Abstract
Building on Arizona State University's patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) initiative in 2009, the Arizona Universities Library Consortium, in partnership with the Ingram Content Group, created a cooperative patron-driven model to acquire electronic books (e-books). The model provides the opportunity for faculty and students at the universities governed by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) to access a core of e-books made accessible through resource discovery services and online catalogs. These books are available for significantly less than a single ABOR university would expend for the same materials. The patron-driven model described is one of many evolving models in digital scholarship, and, although the Arizona Universities Library Consortium reports a successful experience, patron-driven models pose questions to stakeholders in the academic publishing industry.
Highlights
Building on Arizona State University’s patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) initiative in 2009, the Arizona Universities Library Consortium, in partnership with the Ingram Content Group, created a cooperative patron-driven model to acquire electronic books (e-books)
The model provides the opportunity for faculty and students at the universities governed by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) to access a core of e-books made accessible through resource discovery services and online catalogs
These books are available for significantly less than a single ABOR university would expend for the same materials
Summary
The Arizona Universities Library Consortium (AULC) is a consortium serving the libraries of the universities governed by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR): Arizona State University (ASU), Northern Arizona University (NAU) and the University of Arizona (UA). To the average time from book receipt in the ASU Libraries to the first checkout first checkout was was 326 days. The ASU Libraries partnered with the Ingram Content Group to create the first e-book preferred plan allowing users to select books. This kind of plan is commonly termed patron-driven acquisition. In the ASU plan, MARC records matching the profiled books are streamed into the online public catalog (OPAC) for community discovery; books are neither automatically shipped nor invoiced. The p-PDA part of the plan required cooperative programming efforts between Ingram and ASU Libraries information technology personnel, and was implemented during August 2010. 2009 remains less than one year’s expenditure for the print approval book plan in 2008
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