Saving students money with ebooks: A cross-departmental collaboration between interlibrary loan and course reserve

Riha, Emily; LeMay, Danika

doi:10.1080/07317131.2016.1203644

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“…Nevertheless, 61% of the customers responded to the email indicating that they still wanted us to get them a print copy, and did not want an eBook version. This revelation is in contrast with Riha and LeMay's (2016) study, they found their customers appear to use eBooks over print materials when the library provides a choice.…”

Section: Our Customers' Format Preferencecontrasting

confidence: 75%

Change your Service Policies Based on your Data

Yang

2018

Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electroni

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Texas A&M University (TAMU) Libraries' free "Get it for me" service is popular and appreciated by its students and faculty alike. Nevertheless, we noticed many items were not picked up after receipt. In the spring semester of 2016, for each item not picked up, we emailed our customers to ask why they did not come to pick up their requests. Based on the data, we made service policy changes in the summer semester of 2016. As a result we saw a decrease in not picked up rate since. This paper explains the methods we used to achieve this improved results.

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Section: Our Customers' Format Preferencecontrasting

confidence: 75%

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Yang

2018

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“…These technological advances further enhance attitudes towards ebook use, with usage growing exponentially (Safley, 2006: 456). From the library’s perspective, ebooks provide 24/7 access to information (Ferguson, 2016), underpin distance and part-time learning modes, can meet high demand reading list access (if simultaneous multi-user access is available) (Riha and LeMay, 2016) and save on space compared to multiple print copies (Frederick, 2015).…”

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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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“…To address this significant barrier to student access to course materials, in 2016 UL convened an expert team consisting of the course reserves manager, the assistant head of acquisitions, the online learning librarian, the IT trainer, the quality assurance manager and an instructional designer to address the issue. This team initiated an eBook program (Penn State World Campus and Penn State Online, 2020) as a partnership between UL and World Campus, which replaces traditional print textbooks with unlimited-user eBooks licensed by UL, a model inspired by the Required Reading Pilot Project at the University of Minnesota (Riha and LeMay, 2016). The funding for this program initially came through a three-year memorandum of agreement through World Campus.…”

Section: Providing Students Direct Access To Course Materials World Campus Ebook Programmentioning

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Bridges to affordability: adopting a university OAER mandate with local implementation

Riehman-Murphy

Raish

Mross

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Purpose This paper aims to describe a case study of the open and affordable educational resources (OAER) initiatives led by Penn State University Libraries (UL) and implemented at its many campuses which are designed to address the challenges students experience accessing and funding their course materials. Design/methodology/approach This case study will show how a broad administrative mandate for high-level OAER initiatives created the environment for Penn State (PSU) to evolve from individual pioneering units into coordinated university-wide initiatives. This shift, spearheaded by administration with strong UL involvement, allowed for customized and targeted initiatives at its many campuses. By using UL’s centralized, but geographically dispersed, structure, library faculty and staff have been supported in their efforts to expand OAER from the ground up to meet individual contexts and campus needs. Findings As a result of its many open and affordable initiatives, PSUL has been able to demonstrate both savings and increased access for students across PSU’s many campuses and World Campus. Broad administrative support has created an environment which enabled UL faculty and staff to lead various initiatives. Originality/value UL has long been a leader and partner in open and affordability initiatives at PSU because of its core mission of providing access. By sharing the processes and logistics of how a large research institution with many campuses of various sizes implemented a wide variety of library-driven open and affordability initiatives through a centralized but geographically dispersed structure, academic libraries will be able to replicate similar initiatives in their unique contexts.

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Saving students money with ebooks: A cross-departmental collaboration between interlibrary loan and course reserve

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Change your Service Policies Based on your Data

Change your Service Policies Based on your Data

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

Bridges to affordability: adopting a university OAER mandate with local implementation

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