James DooleyUniversity of California, Merced2011 Charleston Conference

• Opened in 2005

• 5,200 students

90%

10%

Collection

Electronic Other

80%

20%

Collection Budget

Electronic Other

Physical Virtual

Patron Selection Plans

EBL Full Catalog

• 3 short term loans

• Purchase on 4th access

MyiLibrary

• Limited by publisher

• Purchase on 2nd access

Subscription

ebrary Academic Complete

UC Systemwide Packages

Springer

Wiley

96%

4%

EBL

Visible Titles (150,000)

Browsed Titles (6,000)

19%

8%

73%

Springer (22,000 purchased)

Not accessed

Accessed more than 100 times

Accessed less than 100 times

• The Long Tail

• Has not led to unbalanced collection

Collection Balance

• Expenditures have been predictable

Predictability

• Expenditures represent good value

Value

EBL

Average 154 transactions/month

Average 4 purchases/month

Average 9 transactions of non-academic content/month

MyiLibrary

Average 6 purchases/month

• Expenditures $1600 to $3900 per month

• Average $2,640/month

EBL

• Expenditures $275 to $1800 per month

• Average $750/month

MyiLibrary

EBL

• Short term loan average price = $15.00

• Purchased title average price = $85.30

MyiLibrary

• Purchased title average price = $121.50

UC Merced

PDA remains exclusive way to acquire e-books

Exploring linking to approval plan to reduce duplication

Possible use of print PDA

UC System

Some campus e-book PDA pilots

UCLA using print PDA

Systemwide e-book PDA pilot under discussion

Shared print

HathiTrust▪ Digitized volumes ingested = 9.7 million

▪ Digitized public domain volumes = 2.6 million

WEST (Western Regional Storage Trust)▪ Distributed retrospective print journal repository