... 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 of electronic core...

...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 Several real-world scenarios where libraries have provided first-rate services beyond the building to satisfy the ever-expanding expectations...

... Publishing Limited 2013 Libraries E-books Publishing Accessibility Print disabled Digital publishing E-publishing Other presentations were equally educational. Iris Febres (F+W Media) brought everyone up to date on advances in ebook technology by contrasting the latest versions of EPUB...

... comprised a couple of paragraphs from the book, a separate dictionary and a separate list of rehearsal questions derived from the material at the end, all put together in a paper reader. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Electronic publishing Digital libraries Learning E-books...

... to design, write, model and shape e‐books for students. In order to do so, four major tests were executed. The first test was an attempt to measure the ease of reading huge amounts of content rich text from an e‐ink reader. In this case, we did not use educational texts but political documents. Here we used...

... Libraries Textbooks Affordability Cost E‐books Custom textbooks Reserves Books On September 27, 2012, “Students at the University of California at Berkeley protested the rising cost of textbooks and petitioned for more affordable solutions to be implemented on college campuses” (CBS San...

... and Smith, 2005 , 2006 ; Johnson et al., 2007 , 2008, 2009 ; Johnson et al., 2010 , 2011) provided important hints as it is a comprehensive source about future technologies in higher education. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Media Acceptance E‐books E‐journals...

...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...