1. Providing e-textbooks for students: Acquisitions and workflow issues.
Beth Bernhardt
Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications
UNC Greensboro

2. Background
UNCG received a grant from the State Library of North Carolina that will aid students at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by reducing their costs for required textbooks.
Fall Semester we purchased approximately 70 e-books for the cost of $8, The total potential savings for students (if all of them didn't purchase the textbook) would be $109,191.49

3. Collaborated with Bookstore
Ask for the list as soon as deadline for adoption has passed
Ask for updates each week

4. Spreadsheet is a mess

5. Searching Searched catalog to see if we own the e-book
Fall 2016: we searched over 2,000 titles
Searched in GOBI, our library’s wholesaler website
e-book availability
platform allows unlimited or nonlinear multiple users

6. Criteria for purchase Publisher and edition match
Platform allows unlimited user access
Allow download and printing of book chapters
Class size - We want to help more students
Price - Some ebooks are reasonably priced, others are not. Funding comes from the grant plus some matching library funds.

7. Workflow Order is placed with the vendor/publisher
s with links are received by the cataloger and acquisitions staff
Cataloger then adds the e-books to the Knowledge Base
Acquisition staff then pays the invoice
Acquisition staff checks to make sure the link is active
Acquisition staff then s the faculty member and adds links to the libguide

8. Post Purchase – Example Email
Dr. _______________
I just wanted to let you know that the library has the following assigned textbooks available through our e-book collections. If you have students that can't afford to purchase the textbooks this would be a good alternative.
THR201 - Clean House and Other Plays -
THR201 - Buried Child
THR201 - Backwards and Forwards - Library is ordering it.
THR201 - Six degrees of separation
THR201 - Laramie Project

9. Post-Purchase In the Fall, we sent 258 links
Professors overwhelmingly happy and excited:

10. Libguide

11. Lessons learned Get the bookstore spreadsheet as soon as possible.
Accurate and complete list from the bookstore is still a struggle.
Wait a few days after receiving the link from the vendor.
Working off one spreadsheet in Google Docs is way more efficient
Make sure the links work before sending out s.
A canned response is your friend when ing over 100 faculty

12. Questions? Beth Bernhardt
Assistant Dean for Collection Development and Scholarly Communications
UNC Greensboro