[Lswtalk] Overdrive Funding

[Howard L. Coy Jr.]

Sorry I misunderstood. This give me cause of concern. I dropped Landmark
Audio because they were selecting, they quickly changed and allowed me to
select. For over 32 years I have made 95% of the selections for my Library,
as I am responsible for this. I take that responsibility very seriously. I
realize that others are happy to shift this to someone else, I am not. I
welcome patron suggestions, and the only standing orders we have are for
Graphic novels, Large Print Westerns and Large Print Christian fiction. I
spend a lot of time on collection development.

Howard



On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Loretta Gharst <LGharst at calcasieu.lib.la.us
> wrote:

>  Sorry Howard,
> That is not what we meant.  I apologize for miscommunication to this group.
>
> What we are saying is *let us use the money you would have spent
> selecting OverDrive content to help offset the cost of purchasing added
> copies for holds, patron recommend to library, expiring content licenses
> for content we know is checking out.  *
>
> This seemed like it would be helpful to member libraries as the most
> frequent complaint we have heard at LSW meetings is the difficulty of
> finding something to select.  And it would help put the dollars where they
> are needed.
>
> I will forward  the invoices we got this week for this stuff.  We get
> invoices for each of these scenarios every week.  We also get carts every
> week for holds, recommends, expiring content.
>
> We also receive weekly email listing expiring content (attached
> directions, and spreadsheets created for record of expiring content and
> repurchase for both quantity metered titles and time metered).
> We cross-reference the email list to the expiring cart in content reserve
> as they do not contain the same information for making a re-purchase
> decision.  Attached is some information about how to do repurchase and our
> record of weekly emails.  You can view the Expiring content carts that come
> on Mondays. We ususally don't start editing these until mid week. These are
> a challenge because the date metered content continues to appear in the
> cart weekly for a month, even after re-purchase because the old copy has
> not yet expired. So it has to expire to disappear from the cart.
>
> Please let us know if  anyone needs more details.
>
> Loretta
>
>  Loretta Gharst
> Division Head
> Collection & Computing Services
> Calcasieu Parish Public Library
> 301 W. Claude St.
> Lake Charles, LA 70605
> Ph 337 721-7150
> Fax 337 475-8806
> Cell 337 515-9724
> www.calcasieulibrary.org
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* lswtalk-bounces at beau.org [lswtalk-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of
> Howard L. Coy Jr. [howardlcoy at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 12:32 PM
> *To:* Loretta Gharst
> *Cc:* lswtalk at beau.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Lswtalk] Overdrive Funding
>
>   Perhaps I slept through part of this, but my understanding was the the
> extra funding was for purchasing items on Request and items expiring. Each
> Library was to continue purchasing materials.
>
>  Thank you.
> Howard
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Loretta Gharst <
> LGharst at calcasieu.lib.la.us> wrote:
>
>>   Dear LSW,
>>
>> I will contact the other OverDrive consortia and find out how they are
>> dividing up costs.
>> Their methods may or may not fit with our special LSW ways.
>>
>> In the meantime, what you might consider is how much of your total annual
>> circ is derived from this collection.
>> Apply that percentage  to your annual circulating materials budget and
>> that gives a rough idea of what it is worth to your system in materials
>> budget terms.
>>
>> This is just a suggestion to figure value, NOT a recommendation for
>> funding.
>>
>> Please don't stress, we are not rushing, just discussing.  :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Loretta
>>
>> Loretta Gharst
>> Division Head
>> Collection & Computing Services
>> Calcasieu Parish Public Library
>> 301 W. Claude St.
>> Lake Charles, LA 70605
>> Ph 337 721-7150
>> Fax 337 475-8806
>> Cell 337 515-9724
>> www.calcasieulibrary.org
>>
>>
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