Post on 17-May-2015
E-BOOKS @ UWIC
Helen Blockwell & Julie Neenan
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Our e-book collection
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Annual subscription:Purchased outright:
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Cardiff University
Trinity College Carmarthen
University of Glamorgan
University of Wales, Bangor
University of Wales Institute Cardiff
University of Wales Online Library
Cardiff School of Sport and ebooks
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The “Typical” Sport Student
Approx 1600 of them
Majority undergraduates aged 18-22
IT literate
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The School’s Move Towards “E”
Electronic submission on dissertations
Increase in electronic journals
Electronic where possible please!
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Ebook Positives – Part 1
Consistently high usage…
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Ebook Positives – Part 2!
Different platforms not a problem
Spreading the word
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No copies left?
ebooks are available 24-7
Visit the Learning Portal
http://student.uwic.ac.uk/learning
Find ebooks on the library catalogue
ebooks* 796 – 796.013
Cashmore “Making Sense of Sports”
Coakley “Inside Sports”
Coalter “Sport: a wider social role”
Gratton “Sport in the City”
Horne “Understanding Sport”
Houlihan “The Politics of Sports Development”
Jarvie “Sport and Leisure in Social Thought”
Jarvie “Sport, Culture and Society”
Mcnamee “Ethics and Sport”
Mcnamee “Sports, Virtues, Vices”
Morgan “Why sports Morally Matter”
Tannsjo “Values in Sport”
+ many more
*available through the library catalogue
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The Future
Less Space +
Less Money +
Remote Learning =
More ebooks please!
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Our Challenges… (1)
Selection: Supplier overload, procedures, pricing,
new editions?
Acquisitions: MARC records, TALIS (grrr), e-ISBNs,
catalogue everything?
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Our Challenges… (2)
Access: Interface overload, DRM, Resource
discovery, mobile applications?
Review: Usage stats, collection dev. policy
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Opportunities Outweigh the challenges Student satisfaction key The ‘dalek’ factor