1. Monograph Acquisitions after the WAGUL Agreement
Ali Nearn - Manager, Access Services
Hello,
Notre Dame, as many of you will have worked out by now, didn’t participate in the WAGUL agreement,
however we did go through a similar review process,
So today I’m going to briefly outline the context for this process; what we did and where we are now.

2. Where we were… Outside of the WAGUL agreement…
Multi campus, 7 Libraries
Multiple suppliers
DA Information Services
Where we were… Click > Multi campus
As some of you would know Notre Dame is highly dispersed multi campus university
Campuses in Broome, Fremantle & Sydney & additional locations in rural NSW and Victoria
Seven Libraries- 1 in Broome, 3 Fremantle, 2 Sydney, 1 Werribee medical schools
Akin to a network of special libraries - small teams in each library, with centralised management of shared services
Click > multiple vendors
We were also operating with a distributed acquisitions model, with multiple suppliers & varying degrees of consistency across processes and trading terms
Click > DA Information Services
Enter DA… In mid 2013, DA Information Services announced they were entering into voluntary administration
DA’s announcement while unfortunate for them, presented both a need & an opportunity for us to re-evaluate our current supply chain and current acquisitions practices.
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3. What we did… Expressions of interest Coutts vs YBP
Preference for ‘e’ over ‘p’
YBP supplier of choice
What we did…
Click > Expressions of Interest
A working party was formed and calls for expressions of interest were sent to the 2 major contenders, Coutts and YBP.
And the usual comparisons were made against criteria including the extent of Australian content; interface functionality; selection & acquisitions workflows etc
Both suppliers had the capacity to deliver across this set of criteria
 Click > Preference for ‘e’ over ‘p’
At the time however, the differences lay in each supplier’s capacity to deliver in the ebook space & with a preference for electronic over print, this was important to us
We were particularly interested in cross publisher and aggregator ebook offerings and also the capacity to manage multi vendor demand driven acquisitions models and the supplier’s interest in working with next gen cloud based library systems
Click > YBP supplier of choice
In this context there was one clear choice… YBP
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4. Where we are now… Centralised processes Combination of books suppliers
Demand Driven Acquisition
Other evidence based models
Where we are now…
Acquisitions have now been centralised on the Fremantle & Sydney campuses & we have established an agreed supply chain through a combination of book suppliers
Click > Combination of book suppliers
YBP is our supplier of single ebooks and print titles from overseas publishers & these represent the majority of our acquisitions, we don’t currently manage any DDA profiles through YBP but haven’t discounted doing so in the future
CoInfo is our preferred supplier of print books from Australian publishers= 2 reasons, 1st to continue to trade with an Australian supplier and 2nd we strongly objected to the shipping of materials housed in Australia to the US & back again when James Bennett merged with YBP.
Co-Op remains our Textbook supplier
And we now use a small number of specialist suppliers for some print resources & also go directly to the publishers for specialist ebook titles where these aren’t supplied through YBP eg. Law
Click > Demand Driven Acquisition
We implemented Demand Driven Acquisitions with EBL & JSTOR in 2014 and 2015 respectively and have entered into these models again this year
Click > other Evidence based ebbok models
We’re also currently trialling the CCH evidence based ebook model and there is some interest in other demand driven and evidence based models including Ebsco, Cambridge & ProQuest’s Access to Own model, so watch this space.
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5. Thank you…