1. MyiLibrary and Patron Driven Acquisition at SIU-Carbondale
Jonathan Nabe & Andrea Imre
CARLI eBook Symposium
March 4, 2009

2. Background History With Ebooks Patron Driven Acquisition
NetLibrary
Megacollections (Sabin, LION, EEBO)
Reference titles (and Credo)
Patron Driven Acquisition
Greater Western Library Alliance
End of year money

3. Inner Workings License agreement
Deposit $ according to institutional needs
Titles accessed 2 times charged against that account
Monthly usage reports and invoices
Unlimited # of concurrent users
No ILL allowed

4. Selection

6. MARC records

9. MARC Records Evaluated Record quality Customized as needed
Filtered out duplicates of SIUC print holdings (479 titles)
Bulk load of 8540 records into catalog
End of contract adjustment – only purchased records remain
New MARC records for new books published since last load

16. Invoicing Monthly itemized invoice based on use Some problems:
Monthly invoice does not total the charges
Manually add them and compare with separate spreadsheet which provides the account balance
Incorrect invoicing; numbers do not add up

17. Assessment Numbers are increasing
We have purchased 75 titles in 3 months (and 584 have been accessed at least once)
Average price is $111.00

18. Questions?
Contact Info:
Jonathan Nabe
Andrea Imre