Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Update on Update

Update Vol. 7 No.4 April 2008
Aggre-culture: what do e-book aggregators offer?

A comparison of the major ebook aggregators and how they are addressing issues in the growth of the ebook market.

Update Vol.7 No.7-8 July/August 2008
The Big Draw

Leeds Met Library did something very unlibrarylike - they invited art students (who, they say sometimes don't feel the library is 'for them') in to create art!


Tuesday, 5 February 2008

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?