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Feature e-book Articles
A Study of Reading with Dedicated E-Readers (2001) by Miriam Scholnik. This 150 page work based on her own survey plus a study of the literature, deals with such questions as how people actually read with e-reader devices, what they read, what effect the technology has on the manner of reading and what type of texts read best in them. Our friends at Planet eBook made Miriam's full dissertation available as a 2.2Mb .pdf file at:
http://www.planetebook.com/downloads/schcolnik.pdfAcademic Libraries Take an E-Look at E-books
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:WPv2Iw_HR34J:www.geocities.com/lbell927/+Academic+Libraries+Take+an+E-Look+at+E-Books&hl=en&ie=UTF-8Beyond the Four Functions: Academic Uses for a PDA
http://www.usd.edu/library/instruction/pdaindex.shtmlCan E-Books Improve Libraries?
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/central/ebooksData Collection in Public Libraries Using Handhelds http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/seworkspace/lundqust/315/PDA.html
E-book acceptance: what will make users read on screen? by Paul Mercieca, Vic. 2004.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/32Merci.PDFE-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview by Lucia Snowhill, " What will make e-books a viable part of academic library collections?…" D-Lib Magazine July/August 2001. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july01/snowhill/07snowhill.html
E-Books: Are They Right for Your Library? by Gillian Davis, April 17, 2001 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/9460/65917
E-books and the academic market: the emerging supply chain by David Taylor. Describes the supply chain mentioned & what both publishers and booksellers need to do to secure their place within it. Learned Publishing Volume 16 Number 1, Jan. 2003. http://lysander.ingentaselect.com/vl=776761/cl=21/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=alpsp&reqidx=/cw/alpsp/09531513/v16n1/s11/p70
E-Books Go to College
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/News.asp?NID=2123Ebooks in Victorian Libraries; Findings from the USA (2001) by Pam Saunders. Barrett Reid Scholarship report to the Library Board of Victoria by pioneering Project Manager, eBooks, at Victoria's Yarra Plenty Regional Library. This article appears to have disappeared from the Web (tsk!). However a summary report is included in the presentation Follow the eBook road: eBooks in Oz public libraries at:
http://conferences.alia.org.au/public2001/hutley.joseph.saunders.htmlE-books in public libraries by Monica Vidana. Reports on the implementation of the first pilot service in the UK - in Richmond. Update, May 2003.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/may03/article4may.htmlEbooks in UK libraries: Where are we now? by Penny Garrod. "If they are seeking information then an electronic copy of a reference text may be preferable to the tome located on a shelf at library X two and a half miles away. Searching for bite-sized pieces of information and general browsing are activities which are ideally suited to the online environment. This partly explains why higher education institutions are increasingly subscribing to ebooks, whilst public libraries have adopted a wait-and-see approach..." Ariadne, no. 37, 2003.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/garrod/EBook readers in Australian public libraries - are they REAL-e worth it? by Sue Hutley & Wendy Horwood, (Qld), 2002
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/34HutHor.pdfE-Book Scenarios Updated by Mick O'Leary. (library director at Frederick Community College in Myersville, Maryland USA). "Almost 3 years ago in this column I made sweeping forecasts for the future of e-books..." Online Vol.27 No.5 Sep/Oct 2003.
http://www.infotoday.com/online/sep03/OLeary.shtml
Examining one model of ebooks for an academic library setting by Jane Garner, Lynne Horwood and Shirley Sullivan, Vic., 2002.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/35GaHoSu.pdfFrom the library, any e-time by Pam Saunders, Vic 2002
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/33Saunds.pdfHandhelds in high school study, Illinois,USA. "Students... are participating in the largest educational deployment of handheld computers ... Nearly 1,700 students and 65 teachers are taking part in the program... http://www.d230.org/handheld
Point of Care to Their Palms: Medical Libraries Provide Critical Knowledge-Based Resources, Technology and Training to Medical Professionals. A report on a nine-month project (October 2001-May 2002) undertaken by the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Library & Resource Center, and the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria. Through this project healthcare professionals were enabled to use and evaluate the use of PDAs in real-life, real-work situations.
http://library.osfsaintfrancis.org/PDAGrant/shortfinal.htmPublishing e-books: OECD's pay-per-view and e-library services 1998-2003 by Toby Green, Learned Publishing Volume 17 Number 1: Jan 2004. http://dandini.ingentaselect.com/vl=4432633/cl=29/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=alpsp&reqidx=/cw/alpsp/09531513/v17n1/s5/p25
Report from the Commission on Digital Books to the French Government's Ministry of Culture and Communication. English translation of May 1999 report.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/forum/livre-numerique/synthese-an.htm
Shaping a strategy for e-books: an issue paper by Hazel Woodward and Louise Edwards, September 2001(JISC/DNER E-Book Working Group)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=wg_ebooks_strategy1Sooner or later! - have e-books turned the page? by Wendy Abbott and Kate Kelly (Qld), Vic. 2004.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/46AbbKel.PDFThe library as digitorium: new modes of information creation, distribution and access by Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Michele Sabto and Andrew Treloar, Vic.2004
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/21HrSaTr.pdfThe Role of Visual Rhetoric in the Design and Production of Electronic Books: The Visual Book by Monica Landoni and Forbes Gibb. The Electronic Library, 18:3, 2000.
The Wireless Future of Library Computing Column by Karl Bridges in Lis News July 10 2002. http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20020710201057
Thoughts on the Future of Library Computing: Implications of the Use of Handheld Computers for Library Service by Karl Bridges, Library Philosophy and Practice Vol. 5, No.1 (Fall 2002) "The academic world is at the beginning of a major shift in the library computing paradigm..."
http://www.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/bridges.htmlUtilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings (Oct.2002) by Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, in Ariadne Issue 33
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/netlibrary
Why E-Books and E-Publishing Have Failed, for Now by Michael Smolens. The author says that: "the development of the appropriate digital reading technologies and interface, as well as a properly formatted digital repository of millions of books, will take five to ten years to develop". The Book & the Computer 12 November 2003.
http://www.honco.net/ge/usWorking With Documents on Handhelds Column by Tyler Regas in Law Library Resource Xchange, June 28, 2002
http://www.llrx.com/columns/mobiletech2.htmWorking with Wireless, by Teri Embrey. The article looks briefly at how the devices are used in business, medicine etc. and how they can be used to support the curriculum. Appears in the June 2002 issue of Teacher Librarian. See:
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/tlmag/v_29/v_29_5.html
Emerald Access:
The potential role of e-books in remote document supply by Maurice B Line. Presents an overview and evaluation of the technical options available for e-books and their potential for document supply. Interlending & Document Supply Volume 31 Number 3 2003.
Electronic Books: Viewpoints from Users and Potential Users Library Hi Tech 21, no. 3 2003
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So far applications in the medical area have led this field, so it is no surprise that many of these sites have a medical emphasis. Nevertheless many excellent general PDA resource links are available from them
Charles J. Keffer Library PDA Edition Sample website as simplified PDA version suitable for small handhelds.
http://www.lib.stthomas.edu/keffer/services/palm/palm.htm .Duke University Medical Center Library PDA page That's medical center library, not McLibrary, by the way.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/respub/guides/pda/index.htmlLincoln Trail Libraries System PDA Connect How one library is offering useful & practical PDA services.
http://www.ltls.org/pda.htmlPDAs and Handhelds in Libraries and Academia
http://web.simmons.edu/~fox/PDA.htmlPDA Initiatives in Health Care Libraries
http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/lib.htmPDAs in the Midwest, USA
http://nnlm.gov/gmr/newsletter/1/pda.htmlUIC Library of the Health Sciences PDA Headquarters From the University of Illinois, at Peoria.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/temp/pda.shtmlUniversity of North Carolina Health Sciences Library PDA resource page
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/guides/focusonpda.cfmVCU Libraries (Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA,USA). Another useful university library PDA Resource Page. A highlight is that it includes great links for those wishing to use handheld devices in a medical context.
http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/pda.html
