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Beginning |
Developing |
Exemplary |
Data Source |
Triggering of ebook PDAs |
Most purchase requests will be triggerd unintentionally |
Increase in intentional purchase requests, approximately 25% of total requests |
Majority of PDAs are intentional, approximately 85% |
Questionnaire distributed to all student participants in ebook PDA program
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Use of specific requests |
Titles requested see minimal use beyond that which triggered the initial purchase |
Individual students make use of half the titles purchased at their request |
Students report using at least 3/4 of the total number of individual titles they request |
Database-generated usage statistics; Questionnaire distributed to all student participants who successfully requested purchases through the ebook PDA program |
Quality of resources |
Many ebook requests are approved for purchase, but 30% or more are declined or delayed due to questionable value of content |
Majority of ebook PDAs are approved without hesitation; declined/delayed request decrease to 15% |
Minimal number of denied and delayed PDA requests n>5% |
Database-generated records of librarians' PDA approvals, denials and delays; librarian-supplied data on decision-making processes for ebook PDAs |
Impact on student research |
Student research papers/projects will primarily reference resources other than ebooks |
Student research papers/projects occasionally reference ebooks, 0-5 titles per project, depending on the subject area (some fields draw almost exclusively on journals, for example) |
Students not only use ebooks for research papers and projects, they make creative use of them external to papers and projects (accessing them during live presentations, for example) |
Interviews with faculty; Student focus groups |