Open AccessBeguiled by Bananas: A Retrospective Study of the Usage & Breadth of Patron vs. Librarian Acquired EBook Collections
Peer ReviewedJason Price +12012Conference proceedings
Library
acquisitions
lore
contains
a
cautionary
tale
of
a
patron
in
a
demand-‐driven
environment
who spent
a
huge
chunk
of
the
library
budget
on
ebooks
about
bananas.
This
story
and
others
like
it
have been
used
to
perpetuate
the
argument
that
demand-‐driven
acquisition
will
result
in
collections
that don’t
appeal
to
a
broad
audience
or
are
otherwise
unbalanced.
We
apply
post-‐acquisition
usage
data from
multiple
libraries
to
test
the
hypothesis
that
patron-‐acquired
versus
librarian-‐acquired
collections have
different
usage
profiles.
In
addition,
we
analyze
their
subject
profiles
to
evaluate
collection
breadth and
balance.
Our
results
will
help
libraries
to
anticipate
the
effect
of
adding
a
demand-‐driven component
to
their
ebook
acquisition
strategy.
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