Electronic book usage in public libraries: a study of user and staff reactions to a PDA-based collection  

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Dearnley, James ; McKnight, Cliff ; Morris, Anne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science vol. 36 no. 4 (2008), page 175-182.
Fulltext: 175.pdf (149.26KB)

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This article reports on one aspect of a Laser Foundation-funded research project that tested different models of e-book delivery and offered guidelines for developing e-book collections in UK public libraries. An e-book collection was offered to library users (primarily, users relying on a mobile library service) on Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices at Essex County Libraries. The article considers reaction from both library users and staff. A number of positive and negative reactions to e-books were noted, and the indicative results point to the conclusion that dedicated PDA collections still offer questionable benefits for use in public libraries.

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