Patron Driven Acquisitions Ready, Fire, Aim
Liberty University Private university founded in 1971 Carnegie Classification: Master’s L Fall 2010 FTE: 43,000 12,000 residential / 31,000 online Teaching university – largest graduate programs Education, Counseling, Seminary Enrollment (resident and online) and library resource budgets tripled over last five years
PDA Collection Overview ebrary – Contract signed December 2009 – Pilot from February to October 2010 – Live October to current Intentionally large, broad-based – Feedback on publisher/disciplinary gaps – Which disciplines would use ebooks – How PDA program with fewer limits would work
Overview cont’d Budgeted spending of $15,000 per month Initial agreement $12,500 deposit / $12, 500 per month Initial trigger was combination of 5 unique usages (unique page views, prints, or copies) 96K items offered, 53K items loaded English, 2003 publication date Pretty good deduplication (removed unlimited- use owned titles, some single-user)
MonthTitles Monthly Order Totals Avg Cost Per TitleMonthly Average February168$12,488.14$ unique usages March157$12,508.60$79.67 April468$38,002.39$81.20$21,000 May104$9,819.66$ unique usages June3$434.95$ July330$31,693.78$96.04 August140$12,370.84$88.36 September149$12,011.20$80.61$13,266 October217$17,848.98$ /10, print, copy November286$21,404.90$74.84 December119$11,845.98$99.55$17,033 Total2141$180, Average195$16,402.67$90.57
2010 Counter Report 6 – Searches and Sessions
Top Ten BISAC Categories Category Pages Viewed Pages Copied Pages Printed Unique Documents Business & Economics27, ,9271,080 Psychology19, , Religion20, , Social Science11, Political Science7, History9, Education6, Medical7, Literary Criticism5, Law3, Philosophy3,
2010 Counter Report 2 – Title Use TitlePublisherUse Encyclopedia of Counseling : Master Review and Tutorial for the National Counselor ExaminationRoutledge9,063 Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press2,083 Peter in the Gospel of John : The Making of an Authentic DiscipleBrill Academic Publishers1,480 Influencer : The Power to Change Anything McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing1,141 Children of Divorce : Stories of Loss and GrowthPsychology Press999 Leading with Values : Positivity, Virtue and High PerformanceCambridge University Press952 McGraw-Hill's GRE (2010 Edition) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing895 McGraw-Hill's ASVAB (2nd Edition) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing826 First Way of War : American War Making on the Frontier, Cambridge University Press820 Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies in Crisis InterventionGuilford Press743
Lessons, Impressions, Questions Business program unexpected use of books ebrary destination site with no marketing Budgets and MARCs can be managed Expertise of selectors works well with wisdom of researchers Growing budget but how much? 10/10/Print-Copy? Leasing? Print PDA? ebrary Profile?