Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

Not Your Mother’s PDA The transition from PDA pilot to full acquisitions integration Charleston Conference 2012 Presented by: Bruce Fyfe (Western) Erin Gallagher (Ingram) Nicole Nolan (Western) Harriet Rykse (Western) Yves Vanier (Ingram) Nazi Torabi (Western)

Today’s Agenda PDA at Western o Timeline of PDA o Incorporating into acquisitions Vendor perspective Results to date Next steps Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

PDA at Western Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston EBL pilot for purchase of ebooks EBL expanded to include PDA Analysis of EBL pilot results and report with recommendations Ingram pilot begins Analysis of Ingram pilot & report with recommendations OCUL PDA 2006 First EBL ebooks purchased at Western PDA process part of normal workflow

PDA as regular acquisition What Western needed to fold PDA into regular acquisitions process: PDA records based on existing profiles Duplicates avoided PDA Records loaded weekly PDA invoicing received weekly PDA preferred format for all electronic books Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

Workflow for PDA Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

Vendor’s Perspective Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

Partnership with Western o Modified profile methodology. o Fully integrated with existing Approval profiles. o Profiles organized by subject area. No need to reinvent the wheel…

Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012 Innovative profile functionality o Existing Approval profiles generate PDA output. o Allows for individual selector control over PDA content through profile parameters. PDA Match Publisher Readership Level Subject area

Title matches profile on slip -print Sent as slip notification – no wait period Not Purchased - sent to PDA if electronic becomes available Title matches profile on approval - print Matches publisher supported by MyiLibrary Put on virtual hold shelf for 90 days (available on Oasis) If electronic comes within 90 days, send to PDA. If electronic does not come within 90 days, move to approval shelf. Title matches profile on slip or approval - electronic Sent to PDA Ingram Workflow for PDA Purchased by Selector Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

Challenges for Ingram PDA Publishers?Profile Analysis 95 Publishers identified and added

Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012 Challenges for Ingram How long should titles wait for ebook on On Hold for Alternate Editions? Oasis display of PDA titles?

Assessment Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

Overview Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012 May to October 2012 Records loaded4226 Titles purchased 283 total 96 from collection loaded since May Total spent$29,197 Average cost per book$103

Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012 * * There was a backlog of records to load at the beginning of June which resulted in an exceptionally large record load in the first two weeks of June. Monthly Purchase Rate

Usage Snapshot Usage between June 2010 to mid- Sept 2012 for all purchased PDA titles (n=1223) Title used at least once after purchase (n=1049): 86% Title not used after purchase (n=174): 14% Average number of uses: 6.4 Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

PDA by Faculty FacultyPDA loaded PDA purchased % PDA purchased Medicine % Law % Information & Media Studies % Social Sciences % Education % Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

PDA by Faculty FacultyPDA loaded PDA purchased % PDA purchased Health Sciences % Science % Business % Engineering % Music % Arts & Humanities % Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

User Survey Overview 30% response rate User can answer survey more than once Started in April so undergraduate representation is limited

Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012 User Survey Overview Preference by faculty affiliation Faculty affiliation% prefer electronic% prefer print% depends Law (n=5)60%0%20% Engineering (n=22)55%14%27% Business (n=22)45%14%32% Medicine and Dentistry (n=31)45%19%35% Science (n=24)42%29%25% Education (n=24)38%25%38% Health Sciences (n=32)34%22%34% Social Science (n=113)19%42%32% Information and Media Studies (n=51)18%29%49% Arts & Humanities (n=104)13%42%36% Music (n=8)13%25%50%

User Survey Overview Preference by role Status % prefer electronic% prefer print% Depends Undergraduate (n=94)33%26%34% Graduate Student (n= 213)24%37%31% Faculty Member (n=108)20%32%42% Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

User survey comments Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012 “Electronic books are a real pain to read! It's impossible to "flip through" the book, and clicking from one electronic page to another takes about twice as long as turning pages in a real book.” “... electronic books are incredibly useful in terms of their ability to allow more than one patron to make use of the material at the same time.” “I think integration with e-reading technologies available on iPad and Kindle (and others) would make e-book reading infinitely better.” “Print is preferable for in-depth reading, while electronic books are acceptable for quick browsing”

User survey comments Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012 “It depends”

Rethinking our collecting philosophy Tweaking profiles Allocation of funds Challenges and Opportunities Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

Next Steps Continue assessment Continue refining profiles Continue working with Ingram to ensure reports provide information we need Advocate for download options Advocate for access from the publisher’s site Not Your Mother’s PDA Charleston 2012

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