Are We There Yet? Moving to an E-Only Collection Development Policy for Books

Moore, Kate

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2015.1016836

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“…Highlighting and note-making by hand can enhance engagement and absorption of text (Hobbs and Klare, 2016), and Moore (2015: 129) identifies that there is link between print book preference and subject studied, in addition to age and academic status.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Higher education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs

Casselden

Pears

2019

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Ebooks have enthusiastically been adopted by academic libraries, viewed as a golden bullet by library professionals, resulting in efficient resource use, space saving, student satisfaction and accommodating millennial generation study habits. A small-scale online survey undertaken at Northumbria and Durham Universities investigated students’ ebook use, examining aspects of learning ebooks support, searching strategies, devices used for ebook access, and reading and use strategies. Ninety-two responses were analysed using a mixed methods approach. Despite many advantages of ebooks including portability, availability, functionality and searching, results, demonstrated sentiment regarding ebooks was not wholly positive. There were frustrations regarding the complexity of ebook provision, publisher’s restrictions and the lack of compatibility with reading devices. A key finding related to ebook interrogation which involved greater targeted searching of content and a ‘bite-size’ approach to reading. Caution must be observed to ensure that library collections facilitate a complexity of learning styles, and provide opportunities for students to better digest content.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Higher education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs

Casselden

Pears

2019

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…In particular, studies conducted by Moore as well as Kimball, Ives, and Jackson pointed out that patrons' usage preference is strongly related to the topic of the book, patrons' academic status, and, most importantly, the purpose of the book. 15 The case study conducted by the Utrecht University Library revealed that researchers in humanities acquire and use paper format materials a lot more than other disciplines, while other case studies showed that most users prefer using academic resources electronically. 16 When comparing usage preference for print books versus their digital coun-terparts, both faculty and students were found to prefer digital format for searching and scanning information and paper format for perusing a large portion of the book.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Statistical Analysis of Patrons’ In-Library Information Consumption Behaviors of Print Materials

Luo

2021

CRL

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Patrons' information consumption behaviors of print materials are influenced by their content and tangible characteristics. This quantitative study incorporates several content-based factors widely adopted in collection management practices as well as two physical dimension-related factors, including book size and number of pages, and applies a series of regression analyses to evaluate the relative impact of these factors on patrons' checkout versus in-library use decisions. The results suggest that shelf time and book size exhibit consistent and significant impact on patrons' use of print materials. These findings can shed further light on collection management practices and policies in academic libraries striving to provide patrons more usercentered collections and space.

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“…An effective library collection development policy should be prioritized to meet the demand of the local users to ensure the sustainability of a library (Posner, 2019). University's library should understand that while users' preference plays a crucial role in library collection development policy, preferences are not fixed (Moore, 2015). It is possible to change by increasing the convenience of users' (Moore, 2015).…”

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“…With the technology development, growth of electronic facilities and free resources available, this has brought about to the decline ratios of book utilization in all libraries worldwide. An understanding of the preferences that influence users' behavior regarding library formats, sometimes technological factors also play a crucial role to influence users' behavior (Moore, 2015;Yuan et al, 2018). Considered to the inherent issues and motivational factors that influence users' behaviors and preferences, this study will support libraries in developing a user-centered approach by acting proactively to influence users' behavior positively (Connaway & Randall, 2013).…”

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Does University Students Prefer Printed Reference Book Over Online Materials? A Case Study of Private Higher Learning Institution

Mustafa¹,

Mohd²,

Haron³

2021

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The sole purpose of a resource centre or library in any higher education institution is to enhance a learning environment and support teaching, learning and research activities. Over the years, higher education institutions keep on increasing their possession of reference material in them of reference materials in their libraries for the use of students, academics and staff that include both printed and online materials. Due to this fact, it is a goal of every library to ensure that those materials are fully utilized by its users. However, with the growth of electronic facilities and resources in libraries, it is time to determine the factors that influence users’ library materials preference. This study adopts a descriptive research design with survey samples from the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. Our study reveals that users’ perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use play a crucial role to influence their intention to choose a library resource format where attitude fully mediates the relationship between these variables. This study also identified a partial mediating effect of desire between users’ attitudes and intentions. It also found that organizational characteristics have a significant effect on users’ perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Overall, by focusing on the underlying mechanisms of the theories TAM, TPB, and TSR in library resource format choosing behaviour context this study proposes an integrated model, contributes to both theories, and practices in library management.

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Are We There Yet? Moving to an E-Only Collection Development Policy for Books

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Higher education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs

Higher education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs

A Statistical Analysis of Patrons’ In-Library Information Consumption Behaviors of Print Materials

Does University Students Prefer Printed Reference Book Over Online Materials? A Case Study of Private Higher Learning Institution

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