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Electronic books: challenges for academic libraries

Ray Lonsdale (Ray Lonsdale is Reader in the Department of Information and Library Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth SY23 3AS, UK. E‐mail: rel@aber.ac.uk)
Chris Armstrong (Chris Armstrong is Managing Director of the Centre for Information Quality Management and Information Automation Limited, Penbryn, Bronant, Aberystwyth SY23 4TJ, UK. E‐mail: lisqual@cix.xo.uk)

Library Hi Tech

ISSN: 0737-8831

Publication date: 1 December 2001

Abstract

This paper, based on three recent research projects, addresses some of the issues that are central to the acceptance and integration of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks (henceforth, referred to as e‐monographs) into the academic library. The findings suggest that the almost casual use of terms like “digital library” and “hybrid library” belies the reality of a slow acceptance of nearly all digital textual resources other than journals, and a demonstrable lack of user take up of most kinds of electronic library‐information resources.

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Lonsdale, R. and Armstrong, C. (2001), "Electronic books: challenges for academic libraries", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 332-339. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830110412113

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MCB UP Ltd

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