July 2008 library staff presentation

1. UCD Library eBooks day July 25 th 2008

3. Timetable Part One : general overview Info Skills Room Health Sciences 10.00 eBooks overview: key developments; key projects; key reports; key websites and blogs Ros Pan UCD eBooks Group final report Ros Pan What approach are other Irish university libraries taking? Ros Pan 11.00 COFFEE provided Part Two: key UCD eBook activities now 11.20 eBooks and IRM, management and discovery. Progress to date, challenges and plans John-Paul Kiernan & Eoin McCarney 11.40 Checking and selecting individual eBook titles: towards mainstreaming. Report on the HSS pilot going live in September Lorna Dodd 12.00 eBooks: the Special Collections perspective Evelyn Flanagan 12.10 The subject eBooks package. An update on what we have and is planned, plus a chance to try some of these out using worksheets in the info skills room Lorna Dodd, Tony Eklof, Julia Barrett 13.00 END

8. “ We are aiming to integrate author-generated content with the author's own"book" content--through our Author Assistant and our Browse Inside applications available on harpercollins.com. We think it makes the most sense for readers to have an integrated experience of book and author --why should they have to go to one site to look at the book, and many others to hear the author's voice?”

9. Access to the content of the book not the whole title

10. Taken to the section on your topic..

11. PsycINFO to PsycBOOKS

16. Library current use by students - How often do you pay a visit to your university library, physically or virtually? All student users (n=15,842) (from JISC survey, 2008)

17. Library current use by students - How often do you pay a visit to your university library, physically or virtually? All teacher users (n=1,844).) (from JISC survey, 2008) Staff really are deserting the physical library, although obviously not in all subject areas. Online access has clearly become absolutely central to their scholarly experience.

18. Why do you go to the library [in person]? All student library users (n=15,508)

24. Recent comparisons

29. First some SuperBook preliminary survey results…. Experience of using eBooks

32. What sort of eBooks did they use?

34. There are also downsides…

35. Perception of eBooks v print

36. How users found out about eBooks – overall

37. How many DID find out about Library eBooks? Students, especially at Masters’ (41%) or undergraduate (34%) level are much more aware of elibrary book provision than are academic (24%) and research staff (21%). engineering sciences (41%) and social and historical sciences (38%) are the most e-book aware, life sciences (22%) and mathematical and physical sciences (20%) the least

39. How should the Library market eBooks?

43. How long were users online reading the eBooks?

45. Deep log analysis – routes to eBooks

47. Do you use eBooks? n=20000

49. How many eBooks have you used in the last month ( n=10,947)

50. Last time you read an eBook, how did you get hold of it? n=12,026 92% of eBook use of the last book was for work or study purposes

51. How did you read the contents of e-books ( n =12,042) Students Teachers I read the contents from a screen 62.6 57.8 I printed the contents and read from paper 6.4 6.5 A bit of both 30.6 35.3 I don’t remember 0.5 0.5

52. How long do you think you spend reading an e-book from the screen in one session? ( n =12,038)

53. How much of the last e-book you viewed did you read online? ( n =12,014)

54. Library resources OF ALL KINDS are not the most popular - How dependent are you on the following information resources to complete your academic assignments? All students (n=15,828) rating on scale 1-4

55. Where do you mostly access your university library online? All student and teacher users (n=16,892). Turning to the virtual library, staff and students exhibit very different locational preferences. The value to students of being able to access library services at home is very clear

56. Have you used any of the electronic books that are available from your university library? All students and teachers (n=16,904).

57. How did you first find out about them? All student and teacher users (n=7,689). This figure confirms an earlier finding of the UCL SuperBook study, that the library catalogue is an important vector for discovering e-books. The library website and staff contact are also very influential.

58. UCD information..

60. Books.google.ie

66. WIT and Google Books links…

79. Coffee break!