1. E-Books Revisited: Surveying Student E-Book Usage in a Distributed Learning Academic Library 6 Years Later.
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Croft, Rosie and Davis, Corey
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ELECTRONIC books , *ACADEMIC library use studies , *DISTANCE education students , *SURVEYS , *COLLEGE student attitudes , *RESEARCH of books , *LIBRARY statistics ,ROYAL Roads University (Victoria, B.C.) - Abstract
This article is the result of a 2009 survey of student usage of e-books at Royal Roads University (RRU) Library. The authors found that the proportion of students using RRU Library e-books has gone up since a similar 2003 survey, although only just above half of students are using RRU Library e-books. An almost identical number of student respondents (approximately 54%) said “no” to preferring a print version of the book over the e-book version of the book in both the 2003 and 2009 surveys. The majority of students rated the ability to download an e-book to a hand-held device as not important. There has been a notable increase in the use of e-books for course readings from 2003 to 2009. A lack of awareness of RRU Library e-books remains the top reason cited by students for not using them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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