Patron Driven Acquisition

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David A. Swords

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 Chapter 4 by Kari Paulson

Patron driven acquisition

This chapter looks at the history of patron driven acquisition. A trial was carried out of a demand driven model developed by Australian librarians and founded in 1977 by Australian booksellers. Alison Sutherland from Curtin University provided the inspiration and creative vision which helped shape the current model   which we see today. Academic libraries took up the trials as the model provided various options for automatic purchases based upon the uses. This expanded as publishers got on board providing more content. Demand driven or patron driven acquisition PDA was officially launched in 2004 at the ALA conference.

 There was initial resistance due to the following factors:

• Spending on resources they didn't own.
• Having less control
• negative feedback - users wanted physical books

Despite initial reservations PDA has continued to be come more widely used and successful for libraries and is common  practice in academic libraries in Australia and new Zealand.