Journal articles about ebooks

Aslib Proceedings. Vol. 59, No.6 2007
What do faculty and students really think about ebooks?
Report of a large scale survey conducted as part of the CIBER SuperBook project at UCL that preceded the current JISC ebooks project that we are taking part in.

Update. Vol. 6 (11) November 2007
Ebooks: setting up the national observatory project.
Caren Milloy on the process of setting up the JISC ebooks project, and why there are so few ebooks in the collection. (Note: there is a typo in the article - there are 36 ebooks in the collection, not 136!)

Serials. Vol.20 No. 2 July 2007
E-textbooks: opportunities, innovations, distractions and dilemmas.
Why do students still rely on printed textbooks and what might replace the textbook in future? Is the idea of an 'ebook' distracting publishers from thinking about the possibilities of alternative forms of digital courseware?

A European view of Google, more on library 2.0, some advice on distance learner support, and a little stress and violence.

Google and the myth of universal search. By Jean-Noel Jeanneney. 025.04
The President of the Biblioteque nationale de France on how Google is organising the world's information and whether efforts should be made to develop a European search engine.

Library 2.0 and beyond. Edited by Nancy Courtney, 025.02
Explores some of the tools and, more importantly, the attitudes that contribute to xcreating a library 2.0 environment.

Going the distance : library instruction for remote learners. Edited by Susan J. Clayton. 025.5
Librarians share their experience of designing, delivering, collaborating and assessing instruction for distance learners.

Managing stress and conflict in libraries. By Sheila Pantry. 023.9
A guide to risk assessment and how to deal with violence and aggression in the library. (A book I thought we should have, but hope we won't need!)