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Patron-Driven Acquisitions - Current Successes and Future Directions (Paperback)
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Patron-Driven Acquisitions - Current Successes and Future Directions (Paperback)
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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.
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