1. Maria Savova
Collection Management
& Digital Integration Librarian
81st ABQLA Annual Conference – May 9, 2013

3.  Five undergraduate colleges and two graduate
universities
 ~ 6600 students, 800 faculty
 Multiple departments with the same subject
 Joint inter-collegial programs
 One Library – rates as "Medium Doctoral/Research
University" library
 ~ 1,000,000 print books
 ~ 400,000 e-books
 ~ 70,000 e-journals

4.  Why Course Adopted Books?
 Set-up of the service
 Usage statistics - print and e-books
 Look at the usage of the same titles in print and electronic format
 Comparison between CAB and non-CAB e-books
 Disciplinary specifics in usage of course adopted materials
attributed to Frank Kotsonis
Special Thanks to
Candace Lebel –
ILS Coordinator and
Systems Analyst

5.  Curriculum mapping and focus on specific local needs for
teaching and learning
 Small Approval Plan, University presses supplementary
AP
 Demand driven approach to Collection Development
 Increased reliance on resource sharing – Link+ and ILL
 Increased reliance on access rather than ownership

6.  Part of the curriculum
 Demand driven
 High usage
6%1%

7. Required and recommended
readings list provided by
faculty to the Campus
Bookstore.
Spring 2013 list contained
approx. 2700 titles
70% were already owned
30% were purchased ($35,000
- 7.7% of the pbook budget)
96 titles (~3.6%) duplicated
as e-books
68%
2%
26%
4%
Owned in print
Owned as e-book
Purchased in print only
Purchased in both print and as e-book

8.  New item status
 7-day short term loan
 not allowed on Link+
 unlimited renewals
 students can put holds
 CABs are shelved in the
stacks with the regular
collection
 Some titles are put on reserve by the professor – i.e.
reserves take precedence
 Some titles are library use only – no change

9. 0% 1%
6%
1%
10%
1% 1%
3% 3%
2%
16%
23%
2%
3% 3%
2%
5%
7%
3%
4%
1%
4%
1%
2% 2% 2%
11%
1% 1%
3% 2% 2%
12%
28%
2%
0%
3% 4%
2%
9%
1%
5%
2%
8%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
All CABs

10. 56%
29%
15%
52%
33%
15%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
AH SS ST
All CABs

11.  58% of the print Course Adopted
Books have circulated at least once
Jan-Apr 2013
 In comparison – 60% of the print book
collection of the Library has circulated
at least once during its whole shelf life

12. 0.53
1.15
2.09
1.30
2.87
5.67 5.65
2.77
1.04
2.33
1.92 1.92
2.71
8.40
2.58 2.48
2.05 1.98
0.86
2.26 2.00
2.96
0.00
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
7.00
8.00
9.00
Turnaround
Turnaround

13. 1.94
2.67
2.32
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
AH SS ST
Turnaround
Turnaround

14.  96 titles (3.6% of the
list) – duplicated in
both print and
electronic format
 Unique opportunity to
try and understand
students' format
preferences
 Sample was not
random – based on e-
book availability from
EBL and Ebrary
68%
2%
26%
4%
Owned in print
Owned as e-book
Purchased in print only
Purchased in both print and as e-book

15. 52%
33%
15%
42%
48%
10%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
AH SS ST
All CABs CABs p+e

16. 10%
85%
5%
42%
48%
10%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
AH SS ST
Total e-books in the collection CABs p+e

17. 18%
11%
17%
54%
Comparison in usage of print and e-CABs
Not used Only p- Only e- Both p- and e-

18. 71%
66%
29%
34%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
e-CABs usage p-CABs usage
Used Not used

19. 50%
18%
50%
100%
13%
29%
0% 33%
17%
0%
0%
50%
23%
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
Used Not used

20. 87%
80%
70%
13%
20%
30%
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
AH SS ST
Used Not used

21. 73%
70% 70% 71%
83%
61%
20%
66%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
AH SS ST Total
E- used P- used

23. Print books:
o length of loan
period
o # of circulations
in days
o # of renewals
o # of times the
book is re-
shelved – i.e.
internal use
E-books
 Ebrary
o # of sessions
o # of section requests
 EBL
o Browsing - # of users and
minutes
o Reading online - # of users
and minutes
o Downloading - # of users
and days

24. 1.77
0.84
1.17
5.27
4.86 4.97
7.57
0.00
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
7.00
8.00
Link+
requests
Checkouts
Feb-Apr
Renewals
Feb-Apr
Browse
online (# of
users)
Read online
(# of users)
Download (#
of users)
Ebrary
sessions
PRINT BOOKS E-BOOKS

25. 21
25
16
357
20
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
Average number of days borrowed (incl. Link+)
Average number of days borrowed from the
Library
Average # of days download
Average number of min reading online
Average number of min browsing online

26. 68%
2%
26%
4%
Owned in print
Owned as e-book
Purchased in print only
Purchased in both print and as e-book

27. 141 COURSE ADOPTED BOOKS IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT
88 from EBL
(~60% of all EBL e-books) 53 from Ebrary
(0.08% of all Ebrary e-books)
17
71
Available only as e-book
Available also in print
28
25
Available only as e-book
Available also in print

28. 48 (55%)
7 (12%)
55 (37%)
40 (45%)
53 (88%)
93 (63%)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
CAB non-CAB All EBL e-books
used not used

29. 3.60
9.84
3.65
257.21
4.31
18.41
1.71
0.86
1.00
0.00
1.50
1.50
0.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 250.00 300.00
Browse - average user count per book
Browse - average min per book
Read online - average user count per book
Read online - average min per book
Download - average user count per book
Download - average # of days per book
non-CAB (7) CAB (48)

30. 28%
98% 98%
72%
2% 2%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
CAB (53) non-CAB (65,103) Total (65,156)
not used used

31. 6.42
123.66
2.14
39.48
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Average # of sessions per book Average # of section requests per book
CAB (38) non-CAB (1328)

32.  More data analysis - subject and disciplinary
analysis of all CABs, comparison with Link+
requests, including data from other e-book
providers, etc.
 Expanding the service to items on syllabi and
reading lists
 Expanding the physical reserve area and placing all
CABs on reserve

33. QUESTIONS?
maria_savova@cuc.claremont.edu