Academic e-books : publishers, librarians, and users

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Label

Academic e-books : publishers, librarians, and users

Title remainder

publishers, librarians, and users

Statement of responsibility

edited by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon

Contributor

• Nixon, Judith M.
• Ward, Suzanne M.
• Freeman, Robert S.

Editor

• Freeman, Robert S.
• Ward, Suzanne M.
• Nixon, Judith M.

Subject

• Academic libraries -- Collection development
• Academic libraries -- United States -- Case studies
• Libraries -- Special collections
• Libraries and electronic publishing
• Scholarly electronic publishing

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Member of

• Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

025.17/4

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

Z692.E4

LC item number

A24 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences