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eLibraries question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Rosedale)
Tue Jan 4 20:14:13 2005
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:30:53 -0500
From: Jeff Rosedale <rosedalej@MVILLE.EDU>
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Michael-- I saw your Project Googleberg message posted to PACS-L, that
included a list of questions. One additional question that might be
included:
What do library users need from electronic books?
I work at a small liberal arts college library. We have enthusiastically
embraced all manners of digital information and provide our community 24x7
access to enormous amounts of valuable scholarly materials. But many
readers still don't like using electronic books.
While publishers, technology entrepreneurs and information professionals
are solely fixated on expanding access, I am concerned that the end-user
experience is being ignored at their collective peril. How can we address
this as librarians?
Thanks for your posting...
--Jeff
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Jeff Rosedale
Assistant Library Director
Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase St., Purchase, NY 10577
Phone 914-323-3206 ; Fax 914-694-8139
