Patron-Driven Acquisition of E-Books Satisfies Users’ Needs While Also Building the Library’s Collection

Give 'Em What They Want: A One-Year Study of Unmediated Patron-Driven Acquisition of e-Books

Karen S. Fischer is Collection Analysis Librarian, Michael Wright is Interim Associate University Librarian, Collections and Scholarly Communication, Hope Barton is Associate University Librarian, Main Library Services, and Edward Shreeves is Associate University Librarian, Collections and Scholarly Communication (Retired) in Main Library at University of Iowa. Kathleen Clatanoff is Collection ...

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...

Patron-Driven Acquisition: An Introduction and Literature Review

Language acquisition also needs non-connectionist models.

Patron Driven Acquisition: A Model for Providing Complete Access to Electronic Content While Limiting Costs For Libraries

Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) is a hot topic in today’s library world. Driven by stagnant or dwindling library budgets, libraries – at first in the US, and now internationally – have been exploring new ways to offer their patrons – i.e. library users – access to the broadest range of high-quality content for research and teaching. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of academic co...