Patron-Driven Acquisitions/Demand-Driven Acquisitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The live discussion took place August 5 and 6, 2015. Read the discussion messages.

While PDA/DDA programs are not new, they are still developing and there is a lot of curiosity about them on the part of librarians and libraries that have not used them before.  This e-forum is intended to be a platform for current PDA/DDA users to share their experiences and for nonusers to ask questions. These prompts started discussion:

  • Which should we use?  Profiles or ollections?
  • How does PDA/DDA work with discovery?
  • What is your experience with mediated vs unmediated purchasing?
  • Sharing general concerns and experiences
  • How do you assess your PDA program?

What Is an e-Forum?

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Learning Outcomes

For practitioners and novices alike to learn from each other.

Who Should Attend

Anyone with an interest in the topic can benefit from this session and is welcome to participate.

Hosts

John Sandstrom is currently an Associate Professor and Acquisitions Librarian at New Mexico State University (NMSU) after having roamed through Academic, Public, Government, and Special libraries as well as a stint working for Baker and Taylor.  As Acquisitions Librarian he worked on the implementation and assessment of a PDA/DDA pilot project at NMSU and is overseeing a major expansion of the program in the next academic year.

Samantha Rich is the Assessment & Data Management Librarian at NMSU. She collaborated with John on the assessment of the PDA pilot project. Samantha graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science in 2014 and is still learning a lot about libraries, including PDA.

Registration

Cost

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Contact

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