Factors Influencing the Usage of an Electronic Book Collection: Size of the E-Book Collection, the Student Population, and the Faculty Population

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Auteur principal: Lamothe, Alain R.
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contents Factors Influencing the Usage of an Electronic Book Collection: Size of the E-Book Collection, the Student Population, and the Faculty Population Lamothe, Alain R. Electronic Publishing Books Library Materials Academic Libraries Use Studies Influences College Faculty Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Foreign Countries This paper presents the results of a quantitative and systematic investigation exploring online e-book usage at the J.N. Desmarais Library of Laurentian University over a 9-year period. The size of an e-book collection was determined to show evidence of an extremely strong relationship with the level of usage e-books experienced. Of all factors examined during the course of this study, it was the size of the collection that exhibited the strongest association to usage levels and would suggest just how important the size and content of a collection can be to patron acceptance and utilization. Of all student academic levels, doctoral students exhibited the strongest relationship with e-book usage, while undergraduate students showed signs of the weakest. Faculty demonstrated the overall weakest relationship with e-book usage.
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spellingShingle Factors Influencing the Usage of an Electronic Book Collection: Size of the E-Book Collection, the Student Population, and the Faculty Population
Lamothe, Alain R.
Electronic Publishing
Books
Library Materials
Academic Libraries
Use Studies
Influences
College Faculty
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Foreign Countries
Factors Influencing the Usage of an Electronic Book Collection: Size of the E-Book Collection, the Student Population, and the Faculty Population Lamothe, Alain R. Electronic Publishing Books Library Materials Academic Libraries Use Studies Influences College Faculty Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Foreign Countries This paper presents the results of a quantitative and systematic investigation exploring online e-book usage at the J.N. Desmarais Library of Laurentian University over a 9-year period. The size of an e-book collection was determined to show evidence of an extremely strong relationship with the level of usage e-books experienced. Of all factors examined during the course of this study, it was the size of the collection that exhibited the strongest association to usage levels and would suggest just how important the size and content of a collection can be to patron acceptance and utilization. Of all student academic levels, doctoral students exhibited the strongest relationship with e-book usage, while undergraduate students showed signs of the weakest. Faculty demonstrated the overall weakest relationship with e-book usage.
title Factors Influencing the Usage of an Electronic Book Collection: Size of the E-Book Collection, the Student Population, and the Faculty Population
topic Electronic Publishing
Books
Library Materials
Academic Libraries
Use Studies
Influences
College Faculty
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Foreign Countries
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1066055