TY - BOOK ID - 58459143 TI - Academic E-Books : Stepping up to the Challenge AU - Nixon, Judith M. AU - Freeman, Robert S. AU - Ward, Suzanne M. PY - 2015 SN - 9781612494289 1612494285 9781612494296 1612494293 9781557537270 1557537275 1557538948 9781557538949 PB - West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Libraries KW - Academic libraries KW - Scholarly electronic publishing. KW - Libraries and electronic publishing. KW - Bibliothèques KW - Bibliothèques universitaires KW - Edition électronique savante KW - Bibliothèques et édition électronique KW - Special collections KW - Electronic books. KW - Collection development. KW - Fonds spéciaux KW - Livres numériques KW - Développement des collections KW - College libraries KW - Libraries, University and college KW - University libraries KW - Libraries and colleges KW - Public libraries KW - Electronic publishing and libraries KW - Electronic publishing KW - Electronic scholarly publishing KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Scholarly publishing KW - Collection development (Libraries) KW - Documentation KW - Public institutions KW - Librarians KW - Services to colleges and universities KW - Library special collections KW - Special collections in libraries KW - Library resources KW - Special collections. KW - Electronic books KW - Scholarly electronic publishing KW - Libraries and electronic publishing KW - Collection development KW - Libraries - Special collections - Electronic books KW - Academic libraries - Collection development KW - Academic libraries - United States - Case studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:58459143 AB - "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"-- ER -