Academic e-books : publishers, librarians, and users /
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| Imprint: | West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016] ©2016 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (iii, 360 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397518 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (iii, 360 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781612494289 1612494285 9781612494296 1612494293 9781557537270 1557537275 1557538948 9781557538949 |