Thanks to the 100+ Librarians who attended our ACRL session on Patron Initiated Purchasing. During the presentation, Alice and I surveyed the attendees, using audience response systems. These results have been posted to the ACRL Virtual Conference. In a nutshell:
85% of you have collection development responsibilities
94% purchase ebooks
61% were familiar with patron driven/patron initiated models
13% already use it, 68% are interested, and only 2% would not use it, the rest were uncertain
Reasons for using patron driven/patron initiated models include:
save time 11%, increase usage 25%, give patrons choices 25%, just in time resources 27%, provide chapters 11%
We had a great Q/A discussion afterwards as well. During this I mentioned several resources on the blog. They are linked here:
article on Patron Driven Acquisition
Poll on PDA – currently on the homepage of the blog
interviews with publishers, aggregators, librarians
Glad you could attend.
Sue Polanka, Alice Crosetto,with Kari Paulson (President, EBL)
2 responses so far ↓
1 Steven Harris // Mar 18, 2009 at 7:11 pm
This was a great session. Really made people think about their procedures and practices. Thanks.
2 Deborah // Mar 19, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Hi, Sue,
great session and great to meet you at ACRL!
You mentioned that you did a study of circ stats of your approval plan books (I’m not sure if I got that right.) Can you provide any details on how you did that? I’d like to replicate it here.
I’ll be in touch lots from now on, I’m sure.