IFLA paper on ebooks in Hong Kong

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By Paul Biba

Here’s another IFLA paper – It takes more than changing the letter from P to E: A Hong Kong Library’s perspective in adopting E-books. The abstract:

During 2006 to 2008, libraries of the eight government funded tertiary institutions in Hong Kong capitalized on a special grant (Electronic Resources Academic Library Link, ERALL) from their parent intuitions and the Hong Kong Government to jointly acquire over 15,000 titles of electronic English monographs. This paper discusses how Lingnan University Library as a member of ERALL addressed issues such as what ebooks to acquire, how to deliver them effectively to users, ownership and on-going maintenance of these networked resources etc., and how we took the opportunity of ERALL to integrate overlap analysis, access checking and monitoring, and computer generated OPAC records for electronic books into our collection development and resources management workflows.

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