This session will provide a basic overview of the state of the art of ebook collection development and acquisition strategies as they pertain to individual libraries and shared collections. It will also solicit a list of ebook-related challenges from the audience, and suggest initial steps for a roadmap that could be followed to support future cooperative development of individual library and cooperative ebook strategies.
Toward Ebook Strategy Development for ATLA Member Libraries
1. Toward Ebook Strategy
Development for ATLA
Member libraries
Jason Price, PhD, MLS
jason@scelc.org
Director of Licensing Operations
SCELC Library Consortium
ATLA Annual Conference June 2017 Atlanta, GA
2. Think/Pair/Share - What is your
biggest ebook related challenge?
Getting people to use them
SPecific content needs
DRM – simultaneous users – Cost
Books being pulled out of DDA programs
Terrible marc records
Language materials
Developing a multiyear purchase plan / afoordability
Administative support for E (and P!)
Which format best dependig on the title
Offer with a minimum group participation that you don’t reach
3. [Aspirational] Conversation Outline
State of the art
Ebook Collection Development & Acquisition Strategies
For individual libraries
For shared collections
Cooperative Development Roadmap Foundation
Easy… Right?
The good news
4. Opinions/Biases that frame my perspective
Ranganathan’s (1931) 5 Laws still apply
(e)BOOKS ARE FOR USE
(e)BOOKS ARE FOR ALL (p 74)
EVERY (e)BOOK ITS READER
SAVE THE TIME OF THE (eBook) READER
A LIBRARY IS A GROWING ORGANISM
”…takes in new matter, casts off old matter, changes in size and takes new
shapes and forms…” (p 382)
Libraries should minimize staff time spent on collections & access
Practical limitations of print books DO NOT or SHOULD NOT apply
Ebooks have plenty of practical limitations of their own!
My work involves negotiating deep discounts on ebook collections
I work with general academic libraries many of which already spend more
on ebooks than on print books
5. Rubric of 5 Ebook Acquisition Evaluation
Criteria
Discount
Rights
Longevity
Granularity
Ease
FMI:
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/library_staff/37
Price, J. and Savova, M. (2015). DDA in Context: Defining
a Comprehensive Ebook Acquisition Strategy in an Access
Driven World. Against the Grain, 27(5), 20-22
13. Cooperative Collection Development Contexts
Cooperative
All-in
Cooperative
Opt-in
Cooperative
Local
•e.g Shared purchase
individually funded per
collection (e.g. Brill or
DeGruyter)
•e.g. Shared purchase
everybody gets (and
funds) everything
(e.g. TLELP)
•e.g. with faculty or
students
14. What foundations are needed for
cooperative collection development?
Greater Understanding of Ebook Acquisition Options
Shared Content Goals
Identification and Agreement on which content is most
desirable?
Modern Mechanisms for Content Discovery, Delivery, & Use
Shared Benefit & Funding
Others?
15. Your thoughts: What are some potential next
steps toward ATLA library Ebook Strategy
Development?
Editor's Notes
Practical & Theoretical
Multi-level – Individual and Shared
Extensive Basic Knowledge (a 101 course of sorts) & Graduate level thinking on Cooperative Possibility
Address an incredible diversity – even within ATLA -- of books, of libraries, of objectives
Oh and all that while leaving time for conversation !!!
Lowercase g – This is just a start, the hope is that we can broaden and extend the conversation
I chose 5 of many possible
Criteria are interrelated
Importance of each varies across libraries
Coming to an internal agreement (even with yourself) will be really helpful!
Most Libraries optimal strategy will incorporate many of these options
Title by Title Purchase
Demand-driven Acquisition (DDA)
Evidence-based Acquisition (EBA)
Package Purchase
Package Subscription