EBooks at NC State

A Brief Overview of Where We Are and How We Got Here.

Orion Pozo, Collection Manager. 12/07

According to Endeca What are the 3 Largest NCSU Libraries by Number of Items?

Hint: D. H. Hill is the largest. So what are the other 2?

Number of Items in NCSU Libraries D. H. Hill Library - 1,110,181 matching items Satellite Shelving - 421,415 matching items Online Resources - 242,368 matching items Special Collections - 37,030 matching items Design Library - 32,428 matching items Nat. Res. Library - 22,054 matching items Vet. Medical Library - 21,439 matching item Textiles Library - 19,580 matching items

Number of Items in NCSU Libraries

Items

Online Resources

D. H. Hill Library

Design Library

Natural Resources Library

Textiles Library

Veterinary Medical Library

Satellite Shelving Facility

Special Collections (D. H. Hill)

CED Media Center

African American Reading Room

Prague Institute

Branches

Satellite

D. H. Hill

Online

EEBO

Netlibrary

GPO

NBER

IEEExplore

Springer

National AcademiesPress

ACM

Rand Corporation

Knovel

All Others

Number of NCSU Libraries EBooks by Vendor

EEBO

GPO

NetLibrary*

Others

* Includes NCLive titles searchable in NetLibrary but not cataloged in OPAC

Comparison of Search Results in Endeca and NetLibrary

Uzhgorod (or Uzhorod) is a small city in Ukraine Catalog search retrieves half as many items (8) as NetLibrary (16) Amazon Search Inside the Book – over 200 Google Book Search – 932 (36 Full View)

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16

Does Anyone Use eBooks?

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Use Index

NetLibraryPrint Books

Use Index = # of Circs or Views / # of Titles NetLibrary data (31,943 views / 44,176) Print Collection data (191,092 circs / 1,272,713) Time Period: January 1 – December 7, 2007

EBooks Chronology

1961 – Brown Corpus created 1971 – Project Gutenberg conceived 1987 – Eastgate CD-ROM hypertext ebooks 1990 – Project Gutenberg begins 1998 – 1st eBook readers marketed 1999 – netLibrary begins 2000 – Microsoft Reader software released 2004 – SONY Libré electronic paper reader 2007 – Amazon Kindle e-paper reader