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Data Presentation ........................................................................................................ 13!
Chapter Structure ......................................................................................................... 14!
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Offer Ebooks ................................................................................................................. 6!
School Libraries Without Ebooks .................................................................................. 18!
Ebook Plans .................................................................................................................. 21!
Coordinated Ebook Acquisition Plans ........................................................................... 23!
How Long Libraries Have Offered Ebooks .................................................................... 25!
How Many Ebooks? ...................................................................................................... 27!
Print Collection ............................................................................................................. 29!
Interest in Ebooks ......................................................................................................... 3 !
Ebook Circulation .......................................................................................................... 32!
Changes in Circulation/Usage ...................................................................................... 34!
Ebook Access ................................................................................................................ 38!
Read Online or Downloaded ........................................................................................ 39!
Facilitating Discovery .................................................................................................... 4 !
OPAC Discoverability .................................................................................................... 42!
In Summary ................................................................................................................... 43!
In Their Own Words ...................................................................................................... 43!
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Fiction vs. Nonfiction .................................................................................................... 46!
In-Demand Ebook Genres ............................................................................................. 48!
Fiction ........................................................................................................................... 48!
Nonfiction ..................................................................................................................... 50!
Academic or Pleasure Reading ..................................................................................... 53!
Students with Disabilities ............................................................................................. 54!
Non-English Ebooks ...................................................................................................... 56!
In Summary ................................................................................................................... 57!
In Their Own Words ...................................................................................................... 57!
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Hindrances and Barriers ............................................................................................... 59!
Common Complaints .................................................................................................... 62!
In Summary ................................................................................................................... 63!
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In Their Own Words ...................................................................................................... 64!
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Ebooks and Library Materials Budgets ......................................................................... 66!
Last Year's Budget ........................................................................................................ 66!
This Year's Budget ........................................................................................................ 67!
2020 Budget ................................................................................................................. 69!
This Year's Spending ..................................................................................................... 7 !
Source(s) of Funding ..................................................................................................... 73!
Impact on Print Books .................................................................................................. 75!
P vs. E ........................................................................................................................... 76!
Purchasing Terms ......................................................................................................... 77!
Preferred Purchasing Terms ......................................................................................... 80!
Consortium Membership .............................................................................................. 82!
Buy Independently ........................................................................................................ 84!
Vendors Used and Preferred ........................................................................................ 85!
In Summary ................................................................................................................... 88!
In Their Own Words ...................................................................................................... 88!
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Ereaders Used ............................................................................................................... 93!
Transition to Electronic Textbooks ............................................................................... 96!
Digital Assets ................................................................................................................ 98!
One-to-One Device Programs ....................................................................................... 99!
Availability of Reading Devices ................................................................................... 4!
BYOD Schools ............................................................................................................. 104!
Ereader Availability .................................................................................................... 105!
Which Ereaders Do Libraries Lend? ............................................................................ 107!
How Many Ereaders? ................................................................................................. 109!
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Public or Private ......................................................................................................... 113!
Number of Students ................................................................................................... 4!
Materials Expenditure ................................................................................................ 5!
Library Location .......................................................................................................... 6!
Respondent Job Title/Ebook Recommendation Authority ......................................... 8!Role in Ebook Decisions .............................................................................................. 119!
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!!"#$%&'"(!!""#$%! Since we launched our annual survey of ebook trends in libraries in 2010, we have seen ebook usage explode among the general public and in publ ic libraries, while ebook adoption by U.S. school libraries has expanded more slowly. Currently 56% of schools nationwide offer ebooks, an decrease of ten percentage points from last year's survey - which had been a ten percentage point Hcrease from 2013. Dips in ebook adoption were recorded for all levels of schools - elementary, middle and high schools. What is going on? Several factors are impeding the rate of ebook adoption in school libraries. Sure there are the usual issues of money and lack of access to ereading devices, but as we found in this survey - both in the quantitative data and in the comments - many students aren't that into ebooks. They like print. As we remarked last year, it seems like school library staff, faculty, and administrators are more excited about ebooks than the kids are. "Ebooks aren't for everyone. Convenient, portable, and efficient, yes. Completely replace print? Not any time soon."L"##$%&'#()*#+%,-#./%
In 2015, 56% of the 916 U.S. library media centers (LMCs) responding indicated that they offer ebooks to students and faculty, a ten percentage point drop from 2014 and a return to 2013 levels. "Lack of ereading devices available" is the top cited reason for not making ebooks available, followed by "no money for ebooks," although both are down from last year. "No interest in ebooks" holds steady at number three. Of the 44% of school libraries that do not currently offer ebooks, 11% say they have no plans to ever offer them, although 9% say they .3: H 23L will add them in the next two years. This is the lowest in the history of our survey.BRRAEIAS
I +,+I +,,I +, I +,-I +,.I +,/I % of school libraries 33% 44% 4 % 56% 66% 56% ,01--%L"##$%2#--34)*#+/%*+%5#/)%,46##-/% Few schools have any kind of coordinated, school-wide plan for amassing ebook collections, and few schools have any systematic collaborat ion between teachers and libraries to incorporate ebooks into the curriculum . Despite this lack of planning and lukewarm interest on the part of students, ebook collections have continued to grow. 3 The median number of ebooks available per school has reached 235 titles (mean 1,857), with high schools 3Ebooks comprise only 2% of all books available to students (based on print and ebook data in this report,
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district level 9% % 9% 6% % % 2% 33% 6%No, there is no
coordinated strategy for ebook use and the curriculum52% 6 % 66% 52% 7 % 53% 6 % 46% 54%
Other % % 7% 2% % 2% 8% % 9%
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$7)3!Q$)3!D'63=! 2015We do not offer ebooks 5 % 33% 26% 42% 47% 4 % 39% 53% 43%
Less than 6 months % 8% 5% 6% % % 4% 7% 6%
6 to 2 months 8% % 8% 9% % 5% 8% 2% %
to 2 years 43% 32% 27% 38% 32% 39% 44% 4 % 33%3 to 4 years 32% 4 % 42% 37% 37% 4 % 29% 34% 4 %
Longer than 4 years 7% 8% 6% 9% 2% 4% 5% 6% % Mean # months 26.4 29. 33.5 29. 29.6 27.3 29.9 26.6 3 . Median # months 25.7 29.5 35.8 28.4 29.3 27.6 27.7 26. 3 .3 2014We do not offer ebooks 38% 27% 2 % 35% 29% 34% 36% 5 % 25% Less than 6 months 5% 2% % % 5% 8% % 8% %
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Longer than 4 years 4% 9% 6% 5% 28% 2% 8% 8% 6%
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6 to 2 months % 2% 4% % 7% 7% % 9% 5%
to 2 years % 4% 6% 2% 2% 6% 3% 7% 7%3 to 4 years 2% 8% 3% 4% 5% 6% 6% 3% 3%
Longer than 4 years % 2% % 2% 7% % 3% 2% 2%
Mean # years . .4 2. .3 2.2 .5 .4 .3 .3
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5 to 999 2% 8% 7% 4% 7% 6% 7% 2% 7%
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