Patron-Driven Acquisitions:Inftegrafting Print Books with eBooks

摘要

Introduction and Background Cowles Library at Drake University has had a successful eBook patron-driven acquisitions program in place - using E-Book Library (EBL) - since fall 2009. We are a small, private, academic library with 4623 FTE, and we're one of the first academic libraries in the Midwest to employ PDA. We deem the program to be successful because we have broadened access to mate- rials (with 124,000+ titles available via our catalog) at the point of need at a minimal cost. Because the value of eBooks available to our users is over $10million, it would obviously not be feasible to purchase these titles "just-in-case." Between short-term loans and purchases, we have spent a total ot 37k over the last three years on this project, which averages slightly over $12k per year.