1. PATRON DRIVEN ACQUISITION Edge Hill University Pilot 2012-13 Collaborative Partnerships Event Edge Hill University 20 th June 2013

2. Patron Driven Acquisition "a model of purchasing in which the librarians set the parameters of purchase and the patron pulls the trigger." (Ken Chad, 2011)

3. PDA trends in the UK  All major suppliers in the UK market now offering PDA – Dawson, Ingram, EBL, ebrary, Ebsco  Suppliers offering increasingly flexible models – loan, purchase or combination models in response to the high demands PDA can place on budgets  Contrast with some publishers becoming increasingly protective of e-book licenses with higher prices & more restrictive licenses  Majority of UK universities have now tried PDA in one form or another  Some universities now reporting PDA as an every day part of the acquisitions landscape

4. Why did we want to pilot PDA?  To promote ebooks.  To increase availability and range.  To improve the student experience and increase satisfaction.

5. PDA at Edge Hill  Pilot 2012/13  Strict limit on budget, split into two phases of £6600 and £12,000  Targeted the PDA spend on areas with low NSS scores or priority areas  Purchase model  Soft launch

6. How it worked  12,000 e-book titles added to catalogue in September 2012 & January 2013  Tried & tested supplier platform - DawsonEra  Funds paid into supplier account  PDA purchases offset against the account until the money ran out!  Non-purchased titles suppressed on catalogue between pilot phases

7. The student experience  12,000 PDA titles discoverable through our OPAC & discovery tool  Users initially offered 5 minute preview of e-book  Purchase triggered if user opted to continue reading beyond the 5 minute preview OR if a 2 nd preview took place (amended to 3 rd preview in Jan 2013)  Seamless for the user

8. What happened!  226 PDA titles purchased  Sept funds spent in 19 days / Jan funds spent in 14 days!  60 of the titles were already stocked in print  38 of these were on reading lists and the print copies show heavy usage – PDA helped to satisfy high demand

9. Purchase Triggers

10. Usage – Key statistics*  PDA titles have been used 5303 times  Most popular title is Research Methods in Physical Education & Sport (366 accesses)  53% of PDA titles have been used more than 10 times in the first year  Only 9 titles were purchased and only used once * to 31 st May 2013

11. What next?  Continue to monitor usage – are PDA titles better used than ebooks selected by librarians/academics?  Planning for 2013/14 PDA with increased budget  Modify parameters & purchase triggers for 2013/14  Rental models?  Continue to monitor the PDA experiences of other universities

12. Any Questions? Kath Halfpenny Acquisitions Manager kathryn.halfpenny@edgehill.ac.uk