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Electronic book usage in public libraries

a study of user and staff reactions to a PDA-based collection

James Dearnley

Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, j.a.dearnley{at}lboro.ac.uk

Cliff McKnight

Department of Information Science at Loughborough University

Anne Morris

Department of Information Science at Lough-borough University

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.

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Vol. 36, No. 4, 175-182 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0961000604050568
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C. Mcknight, J. Dearnley, and A. Morris
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