Assessing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) adoption among Malaysian academic libraries

Shared Patron-Driven Acquisition Within a Consortium: the OCUL PDA Pilot

Patron‐Driven Acquisition Practices of U.S. Research Libraries: East vs. West

During the past few years, Patron Driven Acquisition, or PDA, has become the catchword at library conferences, increasingly promoted by some as the answer to shrinking budgets and the new normal for developing library col‐ lections. On one level, the debate over PDA is just an extension of the old question of just in time versus just in case collecting; however, technological developments have ...

Patron-Driven Acquisition: An Introduction and Literature Review

Patron Driven Acquisition of Publisher-hosted Content: Bypassing DRM

The evidence is in: patron-driven acquisition promotes collection use. Patron-driven purchased eBooks were used three times more often and by more than twice as many people in a 2009 controlled retrospective study across five libraries on the EBL platform. Once seen as a heretical approach, the patron-driven model has now been embraced by all of the major eBook aggregators. Library interest and...

An Acquisition Rate Model for Academic Libraries

With circulation assumed to imply use and thus need, multiple regression analysis was employed to determine which variables best correlate with circulation. Three were identified: number of books added; full-time equivalent size of student body; and undergraduate and graduate courses offered. A "T'' test showed no significant difference between the means of per student circulation differentiate...