Librarian_interview


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Interviews are based on a ‘structured' approach based on structured interview templates.

Librarians interview
Information Resources Manager,Library Services 26-29 Drury Lane. London WC2B 5RL (Nick has now moved jobs to Northumbria University) || Library and Learning Services Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 8ST Tel 0191 2274146 || Robinson Library Back Jesmond Road West Newcastle University Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HQ
 * **Librarians interviewed** || **contact details/ comments** ||
 * Nick Woolley || King's College London
 * Terry Bucknell Liverpool || on project team ||
 * Sarah Thompson,York || on project team ||
 * Graham Stone, Huddersfield (and UKSG) || G.Stone@hud.ac.uk ||
 * June Thorburn || Assistant Director
 * Amanda Boll || Metadata Librarian and part-time Head of Technical Services

Tel: 0191 2227724 Email: Amanda.Boll@ncl.ac.uk || Learning Resources Centre College Lane Hatfield AL10 9AB Telephone : 01707 284750 j.harrison@herts.ac.uk ||
 * Jackie Harrison || University of Hertfordshire

Questions
How does it work ||  ||
 * **Interview question/theme** || **Why will this be helpful to know? Why should we ask this? Other comments** ||
 * **GENERAL** ||  ||
 * How many ebooks do your offer in total || Need to get some idea of the current scale of PDA. ||
 * What providers do you use ||  ||
 * What percentage of total purchased gets used often (say 3x per year) || Some sense that number of high use ebooks is relatively small? ||
 * What channels: Collections, individual titles, PDA etc. ||  ||
 * From your perspective what role(s) do ebooks serve..i.e. why do you provide ebooks || Be useful to cross ref this with user motivations ||
 * What kinds of ebook are most important-e.g. textbooks, core course reading ||  ||
 * Where do users find out/discover ebooks-OPAC, reading list, ebook platform, discovery service (e.g. Summon or publisher A&I, Google) || Each system may have different metadata issues ||
 * Are you moving towards a *single* library discovery service that includes ebooks || Lots of universities are employing Discovery services like Primo/Summon/EBSCO DS. So is that where we need to focus our exploration of metadata issues. ||
 * What will be the system of record (which has the most comprehensive metadata record ||  ||
 * **PDA** ||  ||
 * Does you library use (or has it tried) PDA
 * If you have used PDA what 'problem' were you trying to solve with it || The user motivation for PDA ||
 * How many ebooks are purchased by user-driven acquisitions || Relative scale of PDA ||
 * Why do you think students 'buy' /recommend ebooks (e.g. via PDA || Basic motivation question ||
 * **METADATA** ||  ||
 * What kinds of metadata are exposed to user to help discovery. Descriptive, evaluative. Reviews, TOC, abstract, blurb || Baseline data of the kinds of metadata in the process ||
 * In your view what are the key metadata for //discovery// of ebook by users ||  ||
 * What is the role of metadata in helping users s//elect/purchase/recommend// for purchase. Are there particular metadata elements for example that are critical ||  ||
 * Is there a role of for metadata in //de-motivating// users from selecting ebooks. Eg ‘if only I’d known that about the book I’d never have selected it. ||  ||
 * How do you get the metadata in your systems (OPAC, Discovery service etc) ||  ||
 * Do you add/edit ebook metadata yourself..why. What do you edit/add/delete. Eg do you add in the OPAC whether an ebook is on a reading list ||  ||
 * Do different ebook access services expose different metadata..if so explain.. ||  ||

University of York


So what will be the system of record (which has the most comprehensive metadata record