Primary Research Group has published Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition, ISBN 157440-184-X. The report looks closely at library eBook purchasing and deployment policies and includes data on overall spending, spending on particular products, the break down of spending between aggregators and individual publishers among thousands of other data points. The study include exhaustive information on library eBook purchasing plans in particular subject areas and for particular types of technologies.
Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition also gives detailed data on current and future spending plans on tablet computers, eBook readers, edirectories, etextbooks, eAudio books and many other forms of eBooks. In addition the report examines information eBook issues relating to information literacy, cataloging, interlibrary loan, course reserves, consortium relations and use and other pressing issues in eBook development and deployment. The study is based on survey data from more than 90 public, higher education and special libraries.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
• Libraries in the sample will spend a mean of $118,453 on e-books in 201l and anticipate spending a mean of $128,712 in 2012.
• Libraries sampled have a mean of 3.62 existing e-book licensing contracts with individual publishers and e-book aggregators.
• College libraries will renew a mean of 89.4% of their e-book contracts, while corporate and legal libraries will renew a mean of 67.78%.
• Among public libraries sampled, a mean of just 0.5% of e-book orders are made direct from the publisher. In comparison, 35% of orders made by corporate and legal libraries and 32.22% of those from government libraries are made this way.
• 46.48% of e-book purchases by college libraries and nearly a quarter of those made by government libraries were made through library consortia.
• Only 6.93% of libraries in the sample have ever developed a video to explain any facet of e-book use.
• Libraries in the sample have MARC records for a mean 66.01% of e-books in their collections.
• 29.11% of libraries have taken some measures to integrate e-books searches into journal article searches.
• 27.63% of libraries in the sample say that patrons use e-books about psychology occasionally and 26.32% say that they use them significantly.
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