TY - JOUR
T1 - Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Entertainment
T2 - An Academic Library's Experience With a Popular Reading Ebook Resource
AU - Proctor, Julia
AU - Barstow, Sandra
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Ebooks pose many challenges in library collection development, mostly due to the lack of standards and the many different platforms available. These challenges are faced by both public and academic libraries, but the challenges inherent in collecting popular reading ebooks can be different from the challenges that come with collecting scholarly ebooks. This article describes the purpose and processes behind an academic library, University of Wyoming Libraries, providing popular reading ebooks to its faculty and students, and focuses on the experience of being a 3M Cloud Library early adopter.
AB - Ebooks pose many challenges in library collection development, mostly due to the lack of standards and the many different platforms available. These challenges are faced by both public and academic libraries, but the challenges inherent in collecting popular reading ebooks can be different from the challenges that come with collecting scholarly ebooks. This article describes the purpose and processes behind an academic library, University of Wyoming Libraries, providing popular reading ebooks to its faculty and students, and focuses on the experience of being a 3M Cloud Library early adopter.
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U2 - 10.1080/01930826.2013.882193
DO - 10.1080/01930826.2013.882193
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84894419631
SN - 0193-0826
VL - 53
SP - 401
EP - 411
JO - Journal of Library Administration
JF - Journal of Library Administration
IS - 7-8
ER -