Library resource acquisition
AssigneeSirsi Corporation
InventorTalin Ryan Bingham
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Abstract
Acquiring resources for a plurality of customer or patrons. A method includes receiving a plurality of requests from different customers or patrons for the same groups or individual resources. The method further includes requesting a number of licenses for the groups or individual resources in a single purchasing transaction from a publisher. The method further includes receiving the number of licenses. The licenses are distributed to the different customers based on individual customer requests
Claims20
In a digital or mixed digital and physical library environment, a method of acquiring resources for a plurality of customer or patrons, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of requests from different entities, the different entities being one or more different educational institution libraries, different non-profit organization libraries, different public institution libraries, different corporate libraries, or different trade group libraries for the same resource;
- requesting a block of licenses purchased as a block of licenses, the block of licenses including a number of licenses for the resource to be purchased in a single purchasing transaction to purchase the block of licenses from a publisher;
- receiving the block of licenses from the publisher;
- and
- distributing different individual licenses in the block of licenses to the different entities, including distributing different licenses from the same block of licenses to one or more different educational institution libraries, different non-profit organization libraries, different public institution libraries, different corporate libraries, or different trade group libraries based on individual entity requests.
In a digital, or mixed digital and physical library environment, a computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause one or more processors to perform the following:
- receiving a plurality of requests from different entities, the different entities being one or more different educational institution libraries, different non-profit organization libraries, different public institution libraries, different corporate libraries, or different trade group libraries for the same resource;
- requesting a block of licenses purchased as a block of licenses, the block of licenses including a number of licenses for the resource to be purchased in a single purchasing transaction to purchase the block of licenses from a publisher;
- receiving the block of licenses from the publisher;
- and
- distributing different individual licenses in the block of licenses to the different entities, including distributing different licenses from the same block of licenses to one or more different educational institution libraries, different non-profit organization libraries, different public institution libraries, different corporate libraries, or different trade group libraries based on individual entity requests.
In a digital or mixed digital and physical library environment, a computing system configured to acquire resources for a plurality of customer or patrons, the computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- one or more computer readable media coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more computer readable media comprise computer executable instructions that then executed by one or more of the one or more processors cause one or more of the one or more processors to perform the following:
- receiving a plurality of requests from different entities, the different entities being one or more different educational institution libraries, different non-profit organization libraries, different public institution libraries, different corporate libraries, or different trade group libraries for the same resource;
- requesting a block of licenses purchased as a block of licenses, the block of licenses including a number of licenses for the resource to be purchased in a single purchasing transaction to purchase the block of licenses from a publisher;
- receiving the block of licenses from the publisher;
- and
- distributing different individual licenses in the block of licenses to the different entities, including distributing different licenses from the same block of licenses to one or more different educational institution libraries, different non-profit organization libraries, different public institution libraries, different corporate libraries, or different trade group libraries based on individual entity requests.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.