1st Edition

Patron-Driven Acquisitions Current Successes and Future Directions

Edited By Judith Nixon, Robert Freeman, Suzanne Ward Copyright 2011
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

For over a decade, some academic libraries have been purchasing, rather than borrowing, recently published books requested by their patrons through interlibrary loan. These books had one circulation guaranteed and so appealed to librarians who were concerned about the large percentage of books selected and purchased by librarians but never checked out by their patrons. Early assessments of the... Read more

1. Patron-Driven Acquisitions: An Introduction and Literature Review  ACQUIRING PRINT BOOKS THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN REQUESTS  2. Liberal Arts Books on Demand: A Decade of Patron-Driven Collection Development, Part 1  3. Science and Technology Books on Demand: A Decade of Patron-Driven Collection Development, Part 2  4. A Study of Circulation Statistics of Books on Demand: A Decade of Patron-Driven Collection Development, Part 3  5. Just How Right Are the Customers? An Analysis of the Relative Performance of Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loan Monograph Purchases  6. Own Not Loan: Different Request Sources for Purchase Lists  7. Just Passing Through: Patron-Initiated Collection Development in Northwest Academic Libraries  ACQUIRING PATRON-SELECTED E-BOOKS  8. Resolving the Challenge of E-Books  9. Developing a Multiformat Demand-Driven Acquisition Model  10. Patron-Initiated Collection Development: Progress of a Paradigm Shift  INNOVATIVE SERVICES/NEW DIRECTIONS  11. Point-of-Need Collection Development: The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) and a New System for Acquisitions and Interlibrary Loan Integrated Workflow and Collection Development  12. Want Buy-In? Let Your Students Do the Buying! A Case Study of Course-Integrated Collection Development  13. User-Driven Acquisitions: Allowing Patron Requests to Drive Collection Development in an Academic Library  14. Some Thoughts on Opportunities for Collection Development Librarians

Biography

Judith M. Nixon is currently the College of Education Librarian and responsible for building the education collection. Past positions at Purdue have involved her in collection development efforts in subjects as varied as nutrition and management. Her interest in patron-driven acquisition comes from her focus on providing the best services to users.

Robert S. Freeman is Reference and Foreign Languages & Literatures Librarian for the Purdue University Libraries . He is responsible for collection development in several foreign languages and literatures, as well as linguistics, comparative literature, classical studies, Asian studies, and music. His research interests include library history and publishing history.

Suzanne M. Ward is Head, Collection Management for the Purdue University Libraries. In her former position at Purdue as Head, Access Services, she was an early implementer of the Interlibrary Loan book purchasing model and was active in the resource sharing arena. Her current interests include analyzing low use print material for potential de-selection.