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- Virtually no one is buying e-textbooks and few have any experience with o-books
- Libraries are split between two ways of handling e-reference ongoing fees. Some have no problem paying ongoing fees for resources that are updating (and these fees usually come out of serial funds), and others will make an one time purchase for an edition and then skip a year or two before making another one time purchase
- Few libraries have done much with how to handle down loadable download-able pdfs (there were 2 exceptions)
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- Mixed response to this question.
- Responses Responses ranged from the interface being very important to only somewhat important.
- Many reported that they try to have a consistent interface for end users.
- Everyone, with the exception of one responder said that if the e-book content is needed and not available on a preferred interface, they would plan to buy the e-book anyway. One person indicated that if the interface did not meet with certain technical specifications, they would not purchase the e-book.
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- The responses for this question were varied:
- Different Different libraries needed to quickly adopt certain sets of procedures to answer a recent demand for e-reserve titles and often chose to go with a familiar non-reserve solution in order to provide access for a few rushed items.
- General need for standardization and a more comprehensive solution for the problem of multi-usage and "turnaways".
- Currently libraries use different methods to evaluate and solve this concern:
- some order a multi-usage copy to begin with
- others rely on the vendor or on their own count to assess when they should buy another copy for e-reserve.
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