Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users

Suzanne M. Ward (Curatore)

Robert S. Freeman (Curatore)

Purdue University Press, 2015

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.

• Curatore: Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman
• Editore: Purdue University Press
• Collana: Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 372 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 605 gr.
• EAN: 9781557537270

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