[Lswtalk] Overdrive Funding

Sun Mar 15 14:08:18 CDT 2015

Just wanted to put my 2 cents worth in and tell you how the Bayouland libraries are doing it.  Each library also agrees to purchase a set amount each year.  each library makes their own selections.  However, Lafayette will make a cart of materials they feel need to be purchased or additional copies they think are needed, and any items on the metered list that need to be repurchased.  Any library has access to this cart and can purchase from it.  Every library does their own selecting but can take advantage of the “needed” cart just can’t find anything to buy at the moment.  Opelousas-Eunice uses suggestions from a cart very often because they have more money that must be spent than the other libraries as part of their “buy-in” agreement.

Trudy
tpatter at centurytel.net

From: Howard L. Coy Jr. 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 3:02 PM
To: Loretta Gharst 
Cc: lswtalk at beau.org 
Subject: Re: [Lswtalk] Overdrive Funding

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

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  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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