Aligning Collections with Student Needs: East Carolina University's Project to Acquire and Promote Online Access to Course-Adopted Texts

Carr, Patrick L.; Cardin, James; Shouse, Daniel L.

doi:10.1080/00987913.2015.1128381

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“…Multiple dissertation authors also referred to classics such as Burns's Leadership and recent widely-read books like Senge's The Fifth Discipline. Joyner Library collection managers will seriously consider obtaining at least some editions of the most-often used research methods texts, not only because of the present study, but also in light of the library's Course-Adopted eTextbook program (Carr, Cardin, & Shouse, 2016).…”

Section: Implications For Library Collections and Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Student Use of Library-Provided Materials in EdD Dissertations

Thomas

Shouse

2019

NCL

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One of the tools collection managers can use to guide the selection and retention of books and journals is citation analysis. Although time-consuming to collect and analyze, citations by library users provide compelling evidence for keeping certain titles or growing collection support for specific subject areas, and may provide a good sense of which materials may be safely weeded. Citation analysis can also give an indication of how well the collection is meeting the needs of the students of the home institution. Research at East Carolina University confirms that the library provides substantial electronic journal coverage and somewhat less satisfactory monograph availability. Future research on the impact of open access is suggested, as well as an examination of the methods dissertation authors are using to access materials.

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Section: Implications For Library Collections and Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Student Use of Library-Provided Materials in EdD Dissertations

Thomas

Shouse

2019

NCL

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“…For the spring semester of 2015, East Carolina's Assistant Director for Acquisitions and Collection Management spearheaded a pilot program to acquire CATs to provide an electronic copy of required materials at no direct cost to the students (Carr, Cardin, & Shouse, 2016). This pilot began after the authors recognized how libraries have "traditionally done little or nothing" to provide students with materials that are required for courses, so they decided to focus on selecting, acquiring, and promoting 73 multiuser e-book versions of scholarly monographs that had been assigned as required course readings (Carr et al, 2016, p. 1).…”

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confidence: 99%

Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches

Thomas

Bernhardt

2018

Technical Services Quarterly

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Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received a 2-year grant to support a combined alternative textbook project. This project engages in a two-pronged approach to reduce students' textbook costs and increase their academic engagement. One strategy is to award departmental faculty mini-grants to use materials that would have no cost to their students, including OER or library resources. The second strategy is to identify required texts that the library already owns or can purchase as unlimited-user e-books. Benefits to students include reduced costs and an increased opportunity for engagement and academic success.

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“…Purchasing multiple e-books and cross departmental collaboration is a solution suggested by Riha and LeMay 33 . Carr 34 , et al observed that the rapidly increasing cost of courseadopted texts as well as the evolving models and platforms for acquiring e-books offer libraries new opportunities to support students' learning needs.…”

Section: E-books Collection Developmentmentioning

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Trends in E-book Research

Kumbhar

2018

DJLIT

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The research intended to identify current trends in research on e-books. Specifically it aimed to know the facets of e-books attended to by the research published during 2016. It also intended to review significant results and their supportive or contradictory nature with reference to each other.For this review research literature on e-books was searched from LISA, Emerald, Ebsco, Google Scholar and other databases using the statement ‘e-books OR ebooks’. The query was restricted to journal articles published in English language during January to December 2016. The review finds that the focus of current research on e-books is clearly on usage of e-books. Themes such as e-book collection development and management; search and discovery are also paid more attention to. Usage of e-books by children is emerging as a prominent area of e-book research. Designing of e-books and e-book reading devices are also topics of interest to e-book researchers. Many non-LIS disciplines and professions have interest in researching e-books.

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Aligning Collections with Student Needs: East Carolina University's Project to Acquire and Promote Online Access to Course-Adopted Texts

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Student Use of Library-Provided Materials in EdD Dissertations

Student Use of Library-Provided Materials in EdD Dissertations

Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches

Trends in E-book Research

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