John Knowles

PDA The Queen's University Experience

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1. PDA The Queen's University Experience Acquisitions Group of Ireland May 23rd 2014
2. Two PDA exercises  September – November 2012 ◦ 10,367 titles loaded ◦ 602 purchased ◦ Suppliers: Coutts, Dawsons  September – December 2013 ◦ 6,384 titles loaded ◦ Assigned to 3 faculty funds ◦ 555 purchased ◦ Supplier: Coutts
3. Review of 2012 exercise  Using two suppliers problematic ◦ Different LC classifications assigned to suppliers ◦ Title overlap needed to be removed  Complicated by supplier use of own e-isbns  Impact on cataloguing needed to be considered  Selection criteria effective – carried though into 2013 exercise
4. Selection criteria (2013)  Year of publication ◦ 2012 onwards (2010 Medicine)  Pricing ◦ Maximum £100 (£200 Medicine)  LC ranges (assigned to 3 faculties) ◦ Adjustment needed for balanced nos of titles  Various series excluded ◦ e.g. Dummies, Law Express
5. Purchase options  Models Used ◦ Access model (credits) ◦ Single user (if access model not available)  Limited upgrading of purchases to multi user  Separate purchases needed for upgrades  Purchase trigger ◦ Purchase on second full view
6. Marc record load  Queen’s using Innovative Millennium ◦ ‘load profile’ feature used to upload records  Coutts records edited in upload ◦ Various Marc fields dropped or edited ◦ Marc 856 entries revised, no RDA fields used in 2013  Records tagged with faculty code ◦ Initially tagged as ‘unpurchased’
7. Record edits on purchase  Need to change tag to ‘purchased’ ◦ Delays in weekly batch lists  Some further cataloguing changes ◦ Need to integrate with workflow
8. Other issues noted  Titles with one view from previous exercise included as viewed  Pricing issues ◦ Pricing as at time of invoicing (not profile creation) ◦ Need to check for incorrect pricing  Closure of exercise ◦ No automatic closure – Coutts felt to be cautious; closing with unspent balance  Coutts unable to separate usage data for the two PDA exercises
9. Length of PDA exercises  2012 PDA ◦ 10,367 titles loaded ◦ 602 purchased over 4 weeks  2013 PDA ◦ 6,384 titles loaded ◦ 555 purchased over 11 weeks
10. Relevance of titles selected  Subject teams felt titles selected were relevant to research at Queen’s ◦ Limited availability of reading list material as expected  Usage compares well with eBooks selected by subject librarians ◦ High usage where undergraduate texts included
11. Going forward  Expectations that PDA exercises will continue ◦ Likely to be annual?  Initial exercises used supplementary funding  Future exercises likely to be supported from the existing book funds
12. Some other considerations  Who’s using the catalogue (and selecting)? ◦ Analytics age profiling suggests postgraduates and staff are the main catalogue users ◦ Approximately 25% in the 18-24 age group  Devices being used ◦ Tablet catalogue use still low – under 4%?  User preference still for print? ◦ 70% preference for print for Queen’s undergraduates given a straight choice