Olney-Zide, MollyEiford, Laura2016-05-162016-05-16Copyright2015-05-19Molly 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.2015.10256560361-526X ; e- 1541-1095http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17720Author's accepted manuscriptAlthough 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.en-USThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Serials Librarian on May 19, 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/0361526X.2015.1025656.CC BY-NC 4.0Article10.1080/0361526X.2015.1025656