From: Roger Schonfeld <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:58:43 +0000

Jim, Thanks so much for calling attention to this work.  It’s been a
challenging and rewarding collaboration to build the protocols and
infrastructure that allowed us to gather these data from many dozens of
institutions.  We’d love to hear reactions and suggestions about additional
analyses we can conduct with these data as well, which stand to offer value
both to libraries interested in comparing their acquisitions practices with
peer institutions and for publishers interested in how their materials are
acquired.



Our next report, which will be out later this year, will also include data
from a second LSP and many dozens more institutions, which we hope will
help to round out our sample.  Academic libraries in the US that use WMS or
Alma, which have not already participated in the data gathering, are most
welcome to join.  It is extremely easy to participate, so please contact me
directly.



Finally, let me acknowledge and thank Katherine Daniel, an analyst at
Ithaka S+R who is the first author on the paper, and the Mellon Foundation,
which has supported this research.



Very best,

Roger



Roger C. Schonfeld‪
Director, Library and Scholarly Communication Program
Ithaka S+R‪

Twitter: @rschon <http://twitter.com/rschon>
Email: [log in to unmask]

Tel: 212.500.2338




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*Subject:* New From ITHAKA S+R: “Library Acquisition Patterns: A
Preliminary Report ... ”



From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:27:00 -0700

Every library will have its own acquisition practices, evolved in some
isolation in response to local circumstances and opportunities.  A new
Ithaka S-R report uses the statistical possibilities of a common LSP system
to take a first look at what can be known of current book-buying by a broad
but thin sample of libraries (54 institutions of widely varying sizes and
missions).



Everything about the report is necessarily preliminary and subject to
change when the authors (Esposito and Schonfeld) go on to a larger data
set.  Do Gobi (ex-YBP) and Amazon really hold 71% of the market share?
(The top 10 vendors include ones whose shares go down to under 1% -- which
makes me ask, how big is this market?)  Are firm orders still really the
order of the day?  And is DDA intrinsically hard to track?  The questions
are interesting and important and whet the appetite for what can be learned
from a much deeper dive.  The URL (short report, read online or download
PDF):



http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/library-acquisition-patterns-
preliminary-findings/



Jim O'Donnell

ASU