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Bigger on the Inside than the Outside

Bigger on the Inside than the Outside. Managing eBooks. eB ook usage: The Next Frontier?. Show of Hands: How many people are actively acquiring eBooks ? How many people have seen an increase in patron demand? Is eBook use increasing/ decreasing @ your Library?.

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Bigger on the Inside than the Outside

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  1. Bigger on the Inside than the Outside Managing eBooks

  2. eBook usage: The Next Frontier? Show of Hands: How many people are actively acquiring eBooks? How many people have seen an increase in patron demand? Is eBook use increasing/ decreasing @ your Library?

  3. eBook Truisms: Agree/Disagree? eBook use is huge at my library Print collection development strategies are easily transferrable to eBooks My library has a well-defined policy and procedure for withdrawing eBooks Our eBooks are readily discoverable in the catalog or through some other tool My patrons are well-aware of our eBook holdings I worry about licensing/ownership issues surrounding eBooks

  4. eBook use: Public Libraries HUGE High demand Exponential growth 4x as many people are reading eBooks now than 2 years ago (LJ) Predictions about eBook popularity and growth in use have proven correct

  5. eBook Use: Public Libraries Why? Easily discoverable Meet patron demands Ease of use Rise of hand-held & mobile devices Market penetration of leisure reading from non-library sources (Kindle)

  6. eBook Use: Academic Libraries Not so huge Represents relatively small portion of over-all patron access of library materials Slow to catch-on (textbooks) Use not increasing in line with public library eBook use Defied predictions of rapid escalation of academic eBook use

  7. eBook Use: Academic Libraries Why? Students and faculty are not aware of eBook holdings Students and faculty are resistant to electronic format (especially textbooks) eBooks are often not easily discoverable, not integrated into online catalogs or dispersed Platform problems (textbooks are largely not available for mobile devices. E-books may not be supported by campus technologies) Older editions

  8. Northern Virginia Community College:Case Study 44,800 on-campus students 10,700 distance students 900 FT faculty 900 staff

  9. Case Study: Northern Virginia Community College EBSCO eBook: 22,000 All EBSCO: 1,222,000 Safari (Tech & business Books): 6,715 Print circulation: 148,000

  10. What about remote users/ distance ed. students? eBooks should fill a need for students remote from the physical library Do they?

  11. eBook Acquisition Acquisitions models? Buying by collections Title-by-title Acquisitions Patron-driven Acquisitions Approval plan

  12. Managing eCollections Assessment Evaluation User satisfaction Weeding

  13. References Ahmad, Pervaiz. “Scholarly Use of E-Books in a Virtual Academic Environment: A Case Study.” Australian Academic and Research Libraries. 43.3 (2012) 189-213. Brown, Randy. “Preliminary Findings rom a Survey of Student Acceptance and Use of E-Textbooks in Higher Education.” Allied Academies International Conference Proceedings. 17.2 (2012) 1-5. Cassidy, Erin. “Not in Love or Not in the Know? Graduate Student and Faculty Use (and Non-Use) of E-Books. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 38.6 (2012) 326-332. Croft, Rosie. “E-Books Revisitied: Surveying Student E-Book Usage in a Distributed Academic Library 6 Years Later.” Journal of Academic Librarianship. 50.5/6 (2010) 543-569. Daniel, David. “E-Textbooks at What Cost? Performance and Use of Electronic v. Print Texts.” Computers & Education. 62 (2013) 18-23. Gray, David. “E-Books Versus Print.” Reference & User Services Quarterly. 51.4 (2012) 334-339. Kaplan, Richard. Building and Managing E-Book Collections. New York: Neal-Schuman. 2012. Miller, Rebecca. “Dramatic Growth.” Library Journal. 136.17 (2011). Staiger, Jeff. “How E-Books are Used.” Reference and User Services Quarterly. 51.4 (2012) 355-365. Taylor, Deborah. “Comparison of Selected E-Books and Equivalent Print Books: Have Hand-held Portable Devices Increased Use in Three Aggregated Resources?” Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. 10.1 (2013) 11-14.

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