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This report looks closely at the eBook purchasing and deployment
practices of libraries. The study presents detailed data on eBook and eBook
technology purchasing and plans, and presents data for spending on particular
aggregators and for particular types of technology. The study breaks down
purchasing between aggregators and individual publishers and also presents data
on purchasing plans for various subject areas, as well as for eDirectories,
eAudio books and eTextbooks.
The report also gives extensive information on use of and
purchasing plans for eBook readers, tablet computers and eBook enabled
smartphone technology, among other areas. Data are highly specific and broken
out for many different types of product and manufacturer.
The study also covers how libraries are developing eBook
collection plans, integrating eBooks into course reserves, developing
information literacy training, and handling interlibrary loan plans, including
use of eBook "borrowing" sites.
Just a few of the many findings from this 110-page report are:
- Approximately 46.5% of libraries
have a current contract for eBooks with NetLibrary/Ebsco.
- Government libraries spent an
average of $142.86 on eBooks and other electronic documents from
Amazon.com in the past year; public libraries spent an average of just
$2.11 in this time.
- A mean of 75.21% of the total
eBook spending by libraries in the sample was spent with aggregators that
offer books from many publishers.
- 16.83% of libraries currently
offer Apple iPads to patrons or staff, and 10.89% plan to acquire them in
the next year.
- In the upcoming year, libraries in
the sample plan to spend a mean of approximately $4,453 on electronic
directories.
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