An Account and Analysis of the Implementation of Various E‐Book Business Models at Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Borchert, Martin; Cleary, Colleen

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“…However, the complexities around it, particularly while the model was still in its infancy, originally deterred us from adopting it. These included the high workload required to pre-select a pool of titles, the question of how to handle de-duplication against titles already in the collection, the uncertainty of whether titles in the pool would be used and the quality of the metrics provided to make selection decisions at the end of the access period (Borchert & Cleary, 2015;Robbeloth et al, 2017;Spratt et al, 2017;Tran & Guo, 2021). Not least, the difficulty of having to commit a large sum of money up-front and how to deal with it in terms of shrinking budgets has also always been a significant challenge.…”

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Print Books and Ebooks: The New Equilibrium in an Academic Library

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Sallenbach

2023

Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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This article looks back at ALIA's prediction from 2013 that 'library print and ebook collections will establish a 50:50 equilibrium by 2020 and that this balance will be maintained for the foreseeable future' in the light of the experience at Curtin University Library. It revisits the findings of an article on the same topic published in 2015, and documents the situation at Curtin Library as at 2022. It describes changes in the ebook environment and user attitudes over the past 6 years, as well as developments in the Library's acquisition strategies and methods to increase ebook holdings, and the current state of the collection. The article finally provides a likely projection of the ebook and print book holdings situation at Curtin Library in 2050.

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