2. Collection Development & Assessment

Short Term Loan (STL), Return on Investment (ROI)

To share strategies on controlling expenditures on PDA and to discuss recommendations for an alternative acquisitions model that is mutually beneficial to both libraries and publishers

Following up an earlier ROI evaluation, this study accesses the viability of Patron-Driven-Acquisitions (PDA) on return-on-investment after steep increases on short term loans (STL) prices from many publishers.  And it recommends the measures libraries can take to control the expenditure while still benefiting from the STLs on PDA.