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E-Book Usage On A Global Scale: Patterns, Trends, And Opportunities, Michael Levine-Clark
E-Book Usage On A Global Scale: Patterns, Trends, And Opportunities, Michael Levine-Clark
University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship
This study examines worldwide usage of over 600,000 e-books from Ebook Library (EBL) and ebrary. Using multiple modes of analysis, the study shows that there are variations in usage by geographic region as well as by subject. The study examines usage in relation to availability of titles, different types of usage per session, usage of the top ten percent of titles, and intensive and extensive use. These patterns can be used for benchmarking and as a model for local e-book studies.
Reorganizing For Transformational Change: The 21st Century Research Library At A Flagship Public University, Jack M. Maness, John Culshaw
Reorganizing For Transformational Change: The 21st Century Research Library At A Flagship Public University, Jack M. Maness, John Culshaw
University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship
Beginning in November 2010 and culminating in February 2012, the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries began planning a significant structural reorganization. Local, pragmatic drivers for the change included retirements at the executive level and the loss of professional librarian lines due to the Great Recession of 2008. But other, more important catalysts existed and are driving similar reorganization efforts in research libraries across the country. The increasingly interdisciplinary, digital, and inter-institutional nature of scholarship, research and teaching requires a more flexible, team-managed research library. Dramatic shifts in how institutions of higher education are funded are also fueling the need to …