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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.

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Demand-driven acquisitions (DDA), also known as patron-driven acquisitions (PDA), turn the entire process of book selection and purchasing on its head by putting library users in charge. And it's not only this upside-down selection method that needs examination but also the new workflow processes that are involved. Book vendors and publishers haven't made things any easier for librarians and readers by providing/requiring technological and legal roadblocks to the process. For those librarians who have not jumped on the demand-driven access bandwagon, and even for those who have, this work by Arndt (associate director, library resources & administration, Dickinson Coll.) organizes the considerations that should be addressed. Deliberating relevant questions and backing up the answers with research, this title provides a framework for thinking through the concept and workflow of DDA. While comparable to David Swords' Patron-Driven Acquisitions and Judith M. Nixon's Patron-Driven Acquisitions, this work stands alone as a recent review of the thought and literature. VERDICT Essential reading for academic and public librarians.-Margaret Sylvia, St. Mary's Univ. Lib., San Antonio © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.