[Lswtalk] Overdrive Funding

Sun Mar 15 15:11:27 CDT 2015

Trudy, thanks. I like this.
Howard

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Trudy Patterson <tpatter at centurytel.net>
wrote:

>   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. <howardlcoy at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 3:02 PM
> *To:* Loretta Gharst <LGharst at calcasieu.lib.la.us>
> *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
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *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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>>
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