Patron Driven Acquisitions
Ready, Fire, Aim
Liberty University
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Private university founded in 1971
Carnegie Classification: Master’s L
Fall 2010 FTE: 43,000
12,000 residential / 31,000 online
Teaching university – largest graduate programs
Education, Counseling, Seminary
• Enrollment (resident and online) and library
resource budgets tripled over last five years
PDA Collection Overview
• ebrary
– Contract signed December 2009
– Pilot from February to October 2010
– Live October to current
• Intentionally large, broad-based
– Feedback on publisher/disciplinary gaps
– Which disciplines would use ebooks
– How PDA program with fewer limits would work
Overview cont’d
• Budgeted spending of $15,000 per month
• Initial agreement $12,500 deposit / $12, 500 per
month
• Initial trigger was combination of 5 unique usages
(unique page views, prints, or copies)
• 96K items offered, 53K items loaded
• English, < $200, > 2003 publication date
• Pretty good deduplication (removed unlimiteduse owned titles, some single-user)
Month
Titles
Monthly Order
Totals
Avg Cost
Per Title
Monthly Average
February
168
$12,488.14
$74.33
March
157
$12,508.60
$79.67
April
468
$38,002.39
$81.20
$21,000
May
104
$9,819.66
$94.42
10 unique usages
June
3
$434.95
$144.98
July
330
$31,693.78
$96.04
August
140
$12,370.84
$88.36
September
149
$12,011.20
$80.61
$13,266
October
217
$17,848.98
$82.25
10/10, print, copy
November
286
$21,404.90
$74.84
December
119
$11,845.98
$99.55
Total 2141
$180,429.42
Average
195
$16,402.67
$90.57
5 unique usages
$17,033
2010 Counter Report 6 – Searches and Sessions
Searches Run
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
Sessions
Top Ten BISAC Categories
Category
Pages
Viewed
Pages
Copied
Pages
Printed
Unique
Documents
Business & Economics
27,269
387
1,927
1,080
Psychology
19,874
493
1,947
539
Religion
20,838
314
1,355
491
Social Science
11,543
179
358
449
Political Science
7,342
112
416
435
History
9,969
100
224
321
Education
6,884
122
517
293
Medical
7,477
89
178
278
Literary Criticism
5,303
21
37
243
Law
3,811
61
86
180
Philosophy
3,604
62
247
165
2010 Counter Report 2 – Title Use
Title
Publisher
Use
Encyclopedia of Counseling : Master Review and Tutorial for
the National Counselor Examination
Routledge
9,063
Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000
Cambridge University Press
2,083
Peter in the Gospel of John : The Making of an Authentic
Disciple
Brill Academic Publishers
1,480
Influencer : The Power to Change Anything
McGraw-Hill Professional
Publishing
1,141
Children of Divorce : Stories of Loss and Growth
Psychology Press
999
Leading with Values : Positivity, Virtue and High Performance
Cambridge University Press
952
McGraw-Hill's GRE (2010 Edition)
McGraw-Hill Professional
Publishing
895
McGraw-Hill's ASVAB (2nd Edition)
McGraw-Hill Professional
Publishing
826
First Way of War : American War Making on the Frontier, 16071814
Cambridge University Press
820
Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies in Crisis Intervention
743
Guilford Press
Usage of Books per Title
PDA
SUPO
MUPO
44.4
23.8
20.9
0.4
Page Views
0.7
Page Copies
0.1
1.3
3.3
0.3
Page Prints
Lessons, Impressions, Questions
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Business program unexpected use of books
ebrary destination site with no marketing
Budgets and MARCs can be managed
Expertise of selectors works well with wisdom
of researchers
• Growing budget but how much?
• 10/10/Print-Copy? Leasing? Print PDA? ebrary
Profile?