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Description:More books are published every year, with prices increasing, 3.5 percent this year. Even with your best processes of profiling, reviews, and alerts, acquisition is speculative at best. One study showed that nearly half of print books don't circulate after 1 years in the stacks! With demand-driven acquisition of ebooks you will deliver instant access to a wider array of books, and stay within your library's budget. With 211 questions peppered throughout, this LITA Guide will help you make decisions and develop a DDA ebook program that's right for your library. You'll get perspective on such topics as: Prioritizing goals to better negotiate with vendorsSample workflow with library services provider and ebook aggregatorManaging trade-offs between staff time and direct costsFactors in policy decisions, such as single or multiple vendors, short term loans and mediating purchases.Using MARC records and discovery servicesVendor reporting, cost per use, processing costs, and other metrics for assessmentHow to incorporate DDA titles into your catalog. Even a small-scale DDA ebook program will be a valuable supplement to your collection.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Getting Started with Demand-Driven Acquisitions for E-Books: A Lita Guide. To get started finding Getting Started with Demand-Driven Acquisitions for E-Books: A Lita Guide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 120

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: ALA Techsource

Release: 2015

ISBN: 0838913237

Description: More books are published every year, with prices increasing, 3.5 percent this year. Even with your best processes of profiling, reviews, and alerts, acquisition is speculative at best. One study showed that nearly half of print books don't circulate after 1 years in the stacks! With demand-driven acquisition of ebooks you will deliver instant access to a wider array of books, and stay within your library's budget. With 211 questions peppered throughout, this LITA Guide will help you make decisions and develop a DDA ebook program that's right for your library. You'll get perspective on such topics as: Prioritizing goals to better negotiate with vendorsSample workflow with library services provider and ebook aggregatorManaging trade-offs between staff time and direct costsFactors in policy decisions, such as single or multiple vendors, short term loans and mediating purchases.Using MARC records and discovery servicesVendor reporting, cost per use, processing costs, and other metrics for assessmentHow to incorporate DDA titles into your catalog. Even a small-scale DDA ebook program will be a valuable supplement to your collection.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Getting Started with Demand-Driven Acquisitions for E-Books: A Lita Guide. To get started finding Getting Started with Demand-Driven Acquisitions for E-Books: A Lita Guide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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