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E-Book Tune-Up: Maintaining, Sustaining And Expanding Your Demand Driven E-Book Program, Caroline Mills, Janet Nazar, Michelle Desilets, Nathan Carlson
E-Book Tune-Up: Maintaining, Sustaining And Expanding Your Demand Driven E-Book Program, Caroline Mills, Janet Nazar, Michelle Desilets, Nathan Carlson
Caroline Mills
Just like a car, an e-book program needs continuous maintenance in order to run smoothly. What can we do to structure our e-book collections to better meet institutional need? Many factors come into play in building a successful demand driven acquisition (DDA) program. Student preferences, actual use, collection development, and faculty/staff education and support are all important aspects of maintaining and sustaining a DDA program. This paper describes how the Furman University Library in South Carolina and the Metropolitan State University Library (Metro State) in Minnesota assessed and fine-tuned their respective DDA programs and the results of these changes.