...-textbooks Innovation Teaching E-books Learning analytics Textbooks Books Right Here Right Now is a major strategy project at The University of Manchester Library. Underpinning this project are two fundamental aims: To improve the student experience by increasing the number...

...Valentina Gamboni Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand how to improve librarians’ skills, using an active and reflective participative process, to develop a university e-book service. This research involved librarians who could not participate in a formal learning course and explored...

... services beyond the building to satisfy the ever-expanding expectations of their users. Libraries Delivery Cloud e-books Mobile Vending After the Pikes Peak Public Library in Colorado placed its first external lending facility filled with library materials in the First and Main Town Center...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Libraries E-books Publishing Accessibility Print disabled Digital publishing E-publishing “Future Publishing and Accessibility” was held in Denmark on July 13-14, 2013. The Daisy Consortium, an international organization dedicated to promoting...

... Limited 2013 Electronic publishing Digital libraries Learning E-books Information dense texts Reading In part 1 of this report “Reading long information rich text” on the results of the research project Amsterdam E-Boekenstad (Book City) 1 the context of emerging e-reading...

... compared to print books, the purchasing patterns, etc. but does not break down the usages of e‐books into genres. A major extra problem is that e‐reading devices are developing so fast that many negative experiences of only a couple of years ago are now often no longer an issue at all, such as the loading...

... on this topic among stakeholders in their efforts to reach a satisfactory resolution. Originality/value The value in addressing this issue is to acknowledge the library's position as a stakeholder in the exchange of ideas on textbook affordability. Libraries Textbooks Affordability Cost E‐books...

... show the strongest differences (Figure 3). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Media Acceptance E‐books E‐journals Web 2.0 University Tablet Student User studies Library users Germany The rapid and ubiquitous diffusion of digital media into higher education has led...

...Hilary J. Westgate Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on panels and discussions about e‐books taking place at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair. Design/methodology/approach The author chose to attend several panels discussing the current issues and the future of e‐books, particularly...

...Jessica E. Moyer; Jennifer Thiele Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of current research on the use of e‐books and e‐book readers as they gain popularity in libraries. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a literature review and a case study of a public library which has...