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Good PDA or Good PR? - assessing PDA activity in the academic Good PDA or Good PR? - assessing PDA activity in the academic library Briony Heyhoe-Pullar – University of Huddersfield Steve Sharp – University of Leeds

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Good PDA or Good PR? - assessing PDA activity in the academic

Good PDA or Good PR? - assessing PDA activity in the

academic library

Briony Heyhoe-Pullar – University of Huddersfield

Steve Sharp – University of Leeds

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Background to PDA at Huddersfield

Between April 2010 to April 2014, various PDA suppliers have been used

Supplier No. of titles bought No. of titles imported     Dawson 2010 111  Dawson 2011 45  Dawson 2012 131 4921Coutts 454 2559Ebrary 57 53,738EBL 637 132,914Total 1279

 61,218 

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Why EBL?

PDA with EBL ran from 7th February to 13th April 2014

Advantages of EBL include:• Existing Proquest customer so activation of MARC records is easier and

quicker• Like EBL model which includes a free of charge 5min browse period with

unlimited page turns• Library decides on the number of STLs to trigger a purchase• Library can access spend reports and see which titles have been purchased

through LibCentral• Flexible content parameters for each subject • EBL gathers data on who is using the titles

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Questionnaire

The 5 questions we asked were:

• Subject area• School• Readership level• Do you have a preference for reading electronic or print books?

(with an option for them to say either p, e, or no preference)• Will you be accessing this book on a mobile device- if yes, what

type?

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The set up

• All subjects were included, but only titles published after 01/01/10• Law and computing titles were to be published after 01/01/13• Maximum list price was set at £120• Readership levels were undergraduates and postgraduates• We opted for 2 short term loans before a purchase is triggered• We set the short term loan length at 1 day• We marketed this round of PDA, which we have never done in the past

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What we achieved

• Spent the money in 9 weeks• Money spent equated to 20% of the book fund• 6071 titles were accessed• 637 of these were purchases, the remainder were short

term loans

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Data analysis

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Dewey range

001-099

100-199

200-299

300-399

400-499

500-599

600-699

700-799

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900-999

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Data analysis

300-309

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320-329

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350-359

360-369

370-379

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Data analysis

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Percentage by School

Applied Sciences

Art Design and Architecture

Business

Computing and Engineering

Education and Professional Development

Human and Health Sciences

Music Humanities and Media

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Data analysis

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PDA use

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Data analysis

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Taught Post Graduate

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Undergraduate Year 2

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Data analysis

No preference Print Ebook Both0

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Yes No0

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Data analysis

Android iPhone Blackberry Phone iPad Kindle Tablet0

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Data analysis

Applied Sciences

Art Design and Architecture

Business

Computing and Engineering

Education and Professional Development

Human and Health Sciences

Music Humanities and Media

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Data analysis

1999 2000 2002 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20140

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150

200

250

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Year of publication

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Recommendations for PDA 2014/15

• PDA to be added to the suite of services that the library offers

• To top slice 25% of the book fund for PDA

• To reduce the years available in the selection pool to increase the longevity of PDA over the year and to leave the subject selection as broad as possible

• To review the number of rentals that trigger a purchase

• To keep EBL as our PDA supplier for 2014/15