1. Putting the Patron in the Driver’s Seat:PDA in Theory and Practice Rick Anderson Associate Director Scholarly Resources & Collections

2. Two Broad Categories of “Collection” Unique/Curatorial (Special Collections) Orientation: Global General/Functional (Circulating Collections) Orientation: Local

3. How Do We Build Collections? Guessing what patrons will want Buying documents based on those guesses Describing the documents (proxy docs) Organizing them

4. Alternatives Share. (Ugh.) Books: expose [everything we can] and buy only when the patron points Ebooks (MyiLibrary, NetLibrary, EBL, Ebrary, etc.) Print books (LightningSource, OUP, etc.) Print books (Espresso Book Machine) Journals: by-the-drink purchasing Remember: patrons don’t need journals; they need articles This is the opposite of the Big Deal: it’s the Tiny Deal Problem: publishers don’t want to sell that way

5. The Unattainable Ideal (“North Star” Approach) Every book ever published is easily and immediately findable Any book ever published can be purchased by library for patron immediately upon realization of need (purchase or borrow) Every article... Every data set... This ideal does not have to be attainable in order to be useful.

6. Problems Budget management “Every book”? Come on. What if they select garbage? “What about my job?”

7. U of U – Philosophical Context Access to the river, not the pond Access to whatever/wherever/whenever/however the patron wants

9. Adopted e-first/patron-first guidelines

10. PDA experiments:

11. MyiLibrary

12. Ebrary

13. EBL

14. NetLibrary

17. Books from other vendors are routed to OCLC for cataloging and processing, and then come to us shelf-ready

20. Too few front-list titles available as ebooks

21. Too little money for true, comprehensive PDA

22. EspressNet metadata = crap

24. Contact: Rick Anderson University of Utah rick.anderson@utah.edu