4. QuickSearch Focus Groups
@ John Tyler C.C.
Why focus groups?
Feedback from all types of users
Specific user experiences
Lively discussion of service and perceived
usage
Insight to help the library make decisions
for future promotional and instructional
use.
5. Focus Group Planning
Scheduling
Time preferences
Advertising
Library Web page, Facebook, and blog
John Tyler intranet page and calendar
SDV 100 and counselors
Discipline-targeted materials
6. Focus Group Organization
Define your goals
Demo
Discussion
Capture feedback
Tips
Provide documentation
Do not lead the discussion
Do not give up
Offer incentives
9. 2013 STEM-H E-books
Thesecontracts were made possible
through the support of Governor
McDonnell, Secretary of Education
Laura Fornash, the State Council of
Higher Education of Virginia, and
funding appropriated by the General
Assembly. We are very grateful to all of
them for their support.
10. VIVA Academic E-books
RFI Sub-committee
Tara Cassidy (VCCS), chair
Erin Crane (Liberty)
Anna Creech (UR)
Dawn Dawson (UVA)
Liz Kocevar-Weidinger (Longwood)
Meg Manahan (GMU)
Ex Officio: Kathy Perry (VIVA)
Ex Officio: Amanda Echterling (JMU)
11. Who Gets What?
Over +2,700 frontlist Available from your
titles from 2 library catalog
collections
More titles will be Bothcollections allow
released over the unlimited concurrent
course of the year user access.
12. 2013 Subject
Collections Title list
1. Behavioral Sciences
2. Biomedical and Life The Springer
Science collection will
3. Computer Science total +2,000 titles.
4. Earth and
Environmental Science
13. Purchase a personal,
printed softcover
copy for your own
use.
14. ScienceDirect
2013 Collection
Spans the science,
technology, and
health sciences
disciplines
Title List
ScienceDirect 2013
will have 700 titles
16. What is DDA?
DDA service allows us to display a pre-
selected pool of e-books in our library
catalog without buying them in
advance
Users have on-demand access to any
DDA pool title they find
VIVA will automatically purchase only
high-demand e-books from this pool
after a specific number of uses is
achieved VIVA-wide.
17. VIVA 12-Month DDA Pilot
Pool is limited to STEM-H content only
Exclusively VIVA-funded
Will allow VCCS patrons access to several
thousand e-book titles via their home
library catalogs, and have VIVA pay only
for titles that are used.
18. Pilot Selection Model –
STEM-H Pool of Titles
1. There is no limit to the number of users
that can access a DDA pool e-book
simultaneously.
2. Users have a free 5-minute browse
period for any DDA pool e-book.
3. Browsing the e-book for more than 5
minutes, downloading, or printing
triggers a short-term loan (STL).
19. Pilot Selection Model –
Short Term Loans
4. Each STL incurs a small cost charged to
VIVA, not the user’s library.
5. Once a user triggers a STL, that user has
access to that e-book for 7 days.
6. A single user is limited to 25 STLs within a
24-hour period.
20. What Will STL Let Me Do?
Read the e-book online or offline for 7 days
Email up to 5%
Print up to 20%
Save chapters in PDF format
Download complete e-book in PDF or EPUB
format to any device that supports Adobe
Digital Editions or the Bluefire Reader app.
21. Pilot Acquisitions Model –
Purchases
7. Enough STLs for the same e-book from
the DDA pool triggers VIVA to purchase
that e-book.
8. A VIVA-purchased e-book becomes an
owned title held in common.
22. Pilot Acquisitions Model -
Owned Titles
9. An owned title come with a generous
annual STL allowance.
10. Users now have a 10-minute browse
period before using the STL allowance.
11. The annual STL allowance automatically
renews on the anniversary date of a
purchase.
23. Pilot Outcomes
At NH 2014, what will we have?
New STEM-H e-books selected by our
users
A unique DDA model
Data
The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is the consortium of the nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of Virginia's state-assisted colleges and universities, as well as 34 private, nonprofit institutions and the Library of Virginia.
Service is currently enabled for all 2005 imprints and forthcoming for 2013.
DDA is cost-effective. It provides access to titles when they are needed, as they are needed.
The pool is limited to roughly 5,000 STEM-H published titles. EBL does not receive identifying information about individual users from our systems.
BluefireReader app supports iPads, iPhones, Android devices, and the Kindle Fire.
There are no additional charges forowned titles.
At the end of the pilot, VIVA will do an analysis of the number of STLs and purchases generated by each member institution in order to understand acquisition and use patterns, both VIVA-wide and at the institution level.
