Adapting to E-Books
- Editore:
Routledge
- EAN:
9780415483780
- ISBN:
0415483786
- Pagine:
- 296
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Adapting to E-Books
Electronic books are now having a major impact on library collections. This book provides models for acquisitions policies and reports on several surveys of faculty and librarian attitudes toward e-books. It discusses issues in acquiring cataloguing and collection development regarding this important new library resource.
Its subject matter deals with the different types of e-books, statistical data available for e-book usage, the development of e-book collections, learning environments, integrating e-books into local catalogues, acquisitions and usage monitoring of e-books.
This book will be of interest to librarians across all educational sectors, library science scholars and e-book publishers.
This book was published as a special issue of The Acquisitions Librarian.