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Adapting to E-Books

Name: Adapting to E-Books
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Rita Pellen (Editor), William Miller (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 December 2008 | Edition Number 1

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294 Pages

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Electronic books are now having a major impact on library collections. This book provides models for acquisitions policies and reports on several surveys of faculty and librarian attitudes toward e-books. It discusses issues in acquiring cataloguing and collection development regarding this important new library resource.

Its subject matter deals with the different types of e-books, statistical data available for e-book usage, the development of e-book collections, learning environments, integrating e-books into local catalogues, acquisitions and usage monitoring of e-books.

This book will be of interest to librarians across all educational sectors, library science scholars and e-book publishers.

This book was published as a special issue of The Acquisitions Librarian.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Desktop Publishing Society & Culture Media Studies Library & Info Sciences Acquisitions & Collection Development Library & Information Services Humanities

Introduction: Moving into the World of E-books	p. 1
E-books and Virtual Learning Environments: Responses to a Transfromational Technolgy	p. 5
E-books in the University of California Libraries	p. 23
Making Sense of E-books Usage Data	p. 33
ebrary and two International E-book Surveys	p. 53
Survey Analysis: ebrary User Survey	p. 71
Faculty Experiences with Electronic Resources	p. 87
Academic E-books: Supply Before Demand in the Life Sciences?	p. 139
The University of Pittsburgh Study in an Electronic Environment: Have E-books Changed Usage Patterns Of Monographs?	p. 151
Mission Possible: E-books and the Humanities	p. 165
Moving from Book to E-book	p. 193
New Types of E-books, E-book Issues, and implications for the Future	p. 207
Integration of Electronic Books into Library Catalogs: The UIC Library Experience	p. 229
Managing Users' Expectations of E-books	p. 249
Consortia and E-books: Expanding Access and Defining Business Models	p. 257
From Print to "e": An Industry Perspective	p. 271
Index	p. 281
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