1. Library
Discovery
Tool &
E-book
Update
Tara Cassidy (SO),
Molli Channell (JTCC),
and
Gene Damon (SO)

2. Agenda
 Discovering QuickSearch
 Overview
 QuickSearch @ JTCC
 E-book Update
 Part 1: STEM-H E-book Collections
 Part 2: VIVA Demand-Driven
Acquisitions Pilot

3. Discovering QuickSearch
 Onesearch for  Customized to your
books, articles, and college
media

4. QuickSearch Focus Groups
@ John Tyler C.C.
 Why focus groups?
 Feedback from all types of users
 Specific user experiences
 Lively discussion of service and perceived
usage
 Insight to help the library make decisions
for future promotional and instructional
use.

5. Focus Group Planning
 Scheduling
 Time preferences
 Advertising
 Library Web page, Facebook, and blog
 John Tyler intranet page and calendar
 SDV 100 and counselors
 Discipline-targeted materials

6. Focus Group Organization
 Define your goals
 Demo
 Discussion
 Capture feedback
 Tips
 Provide documentation
 Do not lead the discussion
 Do not give up
 Offer incentives

7. Focus Group Findings
 Overall positive reception
 Intuitive interface
 My Account tools
 Suggested improvements
 Users want citations!
 Interlibrary loan request option

8. E-book Update Part 1:
STEM-H E-books

9. 2013 STEM-H E-books
 Thesecontracts were made possible
through the support of Governor
McDonnell, Secretary of Education
Laura Fornash, the State Council of
Higher Education of Virginia, and
funding appropriated by the General
Assembly. We are very grateful to all of
them for their support.

10. VIVA Academic E-books
RFI Sub-committee
 Tara Cassidy (VCCS), chair
 Erin Crane (Liberty)
 Anna Creech (UR)
 Dawn Dawson (UVA)
 Liz Kocevar-Weidinger (Longwood)
 Meg Manahan (GMU)
 Ex Officio: Kathy Perry (VIVA)
 Ex Officio: Amanda Echterling (JMU)

11. Who Gets What?
 Over +2,700 frontlist  Available from your
titles from 2 library catalog
collections
 More titles will be  Bothcollections allow
released over the unlimited concurrent
course of the year user access.

12. 2013 Subject
Collections  Title list
1. Behavioral Sciences
2. Biomedical and Life  The Springer
Science collection will
3. Computer Science total +2,000 titles.
4. Earth and
Environmental Science

13.  Purchase a personal,
printed softcover
copy for your own
use.

14. ScienceDirect
2013 Collection
 Spans the science,
technology, and
health sciences
disciplines
 Title List
 ScienceDirect 2013
will have 700 titles

15. E-book Update Part 2:
Demand-Driven
Acquisitions (DDA) Pilot

16. What is DDA?
 DDA service allows us to display a pre-
selected pool of e-books in our library
catalog without buying them in
advance
 Users have on-demand access to any
DDA pool title they find
 VIVA will automatically purchase only
high-demand e-books from this pool
after a specific number of uses is
achieved VIVA-wide.

17. VIVA 12-Month DDA Pilot
 Pool is limited to STEM-H content only
 Exclusively VIVA-funded
 Will allow VCCS patrons access to several
thousand e-book titles via their home
library catalogs, and have VIVA pay only
for titles that are used.

18. Pilot Selection Model –
STEM-H Pool of Titles
1. There is no limit to the number of users
that can access a DDA pool e-book
simultaneously.
2. Users have a free 5-minute browse
period for any DDA pool e-book.
3. Browsing the e-book for more than 5
minutes, downloading, or printing
triggers a short-term loan (STL).

19. Pilot Selection Model –
Short Term Loans
4. Each STL incurs a small cost charged to
VIVA, not the user’s library.
5. Once a user triggers a STL, that user has
access to that e-book for 7 days.
6. A single user is limited to 25 STLs within a
24-hour period.

20. What Will STL Let Me Do?
 Read the e-book online or offline for 7 days
 Email up to 5%
 Print up to 20%
 Save chapters in PDF format
 Download complete e-book in PDF or EPUB
format to any device that supports Adobe
Digital Editions or the Bluefire Reader app.

21. Pilot Acquisitions Model –
Purchases
7. Enough STLs for the same e-book from
the DDA pool triggers VIVA to purchase
that e-book.
8. A VIVA-purchased e-book becomes an
owned title held in common.

22. Pilot Acquisitions Model -
Owned Titles
9. An owned title come with a generous
annual STL allowance.
10. Users now have a 10-minute browse
period before using the STL allowance.
11. The annual STL allowance automatically
renews on the anniversary date of a
purchase.

23. Pilot Outcomes
 At NH 2014, what will we have?
 New STEM-H e-books selected by our
users
A unique DDA model
 Data

24. Thank you
 tcassidy
at
vccs.edu
 mchannell at
jtcc.edu
 gdamon at
vccs.edu