Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users

Authors

Suzanne M. Ward, Purdue University
Robert S. Freeman, Purdue University
Judith M. Nixon, Purdue University

Files

Series

Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences

Page Count

372

Language

English

Description

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users 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.

ISBN

9781557537270

Publication Date

Fall 12-15-2015

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette

Keywords

e-books, libraries, patron-driven acquisitions, consortia, e-reader checkout program, innovation, collection development, library and information science

Disciplines

Collection Development and Management | Library and Information Science

Comments

This book is made available available Open Access (CC-BY-NC) thanks to the support of over 200 libraries working together as part of the Knowledge Unlatched collaborative, www.knowledgeunlatched.org

Recommended Citation

Ward, Suzanne M., Freeman, Robert S., and Nixon, Judith M., Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users. (2015). Purdue University Press. (Knowledge Unlatched Open Access Edition.)