Random Ramblings-Patron-Driven Acquisitions, eBooks, and Economic Self-Interest

A Novel Multiple Attribute Decision Making Framework based on Hamacher Operations in Patron Driven Acquisitions Mode of Library Management

As a fuzzy set extension, the hesitant set is effectively used to model situations where it is allowable to determine several possible membership degrees of an element to a set due to the ambiguity between different values. Some new hesitant fuzzy operational rules are introduced based on the Hamacher t-conorm and t-norm, whereby we present a multi attribute decision making method under hesitan...

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...

Effective Selectors? Interlibrary Loan Patrons as Monograph Purchasers: A Comparative Examination of Price and Circulation-Related Performance

In the library literature, a great deal of interest in patron-driven collection development has recently been expressed, especially in those programs that link acquisitions with interlibrary loan. However, the implementation of such programs has been limited, at least in part because of concerns over the potential for wasteful spending. The authors will attempt to address this common concern by...

Economics and Conflict: the Dark Side of Self-interest and Its Governance as Economic Activities

Con‡ict and appropriation are costly activities that are economically signi…cant, yet the assumption of perfect and costless enforcement of property rights in much of economic research has limited their systematic study. Con‡ict follows directly from the methodological principle of self-interest and taking it into account in modeling leads to very di¤erent …ndings than in its absence: in straig...