PDA Transforms Global Students Collection
By Daniel Pennell & Clare Connors
PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) or DDA (Demand Driven Acquisition) is transforming how ULS builds its collections. While bibliographers like GSC’s Daniel Pennell continue to shape the GSC collection with major purchases, patrons like you also play a key role. As Daniel Pennell explains, any book or item that is requested three times is automatically purchased in electronic form through the PDA process. If that particular item is consistently requested over several years, ULS typically purchases a hard copy.
Based on a review of PDA generated purchases, Daniel Pennell, along with other librarians in the ULS, have developed holdings concentrating on sub-topics within the four focal themes. The listings below highlight the themes and subjects in which the ULS has collected materials.
We would like to hear your thoughts about the list below and other topics, themes, and areas in which you have been doing research and checking out materials from the ULS system. Please email the GSC to let us know, and we will report back in our Spring 2014 newsletter.
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AY 2013 Global Studies Collecting Trends By Subject-heading
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Global HealthGlobal warming/climate change/water resources/air quality HIV, pandemics, immunization, contraception Aging and the welfare state Food security |
Global EconomyCrisis of global capitalism Income inequality Debt Austerity BRICS |
Global SecurityChina vs. the West Criminology and cyber-security/financial crime Power of non-state actors Terrorism/Counterterrorism |
Global SocietyInternet and popular culture Global population movement: immigration, human trafficking, refugees Rise and role of civil society Religion and tolerance Human rights |
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