1. Let the Patron Drive: Purchase on Demand of E-books Jonathan Nabe Andrea Imre Southern Illinois University Carbondale NASIG, June 4, 2010

2. Background: How We Got in Fortune: – Greater Western Library Alliance/MyiLibrary offer, 2008 – End of year money Philosophy: – Just in time vs. just in case, patron-driven collection development

3. Collection Development Coutts collection (over 230,000 titles from more than 100 publishers) Create a title list, using multiple factors: – LC Class – Publisher – Publication Year – Price – Readership level – Title

4. Collection Development OASIS is available to periodically select new titles Can upload OPAC holdings to eliminate duplication of print titles

7. Acquisition License agreement – Digital Rights Management – Unlimited # of concurrent users* – Interlibrary Loan Deposit Account: amount determined by institution (with minimum threshold for consortia discount) Accessed titles charged against that account; started at 2, then 3, accesses Monthly usage reports and invoices – Purchased titles attached to PO

8. Cataloging Evaluation of record quality Customization as needed Bulk loading batches of records – Eliminating duplicate print & online purchases – Eliminating duplication of various online versions (Springer vs. MyiLibrary) Currently 8456 MyiLibrary titles via the library catalog Loading new batches of records for books published since last load End of contract adjustment – only purchased records remain

12. Assessment Data from invoices and COUNTER reports $54,000; 470 titles bought $115.30 average price per title 748 unique IP addresses, including proxy & VPN Average of 95 pages viewed/purchased title 235 titles accessed after initial purchase Additional uses of 1116 non-purchased titles

13. Subject Breakdown

14. Electronic VS Print During same time period, 16,893 print books purchased – Average circulation.33 For Ebooks in PDA account – 100% Circulation – Average number of logins / purchased title = 6.57

15. Duplicated print holdings Uploading of catalog holdings results in reduced duplication Buying print for a nonpurchased but available ebook still possible Of 470 purchased, 91 print holdings – Average print circulation: 3 – 12 print books with 0 circulation (13%)

16. Electronic VS Print Pricing – For those 91 books, ebooks cost twice the print price Is it worth it? – You’re only paying for things with demonstrated demand – Remote access – Concurrent access – Enhanced functionality – Take into account what you are not paying for:

17. Workflow/Staffing Impact Selection Ordering Invoicing and payment Receiving Binding and labeling Cataloging Shelving Circulating Preservation

18. Issues Moving Forward DRM – Classroom/reserves use Reader support issues – New technologies (ebook readers, limited download options) – Browser problems Discovery options – WorldCat, Google, Library Catalog Interlibrary Loan Other ebook purchasing options…may be better Archival copy

19. Questions? Contact info: Jonathan Nabe, jnabe@lib.siu.edujnabe@lib.siu.edu Andrea Imre, aimre@lib.siu.eduaimre@lib.siu.edu