I have been meaning to post on this for a while … and maybe I did already but forgot… Apologies if this is duplication.
I vaguely recall that earlier this year there was a thread on Videolib about fall off in use of Films on Demand, and inquiring if other had experienced the same. For other reasons I have just looked at the FoD use for the Arizona Universities Libraries Consortium and thought in light of this earlier thread others would find this information interesting. We definitely have not had a falloff….For 2012 (with another 2 weeks to go) our overall use of Films on Demand increased by 38% ! Our cost per use averages $0.21 ($0.2102 to be precise) Our highest use title had 10041 uses A total of 5741 titles were used over the year, with 1982 receiving 6 or more uses (the cutoff in our PDA model before a subscription model was available) 1028 received 25 or more uses, and 514 more than 100 Your mileage may vary! -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103
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