WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Abstract

As e ‐ books become an increasingly large part of our collection, the NCSU Libraries acquisition and discovery department created an e ‐ book reconciliation database to ensure that all of our purchased e ‐ book package content is available in the ILS and throughout the Libraries discovery layers and to create definitive title lists that associate and articulate e ‐ book titles with package purchases. This tool compares vendor title lists against ILS metadata in order to identify missing titles and generate reports. The paper will discuss what prompted the development of the database; present the e ‐ book data flow in NCSU Libraries and e ‐ book reconciliation workflows designed based on the data flow; report on our approach on how to collect e ‐ book title lists, normalize metadata and identify matching point for the reconciliation; present our findings by analyzing the data; and discuss the most common e ‐ books issues found in the reconciliation process, the causes and solutions for these issues.