Welcome to Agentic Collections & Acquisitions thatbuys the title the campus keeps borrowing.
The demand signals exist all over the record, and nothing connects them at decision time. Risely's agents feed usage, turnaways, loan repeats, and syllabus adoption into one board. The collections librarian approves every order, every renewal, and every cut.
Acquisition board · renewal season
signals arriving
· turnaway posted · a nursing student hit the user limit
· usage report landed · the bundle nobody opens
· loan repeat counted · the sixth borrow this year
Nursing research database
expand40 turnaways land every month, and the program keeps growing
Aggregator bundle · $29K
renegotiate3% usage · the worst usage per dollar on the board
Monograph · borrowed 6 times via ILL
purchase draftedowning it costs less than the seventh borrow
Every case lands with the collections librarian, receipts attached.
ready before the vendor callsEvery demand signal lands on one board.
Usage, turnaways, loan repeats, and syllabus adoption live in different systems and never meet at decision time. Risely's agents pull them onto one acquisition board, sorted by the strength of the case.
Four systems, one board
connecting
Usage reports
what gets opened, per database
Turnaways
who hit a limit and bounced
Loan repeats
what keeps getting borrowed
Syllabus adoption
what courses assign
One acquisition board sorts every title by the strength of its case.
The signals always existed. They just never met at decision time.
The expansion case is written before the complaints are.
The nursing database turns students away 40 times a month while the program keeps growing. Risely's agents draft the expansion case with both curves attached.
Nursing research database
expandturnaways, term over term · now 40 a month
The case is written the year the demand curve says so, before a complaint reaches the dean.
The renewal call starts from the library's own numbers.
The $29K bundle sits at 3% usage, and the vendor already knows its price. Risely's agents put the usage-per-dollar line on every renewal before the call, so the negotiation starts even.
Aggregator bundle · up for renewal
renegotiate$29K
what the bundle costs
3%
how much of it gets used
Usage per dollar ranks every renewal line before the vendor calls.
The vendor knows its price. Now the library knows its usage, and the negotiation starts even.
Borrowing six times proves the purchase.
A title that keeps coming back through interlibrary loan costs less to own than to borrow again. Risely's agents run that math and draft the order for the collections librarian to approve.
One title gets borrowed again and again
0 of 6 this year
each block is one interlibrary loan of the same title
Owning it costs less than the seventh borrow, so the purchase is drafted for the collections librarian.
The collection grows exactly where borrowing proved the need.
One turnaway posts. The case re-runs.
A turnaway, a loan repeat, a syllabus that adopts a title mid-term. Any of them changes what the budget should buy, and every one runs the same way.
A turnaway posts
a nursing student hits the user limit
The demand curve updates
the expansion case recomputes
The renewal stance shifts
the idle bundle funds the fix
The librarian reviews one case
receipts attached
The budget follows demand
before the vendor calls
Agentic Collections & Acquisitions never works alone.
What changes, and how it runs.
Every dollar follows a demand signal
Usage, turnaways, and repeats make the case before intuition does.
Every renewal starts from the library's numbers
The usage-per-dollar line is on the table before the vendor calls.
The collection grows where borrowing proved the need
The repeat purchase drafts itself, and a librarian signs it.
The technical read
Connects read-only to usage reports, the ILL record, and the acquisitions system to start
The collections librarian approves every order and every cut
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.