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1 online resource (372 pages) |
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Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences |
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Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences.
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| Contents |
Publishers' and vendors' products and services -- An industry perspective : publishing in the digital age / Nadine Vassallo -- The journey beyond print : perspectives of a commercial publisher in the academic market / Rhonda Herman -- Production, marketing, and legal challenges : the university press perspective on e-books in libraries / Tony Sanfilippo -- Delivering American Society for Microbiology e-books to libraries / Christine B Charlip -- Platform diving : a day in the life of an academic e-book aggregator / Bob Nardini -- Librarians' challenges -- University of California, Merced : primarily an electronic library / Jim Dooley -- Patron-driven acquisitions : assessing and sustaining a long-term PDA e-book program / Karen S. Fischer -- Use and cost analysis of e-books : patron-driven acquisitions plan vs librarian-selected titles / Suzanne M. Ward and Rebecca A. Richardson -- E-books across the consortium : reflections and lessons from a three-year DDA experiment at the Orbis Cascade Alliance / Kathleen Carlisle Fountain -- The simplest explanation : Occam's reader and the future of interlibrary loan and e-books / Ryan Litsey, Kenny Ketner, Joni Blake, and Anne McKee -- Developing a global e-book collection : an exploratory study / Dracine Hodges -- Users' experiences -- A social scientist uses e-books for research and in the classroom / Ann-Marie Clark -- The user experience of e-books in academic libraries : perception, discovery and use / Tao Zhang and Xi Niu -- E-book reading practices in different subject areas : an exploratory log analysis / Robert S. Freeman and E. Stewart Saunders -- Library e-book platforms are broken : let's fix them / Joelle Thomas and Galadriel Chilton -- Case studies -- A balancing act : promoting Canadian scholarly e-books while controlling user access / Ravit H. David -- Of Euripides and e-books : the digital future and our hybrid present / Lidia Uziel, Laureen Esser, and Matthew Connor Sullivan -- Transitioning to e-books at a medium-sized academic library : challenges and opportunities : a feasibility study on psychology collection / Aiping Chen-Gaffey -- E-books and a distance education program : a library's failure rate in supplying course readings for one program / Judith M. Nixon -- Mobile access to academic e-book content : a Ryerson investigation / Naomi Eichenlaub and Josephine Choi -- E-reader checkout program / Vincci Kwong and Susan Thomas -- Out with the print and in with the e-book : a case study in mass replacement of a print collection / Stephen Maher and Neil Romanosky -- Epilogue / Michael Levine-Clark -- Contributors. |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
E-Books in Academic Libraries: Stepping Up to the Challenge provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books.Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences.Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users’ experiences with scholarly works. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General.
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Academic libraries -- United States -- Case studies.
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Libraries and electronic publishing.
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Scholarly electronic publishing.
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Academic libraries -- Collection development.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freeman, Robert S.
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Nixon, Judith M., editor.
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Freeman, Robert S., editor.
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Ward, Suzanne M., editor.
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Nixon, Judith M.
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Ward, Suzanne M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Academic e-books : publishers, librarians, and users. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2015] 9781557537270 (DLC)2015027357 |
| ISBN |
9781612494296 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9781612494296 |
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