Presented at the 2015 Charleston Conference by Jim Dooley, Head, Collection Services, University of California, Merced

1. Interrogating Demand
Pathways Toward Purchase in Patron-influenced
E-book Models
Jim Dooley
University of California, Merced
jdooley@ucmerced.edu
2105 Charleston Conference

2. University of California, Merced
 Opened in 2005 with 875
students
 6,700 students including 400
graduate students
 Goal = 10,000 students by 2020
includes 1,000 graduate
students

3. E-books at UC Merced
 Currently 1.2 million volumes
available
 800,000 volumes through UC
consortia licenses
 400,000 volumes through local
licenses
 128,000 Ebrary subscription
 216,000 EBL DDA-3 short term loans
 55,000 MyiLibrary DDA-purchase on
2nd access

4. Reasons for Employing DDA
 Rapid uncoordinated
increases in faculty hiring
 Lack of librarians to
perform title-by-title
selection

5. EBL
2010-2011 to 2014-2015 Total spend = $337,785
Short term loans 22,863
Total STL spend $313.047
Cost per STL $13.69
Purchases 285
Total purchase spend $24,738
Cost per purchase $86.80

6. Response to 2014 Increases in STL Rates
 13 publishers removed
completely
 $30 cap on all Short Term
Loans
 Result: Number of available
titles reduced by 50%

7. MyiLibrary
2010-11 to 2014-2015
Total spend $64,362
Purchases 534
Cost per purchase $120.53