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E - Books Setting New Directions

E - Books Setting New Directions. Warren Holder Information Technology Services University of Toronto Libraries April 17, 2007. 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

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  1. E-BooksSetting New Directions Warren HolderInformation Technology Services University of Toronto Libraries April 17, 2007

  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 - Setting New Directions

  3. Demand from Users Faculty Medicine Social Sciences Students General requests for more electronic resources Motivating Factors E-Books - Setting New Directions

  4. Demand from users Inter-campus borrowing Loans between the three campuses June 2003 – May 2005 Requests Titles St. George 12,941 8,989 UTM 20,303 16,375 UTSC 9,135 7,711 Total 42,379 33,075 Motivating Factors E-Books - Setting New Directions

  5. Demand from users Inter-campus borrowing Short term loan Titles placed on STL Robarts 15,401 UTM 4,150 Gerstein 3,832 UTSC 3,107 Trinity 1,943 St. Mike 1,826 Engineering 1,400 Victoria 563 Total 32,222 Motivating Factors E-Books - Setting New Directions

  6. Demand from users Inter-campus borrowing Short term loan Need for new acquisition models Dissatisfaction with current licensing / acquisition costs Need for integration with current dealer selection orders Motivating Factors E-Books - Setting New Directions

  7. Demand from users Inter-campus borrowing Short term loan Need for new acquisition models Need to assess user acceptance and expectations 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 Motivating Factors E-Books - Setting New Directions

  8. Today’s students Technology from the Students’ Perspective AASCU, EDUCAUSE, Microsoft E-Books - Setting New Directions

  9. Today’s students How Do YouUse the Libraryfor Research? E-Books - Setting New Directions

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

  11. Today’s students I don’t use it that much E-Books - Setting New Directions

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

  13. 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 - Setting New Directions

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

  15. 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 - Setting New Directions

  16. 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 - Setting New Directions

  17. 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 - Setting New Directions

  18. Today’s students A lot of the materials in the Library they’re antiquated E-Books - Setting New Directions

  19. Today’s students I only go into the library when I have to, really E-Books - Setting New Directions

  20. Local Collections Historical Collections Contemporary Collections E-Book Holdings • Pre-pilot study holdings ≈ 350,000 titles ≈ 250 publishers ≈ 65 service providers • E-Book sources E-Books - Setting New Directions

  21. E-Book Use • Inconsistent measures of use from aggregators 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 • StatRef 11 69,746 Documents retrieved E-Books - Setting New Directions

  22. E-Book Use E-Books - Setting New Directions

  23. netLibrary Use E-Books - Setting New Directions

  24. netLibrary Use Analysis • When both print & electronic are available • Electronic use > Print use 58% • Print use > Electronic use 40% • Print use = Electronic 2% • Total use = 129,798 “loans” • Print use 29.5% • Electronic use 70.5% E-Books - Setting New Directions

  25. Objective • Undertake a pilot study with • A single E-Book delivery platform that will • Allow integration with • Existing systems and services • Curricular and research activities • Provide • Consistent, comprehensive use data E-Books - Setting New Directions

  26. MyiLibrary • Selected as platform for the pilot study • Initially as a remotely hosted service • Content ≈ 20,000 titles • Went live September 2006 E-Books - Setting New Directions

  27. E-Book Holdings • Pilot study • Publishers Titles Lippencott Williams & Wilkins 130 Oxford University Press 3,305 Springer 5,363 Taylor & Francis 11,323 Wiley 1,606 21,727 E-Books - Setting New Directions

  28. MyiLibrary E-Books - Setting New Directions

  29. MyiLibrary E-Books - Setting New Directions

  30. MyiLibrary E-Books - Setting New Directions

  31. MyiLibrary E-Books - Setting New Directions

  32. MyiLibrary E-Books - Setting New Directions

  33. Data Analysis • Have looked at • Days & times of use • Numbers of user sessions & pages viewed • Navigation within books • Length of time spent on pages • Have not looked at • Referring links • User status • User location • Navigation between books E-Books - Setting New Directions

  34. ≈ 15% of use when Library is closed Time of Day E-Books - Setting New Directions

  35. Day of Week E-Books - Setting New Directions

  36. User Sessions E-Books - Setting New Directions

  37. Pages Viewed E-Books - Setting New Directions

  38. Reading Patterns E-Books - Setting New Directions

  39. Reading Patterns “Hunter” “Harvester” E-Books - Setting New Directions

  40. General observation The greater the linearity, the less time on page Time on Page “Hunter” “Harvester” E-Books - Setting New Directions

  41. Top 10 — Sessions Title Sessions Pages • Genesis: The Evolution of Biology 180 1,767 • World Music: The Basics 157 1,715 • Modern South Asia 152 1,726 • Neuroendocrinology: An Integrative Approach 122 1,720 • Analysis of Financial Time Series 114 1,499 • Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth 112 1,580 • Differential Equations and Mathematical Biology 108 1,176 • Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War 107 1,210 • Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models 104 1,339 • The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland 96 1,564 E-Books - Setting New Directions

  42. Top 10 — Electronic vs. Print Electronic Print Title Sessions Copies Loans • Genesis: The Evolution of Biology 180 4 102 • World Music: The Basics 157 2 8 • Modern South Asia 152 8 313 • Neuroendocrinology: An Integrative Approach 122 6 33 • Analysis of Financial Time Series 114 3 60 • Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth 112 2 57 • Differential Equations and Mathematical Biology 108 4 126 • Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War 107 0 0 • Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models 104 2 54 • The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland 96 2 74 E-Books - Setting New Directions

  43. OntarioBuys Funding • Initial proposal OCUL  COU  Ministry of Finance • OntarioBuys • Funds infrastructure to support changes to business practices • Grant to OCUL / Scholars Portal • $750,000 for E-Books • $750,000 for Data services E-Books - Setting New Directions

  44. E-Books — Next Steps • Formal Request for Information has been sent to potential E-Book platform vendors • E-Book platform to be selected for local implementation • Implementation during the summer E-Books - Setting New Directions

  45. E-Books — Next Steps • Initial content • 20,000 contemporary titles now on MyiLibrary • 50,000 historical UTL titles from the Open Content Alliance / Internet Archive digitization initiative • Metadata for remotely loaded e-books E-Books - Setting New Directions

  46. E-Books — Next Steps • Future content • CRKN & OCUL licensed e-books • Archive of historical collections • ProQuest • Michigan E-Books - Setting New Directions

  47. E-Books — Next Steps • Further analysis of use data • Greater emphasis on E-Book acquisition • Investigation of new acquisition models • Cooperative acquisitions • Purchase on demand E-Books - Setting New Directions

  48. Questions / Discussion E-Books - Setting New Directions

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