[Publib] collective collection development

[Meg VanPatten]

Our system started using Overdrive about 3 years ago.  Every library in the system agreed to spend a percentage of the their materials budget annually.  (I think it might have been 1% but I'm not sure.)  Each library buys what they want but some do look at what has already been purchased.  One library in the system decided it was not getting used enough and they decided to stop participating.  Thus their patrons are not able to download anything from Overdrive.




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Meg Van Patten
Head of Reference and Adult Services
Baldwinsville Public Library
33 East Genesee Street
Baldwinsville, New York 13207-2575

315-635-5631 (voice)
315-635-6760 (fax)
http://www.bville.lib.ny.us/
megv at bville.lib.ny.us





From: ms1947 at aol.com
Sent: Thu 2/26/2009 12:01 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] collective collection development


I am part of a mini-consortium that has been using Overdrive to provide downloadable audio services in our libraries. We equally share the annual fee and we each have an agreed upon dollar amount to spend within each fiscal year. I would greatly appreciate hearing from similar libraries about their collection development mechanisms. Do you have a committee of selectors? Do you utilize standing orders? How do you address meeting some special needs of a particular library? What are some of the stumbling blocks that you've encountered?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Michael Simon
Long Beach PL
Long Beach, NY




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