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Scanning the Shelves: Connecting Students to DDA


 

Dominique Couturier, MLIS, AHIP
Assistant Director

Kristen Giordano, MLIS, AHIP
Head of Education and Information Services

Alumni Medical Library
Boston University

As library collections become increasingly digital and less reliant on physical materials, a key question we face is how to connect patrons with these valuable digital resources and encourage their use. In the summer of 2025, the education and collections librarians at Boston University�s Alumni Medical Library (AML) collaborated to evaluate and highlight our Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) EBSCO eBook Collection. DDA is an acquisition model in which patron use directly informs which eBooks are purchased. Through a DDA collection, an institution can offer a curated set of eBooks for patrons to discover, while only incurring costs for those titles that receive significant use�

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American Psychiatric Association Publishing
 
Schatzberg's Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 10th Edition
 
Author: DeBattista , Charles

A seminal resource since the first edition was published in 1986, Schatzberg's Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology has distinguished itself, from the very beginning, for its readability ...

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American Academy of Pediatrics
 
Pediatric Eating Disorders: The Medical Care of Children and Adolescents
 
Author: Tanner , Anna B.

This practical reference provides pediatricians, hospitalists, and clinicians with guidance on diagnosing and treating pediatric eating disorders. Pediatric eating disorders are brain-based mental ...

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