Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Results
25 titles (42%) were purchased automatically to
date at a cost of $3,890.
11 titles were purchased within the 1 st month.
7 more titles were purchased within the next
three months.
Latest purchase was July 22, 2010.
13 titles (22%) were purchased by me in April
2009 with year-end money costing $2,280. I
deemed these titles worthy of addition to our
permanent collection.
21 (35%) titles remain in the catalog awaiting
discovery & purchase.
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How it worked:
Almost no publicity. What would patrons
discover on their own? (helped by large # of titles
& recent dates coming to top of results)
Titles not purchased until 3-4 patron-initiated
short-term loans (small fraction of purchase price)
Short-term loans (STLs) = download or >5
minutes of reading
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/bizbrary/?page_id=45
In-class presentations
Email & e-newsletters
Most used Sci/Tech Title
in 2011:
FINDINGS
Most used Business
Title in 2011:
Introduction to Marketing
Concepts
A Wordle diagram of
Conclusions
1. Patron driven acquisition works.
Dont be afraid of it.
2. A variety of models including
selector-guided programs are
successful.
3. Publicity is not required. E-books
can be & are discovered by patrons
in your catalog.
4. Biggest benefit of large-scale PDA
catalog loads may be in meeting
patron needs via short-term loans.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to Charles Lyons, our Scholarly
Communication and Electronic Resources Librarian,
and the UB E-Book Task Force for providing
assistance & data for this project. Task Force
Members: Charlie DAniello, Cynthia Bertuca, Nina
Cascio, Kate Cunningham-Hendrix, John Ilardo,
Charles Lyons, Sue Neumeister.