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Library E-Book Platforms Are Broken: Let's Fix Them, Galadriel Chilton, Joelle Thomas
Library E-Book Platforms Are Broken: Let's Fix Them, Galadriel Chilton, Joelle Thomas
Galadriel Chilton
The Changing Values Of Digital Legacies: E-Books And The Challenges Of Data Mobility And The Perceived Value Of Books, Derani Nathasha Dissanayake, David M. Cook
The Changing Values Of Digital Legacies: E-Books And The Challenges Of Data Mobility And The Perceived Value Of Books, Derani Nathasha Dissanayake, David M. Cook
Dr. David M Cook
Reading Habits Across Disciplines: A Study Of Student E-Book Use, Lee Cummings, Anne Larrivee, Leslie Vega
Reading Habits Across Disciplines: A Study Of Student E-Book Use, Lee Cummings, Anne Larrivee, Leslie Vega
Anne Larrivee
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Not On The Same Page: Undergraduates’ Information Retrieval In Electronic And Print Books, Selinda Adelle Berg, Kristin Hoffmann, Diane Dawson
Not On The Same Page: Undergraduates’ Information Retrieval In Electronic And Print Books, Selinda Adelle Berg, Kristin Hoffmann, Diane Dawson
Selinda Adelle Berg
Academic libraries are increasingly collecting e-books, but little research has investigated how students use e-books compared to print texts. This study used a prompted think-aloud method to gain an understanding of the information retrieval behavior of students in both formats. Qualitative analysis identified themes that will inform instruction and collection practices.
The Library Is Our Lab: The Case For Print Books In An Academic Library, Fran Gray, Peggy Ellis
The Library Is Our Lab: The Case For Print Books In An Academic Library, Fran Gray, Peggy Ellis
Fran Gray
Humanities researchers consider the library to be their laboratory, and its print collections their essential research equipment. In spite of anecdotal evidence that both students and faculty in the Humanities prefer print materials over e-books, academic libraries are allocating a steadily increasing proportion of their acquisitions budgets toward the purchase of e-books across all disciplines. What is the impact of this trend on the work of these researchers? At Western University in London, Ontario, we surveyed faculty members and graduate students in the Arts and Humanities faculty and those in the History department to gain a better understanding of their …
Conventional Wisdom Or Faulty Logic? The Recent Literature On Monograph Use And E-Book Acquisition, Amy Fry
Conventional Wisdom Or Faulty Logic? The Recent Literature On Monograph Use And E-Book Acquisition, Amy Fry
Amy Fry
The idea that academic libraries acquire a great many books that are never used, and that this is because traditional collection development – i.e., professional librarians purchasing books based on subject expertise and local knowledge of student and faculty needs and interests – is ineffective, has been repeated frequently during the last decade. This claim has been used as justification to change collection practices and to bolster ideas about new organizational models for libraries and their work. A closer look at the literature, however, reveals that the data being cited to support this claim has been communicated, for the most …