[Wactclc-alma] Kanopy DDA

[Kun, Lily]

Hi Nicole,

SPSCC switched over to the $2 option in July last year and we love it. It’s saved us a lot of money. When we were on the PDA model, we spent almost $8K (3/2017-5/2018), but since we switched over to $2 PPU (pay per use), we’ve cut the spending in half (almost $4K 7/2018-6/2019) and have more usage than ever. I would not go back to the PDA model—my films are now $150 each, so it would take viewing one film 75 times ($2 x 75 = $150) to make it worth buying. In the one year I’ve been tracking PPU usage, less than a handful of films have gotten more than 75 views. I’ve only had to purchase one film because it was more cost efficient (more than 100 views).

As for the need to create user accounts, I worked it out with Kanopy so that our students only need to be logged in through our ezproxy portal without needing to create the extra Kanopy account. The only reason users need to get a Kanopy account is so that Kanopy can give users the 72 hours free access to the same film (e.g. the individual user can watch Lady Bird multiple times during 72 hours for just $2). Without a Kanopy account, Kanopy won’t know who is activating what film, so you lose out on the multiple views within 72 hours. I haven’t seen it make much difference to our spending—most of our students are not going to be watching a film multiple times.

Also, Kanopy has a habit of sending update emails to you when you’re down to a certain percentage of your deposit account. You do have to monitor your spending and respond to the emails to let them know what you want to do. Otherwise, there’s an automated procedure that they go through. Here’s an excerpted example of an update email:

Status of your ppu budget
We have just reached 90% of your ppu budget and we wished to notify you of this. We hoped to confirm if you would like to contribute additional budget to your ppu program.

Next Steps
Please let us know if you wish to (1) add funds and continue the program as is or (2) mediate the program and no longer have access to films you do not currently license. If we do not hear from you, we will mediate your ppu program until you confirm otherwise.

I just tell them that we’re on track with our spending and to keep things as is and will add more funds on July 1.

Lily

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Daniel Moore
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2019 3:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wactclc-alma] Kanopy DDA

Hey Nicole,

We switched to the $2 option back in October and we love it. We only have a few months worth of spending reports, but, we saved about $500 last fall versus Fall 2017, and comparing Winter 2019 to Winter 2018 shows nearly a 50% reduction in costs, yet with more views. It's been fantastic.

Our Foundation makes deposits into our Kanopy account when it gets low. We'll be due for another deposit after the end of summer.

We've only received one real complaint about Kanopy and that's about the user accounts it forces patrons to sign up with. It's a headache but we tell patrons that the Kanopy account is good for the public library's access portal too.

Dan

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 2:56 PM Nicole Longpre <nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu<mailto:nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I sent this out last week but I don’t think that it sent properly.

We currently use Kanopy (and Swank) to buy individual titles. This is an expensive way to purchase films and we’ve recently learned about Kanopy’s DDA option.
Do any of you use the Kanopy DDA option? If so, we have a couple of questions:
•            Has Kanopy PDA been successful for you?
•            How much money have you spent on the PDA program? We have terrible visions of spending way too much…
•            What complaints do you have about Kanopy PDA?
•            Is there anything else you would like to share?

Kanopy also offers a $2 per film option, but as users would need a Kanopy ID, we think this would be troublesome. That is why we are looking at the PDA option.

If you could reply off list, I would appreciate it greatly. Please let me know if I can answer any questions that you might have.

Thanks,
Nicole

Nicole Longpré (she/her)
Systems Librarian
Library Program Chair
Bellevue College
nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu<mailto:nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu>
425-564-3071




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Regards,

Dan Moore
Systems and Collections Librarian
Edmonds Community College Library
dan.moore at edcc.edu<mailto:dan.moore at edcc.edu> / daniel.moore at email.edcc.edu<mailto:daniel.moore at email.edcc.edu>
(425) 640-1526
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