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E-BOOKS: Setting New Directions

E-BOOKS: Setting New Directions. E-Book Project. “ One solution we have decided on is to invest in a pilot project in electronic books,” Moore says, “as are other libraries both in Canada and internationally. Medicine and the social sciences are two areas that are

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E-BOOKS: Setting New Directions

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  1. E-BOOKS: Setting New Directions

  2. E-Book Project “One solution we have decided on is to invest in a pilot project in electronic books,” Moore says, “as are other libraries both in Canada and internationally. Medicine and the social sciences are two areas that are seeing enormous growth in these new research tools, which provide up-to-date and convenient access. There are also economic benefits in providing more access to more titles in areas of high demand through electronic versions in addition to hard cover books and journals.” Library system: meeting the demands of today's users U of T libraries strive to provide well-lit, comfortable, properly designed study environments by Michah Rynor September 23, 2005 http://www.steppingup.utoronto.ca/bin/001652.asp E-Books

  3. Demand Convenience Equality Discovery Assessment Discipline specific demands Medicine & allied health Social sciences Unvoiced demands Student expectations Goals E-Books

  4. Demands Convenience Equality Discovery Assessment 82% of e-journal use is outside the library 25% of e-journal use is when the Library is closed Goals E-Books

  5. Demands Convenience Equality Discovery Assessment 50% of our students take classes more than 30 km from the main campus Medical students take classes in “academies” in teaching hospitals Goals E-Books

  6. Demands Convenience Equality Discovery Assessment Catalogue records provide crude approaches to the content of books Users want to find specific information in books Goals E-Books

  7. Demands Convenience Equality Discovery Assessment We do not know how people use books We do not know what the impact of e-books will be Goals E-Books

  8. E-Book Holdings • Electronic Information Resources database lists ≈ 69,000 titles • ≈ 250 publishers • ≈ 65 service providers (top 12 shown) Chadwyck-Healey 15,469 MyiLibrary 15,006 NetLibrary 9,139 University of Michigan 8,102 Books24x7 4,222 SPIE Digital Library 4,119 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae 2,844 ProQuest 2,701 National Academies Press 2,320 American Council of Learned Societies 968 Cornell University Library 925 University of Toronto Libraries 600 CogNet (MIT Press) 471 Total 66,886 • Will increase by ≈ 200,000 titles as records for major e-book collections are added to EIR and Sirsi databases 60% 90% E-Books

  9. E-Book Use Titles Value Measure Books 24x7 2,400 1,189,855 Pages viewed CogNet (MIT Press) 471 135,574 Downloads Chadwyck-Healey 15,469 16,442 Full text accesses Knovel 456 46,280 Titles visited netLibrary 9,139 118,535 Full text accesses Oxford Reference 96 5,640 Full content units ProQuest (EEBO) 2,701 5,350 Full text accesses ProQuest (PQD) ? 89,059 Full text accesses StatRef 11 69,746 Documents Retrieved E-Books

  10. E-Book Use E-Books

  11. netLibrary Use Analysis • When both print & electronic are used • Electronic > Print 58% • Print > Electronic 40% • Print = Electronic 2% • Total use = 129,798 • Print 29.5% • Electronic 70.5% E-Books

  12. New Demands • Faculty of Medicine • Planned shift to electronic delivery • Require equal access for all students E-Books

  13. High Demand Loans Titles • Inter-campus borrowing St. George 12,941 8,989 UTM 20,303 16,375 UTSC 9,135 7,711 42,379 33,075 • Short term loan Total 32,222 E-Books

  14. Convenient Access Best from the users’ perspective E-Books

  15. Discovery • Traditional access • Catalogue • Electronic resources database • Content search • Single search for all full text content E-Books

  16. Today’s students Technology from the Students’ Perspective AASCU, EDUCAUSE, Microsoft E-Books

  17. Today’s students How Do YouUse the Libraryfor Research? E-Books

  18. Today’s students I use the Library about, I would say, at least once a week E-Books

  19. Today’s students I don’t use it that much E-Books

  20. Today’s students You know, if I needed a book, definitely it’s the first place I’d go E-Books

  21. Today’s students You gotta go to the library and actually get documentation or get hard cover books Professors are pretty cagey about over use of internet assignments or internet sources so they won’t allow it E-Books

  22. Today’s students The physical library? No I do most of my research online E-Books

  23. Today’s students I go to the internet and I do go to the library web site on the internet and search through there E-Books

  24. Today’s students Occasionally I actually have to come in and find an article that’s not in electronic format I get out of there as quick as I can E-Books

  25. Today’s students I can find pretty much everythingI need on the web Unless I really need a book that I don’t want to go buy or that there isn’t enough information on the web, I don’t go in there E-Books

  26. Today’s students A lot of the materials in the Library they’re antiquated E-Books

  27. Today’s students I only go into the library when I have to, really E-Books

  28. Today’s students • Have grown up with the internet • Expect immediacy • Are adept at multi-tasking • Learn asynchronously • Think they know everything • Prefer image to text • Prefer electronic to print E-Books

  29. Assessment • 3 year study on the use of electronic books • Analysis of use of electronic titles • Emphasis on use of comparable print & electronic titles (when both held) • Analysis of navigation to and through content (web logs) • Analysis of user opinion (surveys & focus groups) • Analysis of actual use (observation) E-Books

  30. Implementation • Delivery • Content • Promotion E-Books

  31. Delivery • Many have the wrong cost model • Annual subscription for content • Many have the wrong use model • Use based on traditional “loan” model • Many require a “non-standard” reader • Few have a wide range of content • MyiLibrary (Coutts) • Offers advantages over others • The “right” cost model • The “right” use model • Standard (PDF & HTML) readers • Wide range of content • Can support dealer selection plans • Publisher neutral & publisher trusted E-Books

  32. Delivery Best short term option Best long term option E-Books

  33. Content • Discipline specific content • High demand content • Short term loan • Inter-campus loan • Critical mass • Contemporary publications • Acquisition of entire title lists • Integration into dealer selection plans • Virtual reference collection E-Books

  34. Promotion • Promotion – not instruction • Creation of smart spots • Field of Dreams approach • “If you build it, they will come” but it is a slow process • Integration into curriculum • Changing institutional values E-Books

  35. Where we are heading E-Books

  36. Questions / DiscussionWarren HolderUniversity of TorontoLibrarieswarren.holder@utoronto.ca E-Books

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