An exploration of ebook selection behavior in academic library collections

D McKay, A Hinze, R Heese, N Vanderschantz… - Theory and Practice of …, 2012 - Springer
Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: Second International Conference …, 2012Springer
… To our knowledge this aspect of ebook selection has also not been explored, surprisingly,
given that the availability of ebook transaction logs allows such a study to be conducted
post hoc so as to avoid disturbing the experience of those using an ebook collection. This
paper describes exactly such a study based on the transaction logs of a university library
ebook collection. In Section 2 of this paper we explore the previous research on ebook
usage and book selection (both physical and electronic); in Section 3 we describe the …
Abstract
Academic libraries have offered ebooks for some time, however little is known about how readers interact with them while making relevance decisions. In this paper we seek to address that gap by analyzing ebook transaction logs for books in a university library.
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