eBooks
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State Solutions to Equitable Access to E-books
Jackie McCloud, Research and Instructional Services Librarian, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Years of licensing e-books and audiobooks at three to five times the cost of consumer pricing, coupled with shrinking budgets, culminated in an inflection point for public libraries. The digital collections public libraries were carefully building were not sustainable, nor were they able to keep up with… Continue reading
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PDF, the Preferred Digital Format for Ebooks
As we purchase digital textbooks and content, one opportunity for improvement that we hear about is the format of the content. Users tend to want the content in true PDF form so that it is easier to find assigned readings and to match cited pages within a source. It is common for professors to assign… Continue reading
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Free & Low-Cost Course Materials
At our law library we maintain one print copy of each required textbook for a semester. To meet this service our access services department reviews a list of required textbooks for the coming semester. We check these against what we currently have in our collection and then create a list of textbooks that we need… Continue reading
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Digital Casebooks
For law school libraries that provide required textbooks as part of their course reserve services, it is a good time to review various features of digital casebooks. While some vendors sell bundled packages of casebooks, this post is about casebooks purchased as individual ebooks for library patron use. Libraries can purchase Aspen casebooks individually in… Continue reading
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