Confessions of a Late Bloomer: Use and Acceptance of an E-books Program in an Undergraduate Library

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2015-05-19
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Taylor & Francis
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Although e-books date back to the 1970s, the peak of academic adoption was in the early to mid 2000s. At the beginning of the 2012/2013 academic year, the Franklin & Marshall (F&M) College Library had roughly 500,000 print volumes cataloged and only 12 e-books. By the end of that year, the catalog contained approximately 120,000 e-books. In February 2014, the F&M College Library conducted a campus-wide survey about e-books. By comparing these results with F&M’s usage statistics, the Library found practical suggestions on how to improve current acceptance and usage of e-books.
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Molly Olney-Zide & Laura Eiford (2015). Confessions of a Late Bloomer: Use and Acceptance of an E-Books Program in an Undergraduate Library, The Serials Librarian, 68:1-4, 307-317, DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2015.1025656