
Encourage “manual” DDA feeds
Analyze DDA purchases/STLs vs. print book
circulation
• More promotion of e-book collection to
increase usage
21. About GCSC Library
• Part of the community college system
• 9 full-time staff (5 librarians, 1 director, 3
senior library assistants)
• Aleph
• PRIMO
30. Evolution of Profiles
11,051 titles totaling over $1.5 million
9145 totaling over $600K
2917 at $75K
2612 at $260K
1880 at $180K
1529 at $149K
1318 at $126K
1052 at $100K
514 titles totaling $38K
32. About the Initial Load
• Majority of titles in Business and Technology
• Levels range from “General – Popular” to
“Upper Undergraduate”
• Profile has been culled to focus on specific
programs
34. Things to do differently
• Don’t try to get this together the busiest time
of the year
• Give yourself room for things to go wrong
• Have a lot of structure when building profiles
• Increase communication
LCC is also the 3rd largest community college in MI with about 21,000 enrollment
Print titles including our Career Collection, READ collection and Leisure reading collection
More electronic materials compared to print
Broaden our collection
- more titles, more publishers, more subjects
Just in time purchasing
- pay only at point of need
- purchase based on demand
Integration with existing approval and slip profiles
Database of appropriate titles
Customized YBP discovery and cataloging records
Multiple usage options
Ebrary: up to 3 Short Term Loans (STL’s)
Roughly 10% of list price
After set number of loans, title invoices at list price
Electronic invoicing for purchased titles
Duplication control with other YBP purchases
DDA status in GOBI
Ability to run DDA with Multiple Aggregators
Manual DDA option in GOBI
Ability to hand-pick titles that might fall outside of the profile parameters and feed these into your DDA consideration pool
Our users don’t care whether we own the title or not since the process is very seamless on their end
67 titles costs $591.75
Would have cost us $4,480 had we purchased all 66 titles
2 titles triggered a purchase (full). Cost is $129.41
Slot Swing : The Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots Like the Pros (cost is $45.41)
Domestic Violence Sourcebook : Basic Consumer Information about Intimate Partner Abuse, Stalking, Sexual Harassment, and Human Trafficking,… (cost is $85.00)
Lots of “for dummies” books
Manual DDA feed – when slips are sent to librarians, you’ll see e-books thrown in the mix. For titles with print and e-book equivalents, librarians can opt not to purchase the print and just send the e-book into the DDA pool. How-to do this will be shown later.