3. Five undergraduate colleges and two graduate
universities
~ 6600 students, 800 faculty
Multiple departments with the same subject
Joint inter-collegial programs
One Library – rates as "Medium Doctoral/Research
University" library
~ 1,000,000 print books
~ 400,000 e-books
~ 70,000 e-journals
4. Why Course Adopted Books?
Set-up of the service
Usage statistics - print and e-books
Look at the usage of the same titles in print and electronic format
Comparison between CAB and non-CAB e-books
Disciplinary specifics in usage of course adopted materials
attributed to Frank Kotsonis
Special Thanks to
Candace Lebel –
ILS Coordinator and
Systems Analyst
5. Curriculum mapping and focus on specific local needs for
teaching and learning
Small Approval Plan, University presses supplementary
AP
Demand driven approach to Collection Development
Increased reliance on resource sharing – Link+ and ILL
Increased reliance on access rather than ownership
6. Part of the curriculum
Demand driven
High usage
6%1%
7. Required and recommended
readings list provided by
faculty to the Campus
Bookstore.
Spring 2013 list contained
approx. 2700 titles
70% were already owned
30% were purchased ($35,000
- 7.7% of the pbook budget)
96 titles (~3.6%) duplicated
as e-books
68%
2%
26%
4%
Owned in print
Owned as e-book
Purchased in print only
Purchased in both print and as e-book
8. New item status
7-day short term loan
not allowed on Link+
unlimited renewals
students can put holds
CABs are shelved in the
stacks with the regular
collection
Some titles are put on reserve by the professor – i.e.
reserves take precedence
Some titles are library use only – no change
11. 58% of the print Course Adopted
Books have circulated at least once
Jan-Apr 2013
In comparison – 60% of the print book
collection of the Library has circulated
at least once during its whole shelf life
14. 96 titles (3.6% of the
list) – duplicated in
both print and
electronic format
Unique opportunity to
try and understand
students' format
preferences
Sample was not
random – based on e-
book availability from
EBL and Ebrary
68%
2%
26%
4%
Owned in print
Owned as e-book
Purchased in print only
Purchased in both print and as e-book
23. Print books:
o length of loan
period
o # of circulations
in days
o # of renewals
o # of times the
book is re-
shelved – i.e.
internal use
E-books
Ebrary
o # of sessions
o # of section requests
EBL
o Browsing - # of users and
minutes
o Reading online - # of users
and minutes
o Downloading - # of users
and days
25. 21
25
16
357
20
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
Average number of days borrowed (incl. Link+)
Average number of days borrowed from the
Library
Average # of days download
Average number of min reading online
Average number of min browsing online
27. 141 COURSE ADOPTED BOOKS IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT
88 from EBL
(~60% of all EBL e-books) 53 from Ebrary
(0.08% of all Ebrary e-books)
17
71
Available only as e-book
Available also in print
28
25
Available only as e-book
Available also in print
28. 48 (55%)
7 (12%)
55 (37%)
40 (45%)
53 (88%)
93 (63%)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
CAB non-CAB All EBL e-books
used not used
29. 3.60
9.84
3.65
257.21
4.31
18.41
1.71
0.86
1.00
0.00
1.50
1.50
0.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 250.00 300.00
Browse - average user count per book
Browse - average min per book
Read online - average user count per book
Read online - average min per book
Download - average user count per book
Download - average # of days per book
non-CAB (7) CAB (48)
32. More data analysis - subject and disciplinary
analysis of all CABs, comparison with Link+
requests, including data from other e-book
providers, etc.
Expanding the service to items on syllabi and
reading lists
Expanding the physical reserve area and placing all
CABs on reserve