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10. How are you handling the pre-order search/verification process and vendor assignment for single title e-book orders? The majority
- Majority of respondents indicated that for title-by-title acquisitons, selectors/bibliographers conducted the pre-order search/verification step.
- Some respondents acknowledged doing this step but did not specify whether the people involved were acquisitions personnel or selectors/bibliographers.
- One respondent stated that since they only ordered subject packages of titles, they did not worry about title duplication as such.
- Those respondents who regularly use GOBI (YBP) or MyiLibrary (Coutts) for doing title-by-title ordering used these vendors' web-based utilities to do their duplicate searching.
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- Some respondents also checked directly with publishers' sites although it is unclear under what circumstances this was done. Several respondents mentioned that searching WorldCat/OCLC was not useful for this purpose.
11. What are your policies for ordering e-books for e-reserves? Are you aware of any problems in this area? The responses for this question were varied: it seems that the different libraries needed to quickly adopt certain sets of procedures to answer a recent demand for e-reserve titles and often chose to go with a familiar non-reserve solution in order to provide access for a few rushed items. In general, it seems that there is a need for standardization and a more comprehensive solution for the problem of multi-usage and "turnaways". Currently libraries use different methods to evaluate and solve this concern: some order a multi-usage copy to begin with and others rely on the vendor or on their own count to assess when they should buy another copy for e-reserve.
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