1.Rebecca K. Miller Carolyn MeierFaculty Development InstituteVirginia TechMarch 2012

2. About Us Rebecca K. Miller is the College Librarian for Science, Life Sciences, and Engineering Carolyn Meier is the First Year Experience Librarian 3. Session Overview The current state of e-books E-books in higher education Searching for e-books in Addison E-book packages at University Libraries Accessing University Libraries e-books Beyond University Libraries 4. E-Books: A History Lets look at an infographic:http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/03/17/the-40-year-history-of-ebooks-illustrated/ E-books have been around for 30 years The advent of devoted e-readers has changed the game 5. Video: The Future of the Bookhttp://vimeo.com/15142335 6. Recent Bowker Study Australia, India, UK, and US are world leaders in e-book adoption rates20% of respondent havepurchased an e-book in the past 6 months 1/3 respondents in the US and UK indicated theywould be buying an e-book soon In UK and US, purchase rates are highest among 24-35year olds Genre: in UK and Australia, concentration on adultfiction; in India and South Korea, concentration onprofessional and academic 7. Libraries & E-books Libraries want to deliver resources to users, no matterwhere they are; e-books aid in this endeavor E-books also play a role in libraries new visions of waythat library space can be used E-books are often purchased in packages Recent LRG report: 64% of libraries are reportingrising demand from patrons for e-book access (upfrom 41% last year) 8. Three Layers A recent EDUCAUSE review article (see resources) identified three layers of e-reading: Hardware Software & controls Content 9. Hardware What do you read e-books on? Computer? Dedicated e-reader? Tablet? Study v. Trade Reading Optimal study reading device: 10 in. or larger color screen at least 5-8 hours of battery life adequate entry mechanism (keyboard, mouse) 32 GB or more memory multitasking In shorta laptop! 10. Software & Controls Highlighting Tagging Full text searching Accessibility (visual and physical) Also includes: DRM Special software needed to read book (e.g. Adobe Digital Editions or Schubert) 11. Content Currently, less than 20% of content requested byfaculty is available in a digital format The content that IS available is mainly staticreproductions of the print textbooknot at all thevision of the future e-book Whats more: some content that is available forindividual purchase is not yet available forinstitutional purchase 12. Students Using TextbooksAnother infographic!http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/a-look-at-students-using-etextbooks-infographic_b21348 13. Searching for E-books in Addison 14. A word on Addison When we receive e-book updates from thesepackages, sometimes there can be a backlog in addingthe records to Addison (the library catalog). If youre looking for a tech manual, for example, or aSpringerLink book, check Safari and SpringerLinkbefore requesting a book via ILL 15. E-Book Packages at UniversityLibraries ACS Symposium Series APA PsycBOOKS Gale Center for Research Libraries EBL Ebooks on EBSCOhost ebrary CRC Engineering Handbooks Online HathiTrust Digital Library Knovel National Academies Press Safari Books Online SpringLink eBooks Synthesis Digital Library And even morehttp://www.lib.vt.edu/find/byformat/ebooks.html 16. A word on users & accounts Multi- v. single-user Creating an account Checking out a book 17. E-book packages at UniversityLibraries: http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/byformat/ebooks.html 18. HathiTrust & Summon HathiTrust Digital Library full-text indexed inSummon About 20% is fully accessible (no subscription needed) Several browsable collections:http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb 19. Digital Rights Management Essentially restricts the way you can interact with aPDFs content: Printing Downloading Viewing Checkout period 20. Adobe Digital Editions Is required by some e-book providers, like Ebsco E-books Is used to manage the e-b0oks, and recognize theDRM restrictions placed on this content Is available:http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/?autoPrompt=true Our recommendation? Go ahead and install it if youthink you may use any type of e-book soon 21. Adobe Digital Editions 22. Schubert|it Plugin for Mac recommended for use with Ebsco E- books: http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ 23. Beyond University Libraries:Free, on the web Project Gutenberg National Academies Press Google Books OpenLibrary Some of HathiTrust 24. Beyond University Libraries:Overdrive, through the PL 25. E-readers 26. PDFs and Documents on Kindle Add through USB Add through free personal document service:yourname@free.kindle.com (Kindles email address) Will not work on free Kindle applications 27. PDFs and Documents on Nook Need Adobe Digital Editions Drag & drop Will sometimes be distorted 28. Nook and Kindle on iPad The Kindle and Nook apps have some restrictions With Kindle, cannot use the new Lending Library or the free Personal Document Service Basically, allow you to sync with what you are readingon your dedicated e-reader 29. More on the iPad Reading e-books from University Libraries on an iPad, or other tablet, should be relatively simple. Simply pull up the material (PDF, html), and then read it as you would on another computer. Tablet v. dedicated e-reader 30. Final Thoughts We will only be adding more and more e-content inthe coming years Most, if not all, can easily be accessed through adesk/laptop, but were still seeing how publishers workwith tablets and dedicated e-readers Right now, the e-book landscape is incrediblydiverseno two platforms are alike! If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact one ofus at University Libraries! 31. Resources EDUCAUSE. (2011). E-books: Overview. Retrieved fromhttp://www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/EBooks/30539 McCarthy, D. (March/April 2011). E-reading: the transition in higher education. EDUCAUSEReview, 46(2). Retrieved fromhttp://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume46/iMobilePerspectivesOnebooksibr/226161 Head, A.J., and Eisenberg, M.B. (October 2011). Balancing act: how college students managetechnology while in library during crunch time. Project Information Literacy Research Report.Retrieved from http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2011_TechStudy_FullReport1.1.pdf Keller, M. (7 Mar., 2011). Library consortia begin to vote against HarperCollins ebook checkout policy.Libraryjournal.com. Retrieved from http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889582-264/library_consortia_begin_to_vote.html.csp Li, C., et al. (May 2011). Springer e-book pilot project: reader assessment subcomittee. Retrievedfrom http://www.cdlib.org/services/uxdesign/docs/2011/academic_ebook_usage_survey.pdf Polanka, S. (27 Mar., 2012). Bowker releases results of global ebook research. Retrieved fromhttp://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2012/03/27/bowker-releases-results-of-global-ebook-research/ Polanka, S. (20 Mar., 2012). New LRG study. Retrieved fromhttp://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2012/03/20/new-lrg-study-74-of-libraries-report-increased-demand-for-electronic-offerings/#more-4528 32. Questions?Contact us!Rebecca K. Millermillerrk@vt.eduhttp://rebeccakatemiller.comCarolyn Meiercmeier@vt.edu