1. Introducing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) in an Academic Library: UCLan’s experience Caroline Gibson eResources Co-ordinator  cgibson1@uclan.ac.uk  01772 892280

2. Patron Driven Acquisition at UCLan: Reckless abandon or natural evolution? Why did we trial PDA in our library? How did we introduce PDA What have we discovered? Where do we go from here?

3. Why did we decide to trial PDA? National Student Survey “If you could change one thing about the University to improve your experience, what would it be?” “Add more books!” “Library books are not always available when you need them” “There's not many books available for my course.” “More books related to my course in the library, please!” “Better selection of books in library”

4. Choosing a supplier: Why Ebrary? Ebrary Academic Complete is our most popular eResource No need to add MARC records to our Library Catalogue Continued use after purchase Collection Management tool looked to be comprehensive and intuitive to use. Multiple PDA profiles could be created. Option to offer short-loans and/or outright purchase In 2011, we deposited £40,000 ($64,080) with Ebrary and also, £40,000 with Ebsco.

5. Targeting our funds CourseAllocation BA (Hons) Acting / BA (Hons) Dance, Performance and Teaching $6,000 BA (Hons) Archaeology$4,000 BA (Hons) Architectural Technology$8,000 BA (Hons) Criminology and BA (Hons) Criminal Justice$10,000 BA (Hons) History$8,000 BA (Hons) Journalism / BA (Hons) Sports Journalism$8,000 DHE PreReg Nursing$12,000 BA (Hons) Social Work$8,000

6. Creating our subject profiles

7. Proceeding with caution…. CourseAllocation# Titles in Profile BA (Hons) Acting / BA (Hons) Dance, Performance and Teaching $6,000366 BA (Hons) Archaeology$4,000123 BA (Hons) Architectural Technology$8,000262 BA (Hons) Criminology and BA (Hons) Criminal Justice $10,0004071* BA (Hons) History$8,0003253 BA (Hons) Journalism / BA (Hons) Sports Journalism $8,000183 DHE PreReg Nursing$12,0001334 BA (Hons) Social Work$8,000597

8. The big launch!

9. So, what happened?

10. Pattern of expenditure Course/Profile# titles purchased Average purchase price BA (Hons) Acting / BA (Hons) Dance, Performance and Teaching 47$102.94 BA (Hons) Archaeology 14$108.12 BA (Hons) Architectural Technology 61$111.06 BA (Hons) Criminology and BA (Hons) Criminal Justice 84$109.38 BA (Hons) History 90$75.96 BA (Hons) Journalism / BA (Hons) Sports Journalism 69$89.93 DHE PreReg Nursing 96$82.19 BA (Hons) Social Work 59$116.76

11. Purchase triggers

12. How do you measure success? COUNTER Book Report 2 Usage: A comparison Collection/PlatformCost per section/chapter access (2012 BR2) Ebrary Academic Complete£0.024 Ebrary McGraw Hill£0.29 Ebrary PDA titles£0.43 Collection/PlatformAverage # section/chapter requests per title (2012) Ebrary Academic Complete51 Ebrary McGraw Hill123 Ebrary PDA titles223 DawsonEra56 MyiLibrary142

13. What next? Ebsco PDA trial Deposited additional sum with Ebrary Communicating new, additional acquisition strategy to Schools Reckless abandon or natural evolution? Top-slicing school learning material budgets?

14. Introducing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) in an Academic Library: Blackburn College’s experience Philip Abbott HE Librarian  p.abbott@blackburn.ac.uk  01254 292269