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Higher education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Casselden, Biddy Pears, Richard |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Ebooks have enthusiastically been adopted by academic libraries, viewed as a golden bullet by library professionals, resulting in efficient resource use, space saving, student satisfaction and accommodating millennial generation study habits. A small-scale online survey undertaken at Northumbria and Durham Universities investigated students’ ebook use, examining aspects of learning ebooks support, searching strategies, devices used for ebook access, and reading and use strategies. Ninety-two responses were analysed using a mixed methods approach. Despite many advantages of ebooks including portability, availability, functionality and searching, results, demonstrated sentiment regarding ebooks was not wholly positive. There were frustrations regarding the complexity of ebook provision, publisher’s restrictions and the lack of compatibility with reading devices. A key finding related to ebook interrogation which involved greater targeted searching of content and a ‘bite-size’ approach to reading. Caution must be observed to ensure that library collections facilitate a complexity of learning styles, and provide opportunities for students to better digest content. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0961000619841429?download=true |
| Starting Page | 601 |
| Ending Page | 619 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| ISSN | 09610006 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 52 |
| Journal | Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (LIS) |
| e-ISSN | 17416477 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961000619841429 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2019-04-16 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2019 |
| Subject Keyword | digital literacy information behaviour Academic libraries electronic books higher education ebooks |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Library and Information Sciences |
