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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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