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Collections in Transition: User Driven Acquisitions Leslie J. Reynolds Interim Associate Dean for User Services Texas A&M University Libraries
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This presentation reviewed user-driven acquisitions in general and how the collection development practices and policies at Texas A&M University have shifted to address them.
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Collections in Transition:User Driven Acquisitions
Leslie J. ReynoldsInterim Associate Dean for User Services
Texas A&M University Libraries
Collections in transition
• Use studies: the long tail?• Interlibrary loan: borrow or buy?
Collections in transition
• Increasing Customer Expectations• Technological Advances• Fiscal Realities• Internal Funding Models
Funding Structure
Librarian Mediated to Customer Initiated
• User-Driven • Books on Demand• Patron-Driven• Patron-initiated Purchasing• Demand-Driven• Purchase-on-Demand• On-demand Information delivery• Get It For Me• Just-In-Time
Give them what they want. Now.
If they ask for it, they’ll use it.
Get them what need.
Build for the future scholars.
PDA for eBooks
Recognized Value
References• Association of Research Libraries. 2009. ARL Statistics, 2007-2008.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arlstat08.pdf.• Hodges, Dracine, Cindy Preston, and Marsha J. Hamilton. 2010. Patron-initiated Collection
Development: Progress of a Paradigm Shift. Collection Management. 35(3/4):208-221.• Jones, Douglas. 2011. On-Demand Information Delivery: Integration of Patron-Driven
Acquisition into a Comprehensive Information Delivery System. Journal of Library Administration. 51(7/8):764-776.
• Kent, Allen. 1979. Use of library materials: The University of Pittsburgh study. New York: M. Dekker.
• Nixon, Judith M., Robert S. Freeman, and Suzanne M. Ward. 2010. Patron-Driven Acquisitions: An Introduction and Literature Review. Collection Management. 35(3/4):119-124
• Reynolds, Leslie J. Carmelita Pickett, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Jane Smith, Jeanne Harrell, and Sandra Tucker. 2010. User-Driven Acquisitions: Allowing Patron Requests to Drive Collection Development in an Academic Library. Collection Management. 3(3/4)5:244-254.
• Schroeder, Rebecca. 2012. When Patrons call the shots: Patron-driven acquisition at Brigham Young University. Collection Building. 31(1):11-14.
• vanDuinkerken, Wyoma, Jane Smith, Jeanne Harrell, Leslie J. Reynolds, Sandra Tucker, and Esther Carrigan. 2008. Creating a flexible fund structure to meet the needs and goals of the library and its users. Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services. 32(3/4): 142-149.
• Walters, William H. 2012. Patron-Driven Acquisition and the Educational Mission of the Academic Library. Library Resources & Technical Services. 56(3):199-213.
