Electronic book usage: A survey at the University of Denver

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Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-299

  Levine Clark, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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EID: 33748951380     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2006.0041     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. See http://www.netlibrary.com/Gateway.aspx for more information about netLibrary (accessed March 28, 2006).
2. Lesley Nelson and Frances O'Neil, "Electronic Monographs in the Academic Library: An Implementation Story," LASIE: Information Bulletin of the Library Automated Systems Information Exchange 32, 2/3 (2001): 19.
3. Mary Summerfield, Carol A. Mandel, and Paul Kantor, "On-Line Books at Columbia: Early Findings on Use, Satisfaction, and Effect," in Technology and Scholarly Communication, ed. Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 282-308;
4. Summerfield, Mandel, and Kantor, "Perspectives on Scholarly Online Books: The Columbia University Online Books Evaluation Project," Journal of Library Administration 35, 1/2 (2001): 61-82.
5. Dennis Dillon, "E-Books: The University of Texas Experience," Library Hi Tech 19, 4 (2001): 350-62.
6. See also Dennis Dillon, "E-Books: The UT-Austin Experience," Texas Library Journal 76, 3 (2000): 112-15;
7. Diana Ramirez and Suzanne D. Gyeszly, "netLibrary: A New Direction in Collection Development," Collection Building 20, 4 (2001): 154-64.
8. Carol Ann Hughes and Nancy L. Buchanan, "Use of Electronic Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences," Library Hi Tech 19, 4 (2001): 368-75.
9. Nancy J. Gibbs, "eBooks Two Years Later: The North Carolina State University Perspective," Against the Grain 13, 6 (2001/2002): 22-6.
10. California State University Electronic Access to Information Resources Committee, E-book Task Force, "e-Book Project Final Report. Section 8.2. Analysis of the Use of e-Books as Compared to Print," http://seir.calstate. edu/ebook/about/report/section_8-2.shtml (accessed March 28, 2005).
11. Justin Littman and Lynn Silipigni Connaway," A Circulation Analysis of Print Books and E-Books in an Academic Research Library," Library Resources & Technical Services 48, 4 (2004): 256-62.
12. Hering Chu, "Electronic Books: Viewpoints from Users and Potential Users," Library Hi Tech 21, 3 (2003): 340-6.
13. Primary Research Group, Library Use of E-Books: A Report (New York: Primary Research Group, 2003).
14. Chris Armstrong, Louise Edwards, and Ray Lonsdale, "Virtually There? E-Books in UK Academic Libraries," Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 36, 4 (2002): 216-27.
15. California State University Electronic Access to Information Resources Committee, E-book Task Force, "e-Book Project Final Report. Section 8.3. Results of netLibrary E-Book User Survey," http://seir.calstate.edu/ebook/ about/report/section_8-3.shtml (accessed March 28, 2005);
16. Marc Langston, "The California State University E-Book Pilot Project: Implications for Cooperative Collection Development," Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 27, 1 (2003): 19-32.
17. Langston, 30.
18. Gordon A. Sabine and Patricia L. Sabine. "How People Use Books and Journals," Library Quarterly 56, 4 (1986): 399-408.
19. Similar results are shown in a study of undergraduate use and perceptions about print resources: Juris Dilevko and Lisa Gottlieb, "Print Sources in an Electronic Age: A Vital Part of the Research Process for Undergraduate Students," The Journal of Academic Librarianship 28, 6 (2002): 387.
20. Carol Tenopir, Brenda Hitchcock, and Ashley Pillow, Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003), http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub120/contents.html (accessed March 28, 2006).
21. Thomas Mann, "The Importance of Books, Free Access, and Libraries as Places - and the Dangerous Inadequacy of the Information Science Paradigm," The Journal of Academic Librarianship 27, 4 (2001): 270.
22. See for example Terje Hillesund, "Will E-Books Change the World?" First Monday 6, 10 (2001), http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/ issue6_10/hillesund/index.html (accessed March 28, 2006);
23. Barry Fast, "Books in the Digital World," Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 23, 2 (1999): 163-7;
24. and Norman Desmarais, "Innovations Affecting Us - E Ink and Digital Paper," Against the Grain 14, 6 (December 2002/January 2003): 88-90.
25. Clifford Lynch, "The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World," First Monday 6, 6 (2001), http://www.firstmonday.org/ issues/issue6_6/lynch/index.html (accessed March 28, 2006).
26. Christopher C. Brown, reference coordinator, recently gathered statistics about usage of electronic government documents cataloged in Penrose Library's OPAC. See Christopher C. Brown, "Knowing Where They're Going: Statistics for Online Government Document Access through the OPAC," Online Information Review 28, 6 (2004): 396-409.
27. Christopher C. Brown and Elizabeth S. Meagher, metadata and materials processing librarian, are preparing for publication an article on the process of gathering usages statistics for free online resources through the library's OPAC.