Academic E-Books - Publishers, Librarians, and Users (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Purdue University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
Release date:	November 2015
Editors:	Suzanne M Ward • Robert S. Freeman • Judith M Nixon
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	372
ISBN-13:	978-1-55753-727-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Automation of library & information processes Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library & information services
LSN:	1-55753-727-5
Barcode:	9781557537270

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