Electronic books are now having a major impact on library collections. Thisbook provides models for acquisitions policies and reports on several surveysof facul... » 

Electronic books are now having a major impact on library collections. Thisbook provides models for acquisitions policies and reports on several surveysof faculty and librarian attitudes toward ebooks. It discusses issues inacquiring cataloguing and collection development regarding this important newlibrary resource.Its subject matter deals with the different types of ebooks statisticaldata available for ebook usage the development of ebook collectionslearning environments integrating ebooks into local catalogues acquisitionsand usage monitoring of ebooks.This book will be of interest to librarians across all educational sectorslibrary science scholars and ebook publishers.This book was published as a special issue of The Acquisitions Librarian. «