This bibliographic essay examines the difficulties associated with the selection, licensing, acquisition, and management of e-books in academic libraries. The potential advantages of e-book technology are likely to be realized only to the extent that they advance the economic goals of e-book suppliers and are consistent with the legal framework that has been negotiated by publishers, vendors, libraries, and readers. Many difficulties can be traced to a lack of uniformity in license terms, access restrictions, and librarians' expectations. Likewise, sustainable access to e-books is hindered by impermanent physical media, proprietary file formats and software, and restrictive license provisions. Although the goals of e-book providers are sometimes inconsistent with those of universities, librarians are well-positioned to guide vendors in the development of e-book licenses and platforms.

E-books in Academic Libraries: Challenges for Acquisition and Collection Management

As computer usage continues to grow exponentially, the desire of users to use electronic publications(e-publications) has also increased tremendously. This has led to the publication of materials in electronic formas e-publications on both CD-ROMs and web. The electronic book (e-book) is one of the several forms ofe-publications and its popularity has been growing steadily for the past decade. This bibliography providesall references of the published literature on e-books and related technologies in one source so that it will savetime for others in conducting literature searches and reviewing the developments. The information includedin this bibliography is collected systematically from all the published sources in the world such as journalarticles, conference papers, conference proceedings, books, reports and PhD theses on e-books until thelast quarter of 2011. Mainly, it covers e-books, e-books publishing, the impact of e-books on different typesof users, e-book publishing techniques and trends, e-book user interfaces and other technologies related toe-publications. This bibliography will be useful to all researchers conducting research in any areas relatedto e-books and e-book publishing. doi: 10.14429/djlit.32.2.1593

https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/article/download/1593/715

Electronic Books: A Bibliography

Numerous publications on patron-driven acquisition (PDA) for print books and similar materials have reported that patron-requested materials circulate more. Tying circulation to selector may be failing to address the complex of factors that contributes to items' circulation. In the present study, the authors revisit a PDA program's data and to determine whether PDA print books' circulation advantage persists when the potential interactions of several additional variables are taken into account. As with prior studies, library patrons were significantly better predictors of circulation than were librarians or approval plans. However, librarians proved to be significantly better predictors than were approval plans.

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Patron-Driven Acquisition and Circulation at an Academic Library: Interaction Effects and Circulation Performance of Print Books Acquired via Librarians’ Orders, Approval Plans, and Patrons’ Interlibrary Loan Requests

With the emergence of social networking and Web 2.0 applications, libraries have the means to reach users through interactive Web-based tools patrons already use in their personal lives, such as Facebook and YouTube. In this study the authors aim to understand the ways that libraries are using YouTube for outreach purposes. Using a methodology adapted from studies in medical literature, the authors identified and analyzed library promotional videos on YouTube, both in relation to other works depicting libraries and librarians and as a unique category of content. In order to analyze the viewership of library promotional videos and its growth over time, view counts were compared at three points in time over a period of sixteen months. Using data made available by YouTube, the authors analyzed the top five referring Web sites to each video, thus allowing a basic understanding of the viewership of library promotional videos and their abilities to reach intended audiences. The authors also analyzed the many in...

Measuring Libraries' Use of YouTube as a Promotional Tool: An Exploratory Study and Proposed Best Practices.

Although still a relatively new technology with less than 10 years of history, YouTube's extensive reach and integration in mainstream society as well as lifelong learning habits of online users cannot be understated This article examines how the YouTube collection at the University of British Columbia Library's Irving K Barber Learning Centre has become an exciting extension of the digital collections and services By briefly examining the history of traditional collection development at academic libraries, the author demonstrates how YouTube fits into the long continuum of library media collections in an open-access platform

YouTube and Academic Libraries: Building a Digital Collection.

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide evidence that patron‐driven acquisition is a successful collection development tool.Design/methodology/approach – The study used cost, usage, and cost per use as measurements to compare patron‐driven acquired print and electronic books with traditionally acquired print and electronic books to determine the success of five different patron‐driven methods.Findings – The study found that usage is much higher and the cost and cost per use is lower for patron‐driven acquisition methods than for traditional collection development methods.Originality/value – Collection development and acquisitions librarians can benefit from this research comparing traditional collection development methods with multiple patron‐driven acquisitions methods to better manage their resources.

When patrons call the shots: patron-driven acquisition at Brigham Young University

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assert that, in an effort to more effectively match users' needs to purchases and extend the buying power of library budgets for e‐books, libraries should use a profiled purchase on demand option to supplement their current practices.Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews usage patterns for print and e‐books, business models for e‐books and comments on the benefits of using a patron‐driven acquisitions model.Findings – Circulation of the print collection is slowly declining, with only 20 per cent of the collection circulating in 2009. Large purchased collections of e‐books statistics are roughly the same but those purchased through Patron‐Driven Acquisitions are assured use.Originality/value – The discussion of current business models for e‐books illustrates some challenges libraries face in transitioning from print to electronic. Patron‐driven models allow libraries to help users at point of need and manage scarce resources.

Electronic books: a call for effective business models

To meet the rapid evolution of visual media and changing patron expectations, Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library created Byugle, a device to stream videos to their users. This article describes the new challenges streaming video creates for librarians and the cooperative efforts of subject librarians, technical services, and the Information Technology Department as they work together to meet these challenges to provide streaming media for their patrons.

Streaming Video: The Collaborative Convergence of Technical Services, Collection Development, and Information Technology in the Academic Library

Brigham Young University's Harold B Lee Library conducted a time-task cost study to compare the cost and processing time of shelf-ready books to non-shelf-ready books to determine if it could better use its human resources and if it should expand the use of shelf-ready to include its approval books The results showed that shelf-ready was, on average, 57% cheaper, took 47% less processing time, and arrived on the shelves 33 sooner than books processed in-house Based on the results of the study, the library moved its approval books to the shelf-ready program and was able to reallocate catalogers tasks

Shelf-ready: A cost-benefit analysis

Historically, libraries have been eager to make purchases based on requests by their patrons and have used various programs to acquire the desired material. Technology now allows libraries to let patrons identify books of interest and have their access needs immediately gratified. Brigham Young University recently completed a Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) pilot in conjunction with ebrary and YBP Library Services. Eighteen thousand records were loaded into the catalog that enabled immediate access to these titles through ebrary. A purchase was triggered when a predetermined level of use was reached. This paper presents findings from the pilot in terms of types of books purchased, use rates, and interesting patterns that emerged. It addresses questions that arise out of the pilot pertaining to incorporating PDA, how it affects current notions of collection development, and considerations in implementing PDA.

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=charleston

Rebecca Schroeder

Papers

When patrons call the shots: patron-driven acquisition at Brigham Young University

Electronic books: a call for effective business models

Streaming Video: The Collaborative Convergence of Technical Services, Collection Development, and Information Technology in the Academic Library

Shelf-ready: A cost-benefit analysis

Patron Driven Acquisitions: The Future of Collection Development?