Ebooks & academic libraries: a study

[Nate the great]

There is an academic paper in the December issue of the IFLA* Journal that looks interesting. It's a study of how academic librarians in Italy are integrating ebook collection into their library holdings. You can download it from here as a PDF.

from the abstract:

The paper reports the results of a research project that aimed to investigate how academic librarians are managing the integration of electronic book collections in their library holdings and focuses on the selection criteria and collection development issues. The background is represented by the Italian academic libraries that have been lately involved in electronic book collection development projects, and by the Italian digital publishing e-books offer.

*(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)