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eBooks in Law Libraries: A survey of national trends
Conference Track
1. Managing e-Resources & Licensing
Keywords
eBooks, cataloging
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will learn how law libraries across the United States are currently using eBooks.
- Attendees will take home the knowledge of how to provide better discovery for at least one type of eBook already in their library's holdings.
- Attendees will better understand how multiple libraries who share an ILS and other resources for indexing, but whose patrons have different levels of access, can better make electronic resources available to patrons.
Abstract
The future is here. Law libraries are already providing eBooks to patrons on a daily basis. In fall 2014, the St. Mary's University School of Law's law library conducted a survey on U.S. law libraries' current use of eBooks, defined to include treatises in databases, online access codes and CDs that come with print books, open access materials including online government documents, as well as eBooks platforms like Overdrive and Thompson Reuters' Proview. This session will present results of the study, with a focus on what has worked to provide access to each type of eBook, in differently resourced libraries.
Presenters
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c4c05c3ca0d21b9c4cea0cf11ddf057d.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Stacy Fowler, St. Mary's University School of Law")
Stacy Fowler, St. Mary's University School of Law
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5b300deb87d3936cc54d8a88ee9857f2.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Wilhelmina Randtke, St. Mary's University School of Law")