Interrogating Demand: Pathways Toward Purchase in Patron‐Influenced E‐Book Models

E‐books are available to academic libraries through a wide variety of acquisition models. The University of California, Merced (UC Merced) Library has used demand‐driven acquisitions (DDA) as its principal model for providing access to e‐books from its founding in 2005 to the present. This paper will discuss the influence of the situation at UC Merced on the implementation of DDA plans for e‐books and the results of the most recent five years of operations of these plans

Changing Operations of Academic Libraries

The University of California, Merced (UC Merced) opened in 2005. Both the campus and the library are celebrating their first decade of operation. This paper will examine decisions made at the founding of the library and which of these decisions remain valid today. The focus will be on collections, technical services, reference services, instruction, digital assets, and space