Gabrielle Wiersma

Patron‐Driven E‐book Solutions: Moving Beyond the Banana Books Incident

The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries participated in one of the first patron‐driven acquisition initiatives offered by netLibrary in the late 1990s. One outcome of this patron‐driven pilot was the banana books incident which has now become part of popular collection development lore. This incident will be described more fully and will highlight the difficulties of establishing demand‐driven models that are divorced from an institution’s approval plans. More recently, the University of Colorado has taken the lessons learned from the banana books snafu and has developed institution specific solutions for patron selection and use of e‐books. This paper will discuss strate‐ gies for integrating e‐books into subject and publisher based approval profiles with Ingram‐Coutts and the My iLi‐ brary platform. The paper will also address the complexities of customizing 70 profiles that are a combination of print, e‐preferred, e‐patron‐driven with Coutts and 30 selectors.

Exploring the Evidence in Evidence-Based Acquisition

ABSTRACT This article explores the University of Colorado (CU) Libraries’ experiences with evaluating a patron-driven (PDA) program with Kanopy and an evidence-based (EBA) program with Alexander Street for streaming videos. The article includes a thorough comparison of EBA and PDA models, workflows, and outcomes. Three separately administered libraries within the CU system support campuses of different budgets, student and faculty demographics, programs, and exposure to streaming collections. Lessons in implementing and assessing streaming videos at each library and across the consortia are shared along with details on how to implement similar analysis at other libraries.

Comparing Digital Apples and Oranges: A Comparative Analysis of e-Books Across Multiple Platforms

This session reported the findings of a comparative analysis of how e-books are represented across multiple platforms. In this session, the presenters shared the results of a study that examined how a sample of academic e-books are represented across different platforms. Topics of analysis included: the inclusion of various metadata, the visual presentation of e-book content, and variations in search results. This presentation also focused on the similarities and differences between e-book representation and what impact these various representations might have on users of academic e-books.

Report of the ALCTS Collection Evaluation & Assessment Interest Group. American Library Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, June 2014

This column will feature reports on what is going on in the rapidly changing, ever fascinating field of Technical Services. Each quarterly issue will consist of reports on new developments including integrated library systems, next generation catalogs, management of electronic resources; conference happenings and reports from professional meetings; whats new in technical services publications; as well as reports from technical services professionals on their research and projects. Such reports, announcements, and brief articles for consideration for inclusion should be sent to Barry B. Baker, Editor, ‘‘Technical Services Report,’’ Director of Libraries, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 162666, Orlando, FL 32816-2666.

Inconsistencies between Academic E-book Platforms: A Comparison of Metadata and Search Results

abstract: This article presents the results of a study of academic e-books that compared the metadata and search results from major academic e-book platforms. The authors collected data and performed a series of test searches designed to produce the same result regardless of platform. Testing, however, revealed metadata-related errors and significant variation in search results that could impact the user experience. This article describes how other libraries could perform this type of testing and how this information could be used to inform the selection of e-books that are available on multiple platforms.

Report of the ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Boston, January 2016

The ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Groups meeting included three presentations about data visualization, demand driven acquisitions, and analyzing circulation statistics.I...

Balancing Bananas: Collection Assessment of Patron‐Driven Acquisitions

The libraries in the University of Colorado (CU) System have been using patron‐driven acquisitions (PDA) to build a shared collection of e‐books for many years. This paper presents our experiences as both early adopters of PDA and libraries with longstanding PDA e‐book programs and describes an analysis of how PDA has impacted collections at each of the libraries in the CU System.

Excelling with Excel: Advanced Excel Functions for Collection Analysis

Microsoft Excel offers useful features and formulas that potentially allow acquisitions and collection development librarians to work smarter, not harder. Using journal cancellations as a workplace scenario, the presenters will provide attendees with ideas on how to organize data and complete basic calculations with Excel. The presenters provide examples on how to use several advanced Excel functions including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and select formulas. They describe the steps for importing and exporting data, combing and comparing data from different sources, and formatting data to communicate more effectively.