From: Michael Levine-Clark <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:31:01 +0000

NISO Releases Recommended Practice on Demand-Driven Acquisition of
Monographs for Public Comment

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking
comments on the draft recommended practice Demand-Driven Acquisition
of Monographs(NISO RP-20-201x). Launched in June 2012, the NISO Demand
Driven Acquisition (DDA) Working Group was charged with developing a
flexible model for DDA (also referred to as patron-driven acquisition)
that works for publishers, vendors, aggregators, and libraries. The
draft Recommended Practice discusses and makes recommendations about
key aspects of DDA, goals and objectives of a DDA program, choosing
parameters of the program, profiling options, managing MARC records
for DDA, removing materials from the consideration pool, assessment of
the program, providing long-term access to un-owned content,
consortial considerations for DDA, and public library DDA.

"Libraries have embraced DDA because it has the potential to rebalance
the collection away from possible use toward immediate need," stated
Michael Levine-Clark, Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and
Collections Services at University of Denver Libraries and NISO DDA
Working Group Co-chair. "It is important that, regardless of the model
used, the program be sustainable for publishers, vendors, and
libraries, that there is some free discovery without triggering
purchase, and that discovery is integrated in some way with other
tools in use by the library. This Recommended Practice addresses all
those issues and more."

"The guidelines in this draft Recommended Practice will allow
libraries to develop DDA plans for both electronic and print books
that meet differing local collecting and budgetary needs while also
allowing consortial participation and cross-aggregator
implementation," explained Barbara Kawecki, Director of Sales, Western
U.S. at YBP Library Services and NISO DDA Working Group Co-chair.
"Although DDA has been adopted primarily by academic libraries,
greater interest in and use of DDA by public libraries is expected in
the future and these recommendations should work equally well for
them."

"The DDA Working Group conducted focus groups and surveyed a wide
variety of existing users of DDA prior to developing their
recommendations," said Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for
Programs. "We are interested in feedback on this draft Recommended
Practice from organizations already involved with DDA as well as those
just getting started or considering a DDA program. This feedback will
be used to make any needed revisions to the document before final
publication of the recommendations."

The draft recommended practice is open for public comment through
April 24, 2014. To download the draft or submit online comments, visit
the Demand-Driven Acquisition Working Group webpage at:
www.niso.org/workrooms/dda/

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