For over a decade, some academic libraries have been purchasing, rather than borrowing, recently published books requested by their patrons through interlibrary loan. These books had one circulation guaranteed and so appealed to librarians who were concerned about the large percentage of books selected and purchased by librarians but never checked out by their patrons. Early assessments of the projects indicated that patrons selected quality books that in many cases were cross disciplinary and covered emerging areas of scholarly interest. However, now we have a significant database of the ILL purchase records to compare these titles with books selected through normal methods. The projects described in this book present a powerful argument for involving patrons in the book selection process.

This book looks at patron-driven acquisitions for printed books at Purdue University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Illinois, as well as exploring new programs that allow patrons to select e-books or participate in other innovative ways in building the library collections.

This book was published as a special issue of Collection Management.

Contents

1. Patron-Driven Acquisitions: An Introduction and Literature Review ACQUIRING PRINT BOOKS THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN REQUESTS 2. Liberal Arts Books on Demand: A Decade of Patron-Driven Collection Development, Part 1 3. Science and Technology Books on Demand: A Decade of Patron-Driven Collection Development, Part 2 4. A Study of Circulation Statistics of Books on Demand: A Decade of Patron-Driven Collection Development, Part 3 5. Just How Right Are the Customers? An Analysis of the Relative Performance of Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loan Monograph Purchases 6. Own Not Loan: Different Request Sources for Purchase Lists 7. Just Passing Through: Patron-Initiated Collection Development in Northwest Academic Libraries ACQUIRING PATRON-SELECTED E-BOOKS 8. Resolving the Challenge of E-Books 9. Developing a Mul Demand-Driven Acquisition Model 10. Patron-Initiated Collection Development: Progress of a Paradigm Shift INNOVATIVE SERVICES/NEW DIRECTIONS 11. Point-of-Need Collection Development: The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) and a New System for Acquisitions and Interlibrary Loan Integrated Workflow and Collection Development 12. Want Buy-In? Let Your Students Do the Buying! A Case Study of Course-Integrated Collection Development 13. User-Driven Acquisitions: Allowing Patron Requests to Drive Collection Development in an Academic Library 14. Some Thoughts on Opportunities for Collection Development Librarians

Author Bio

Judith M. Nixon is currently the College of Education Librarian and responsible for building the education collection. Past positions at Purdue have involved her in collection development efforts in subjects as varied as nutrition and management. Her interest in patron-driven acquisition comes from her focus on providing the best services to users.

Robert S. Freeman i...