E-books versus print: User preferences for Canadian books at two universities
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There’s a print copy on the shelf, and an online link in the catalogue. Which do our users choose? Two medium-sized Canadian universities tested this with the Canadian Electronic Library, a collection of 8,000 backlisted Canadian ebooks held by most Canadian research libraries, and acquired through a national site licensing consortium. Using online access statistics and print circulation data, they compared use of the collection in both formats and examined trends. Hear their interesting results!
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- 1. 10/3/2011 1 E-books versus print: User preferences for Canadian books at two universities Pamela Jacobs Liaison/Collections Assessment Librarian, Brock University pamela.jacobs@brocku.ca Wendy Rodgers Humanities Liaison Librarian Memorial University of Newfoundland wrodgers@mun.ca Internet Librarian Conference Monterey, CA October 18, 2011 cc dano (flickr) 3000 km apart… St. Catharines, ON 14,472 FTE St. John’s,NL 14,929 FTE
- 2. 10/3/2011 2 What’s the big deal? Canadian Publishers’ Collection (CPC) from Gibson Library Connections Part of CRKN Consortial Agreement > 8000 backlist titles from 47 publishers Licensing = perpetual access, multi-user Titles accessible via catalogue links to Ebrary Focus on social sciences & humanities Sociology 5% Religion 5% Business & Economics 11% History 18% Literature 17% Political Science 5% Other 39%
- 3. 10/3/2011 3 Focus on university presses McGill-Queen’s UP 16% University of Toronto Press 16% Dundurn Publishing Group 8%Les Presses de l’Université du Québec 7% UBC Press 7% WLU Press 6% Other 40% What we measured E-books ◦ “Request” = Single instance of use of a title, from COUNTER Book Report 2 ◦ “Title used” =Yes or no Print books ◦ “Circulation” = Checkouts and renewals, including reserves ◦ “Title used” =Yes or no
- 4. 10/3/2011 4 Examining electronic use cc Christine (flickr) Overall electronic usage 2009 Brock MUN Requests (COUNTER) 74176 116692 Titles Used 1100 1611 Titles with No Usage 7031 6520 Total CPC titles 8131 8131
- 5. 10/3/2011 5 A closer look: Demographics St. Catharines, ON FTE - 14,472 ◦ 13,541 undergraduate ◦ 931 graduate SSHRC $1.7 M Limited distance education St. John’s,NL FTE - 14,929 ◦ 13,046 undergraduate ◦ 1,883 graduate SSHRC $3.3 M Well-established distance education A closer look: Geography 53,000 square miles of southern Ontario 156,000 square miles of Newfoundland (island) & Labrador
- 6. 10/3/2011 6 Percentage of titles used Both 5% Neither 71% Brock 9% MUN 15% Popular titles at both schools ColdWar Canada:The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957, UT Press, 1996 Lessons from NAFTA:The High Cost of FreeTrade, Cdn. Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2003 First Nations? SecondThoughts, MQUP, 2009 The Making of the Mosaic:A History of Canadian Immigration Policy, UT Press, 1998 Tales from Under the Rim:The Marketing ofTim Hortons,Goose Lane Editions, 2003
- 7. 10/3/2011 7 Top 10 requested titles: Brock Title Requests Short History of Quebec (MQUP) 11363 Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy (MQUP) 4220 From the Ashes of My Dreams (Flanker Press) 2403 Weird Sex & Snowshoes:And Other Canadian Film Phenomena (Raincoast) 2134 Early Modern SocialTheory: Selected Interpretative Readings (Canadian Scholars' Press andWomen's Press) 2000 Cruise Ship Blues:The Underside of the Cruise Industry (New Society) 1904 Due Process andVictims' Rights:The New Law and Politics of Criminal Justice (UT Press) 1435 Game in the Garden:A Human History ofWildlife inWestern Canada to 1940 (UBC Press) 1165 Women DoThis Every Day: Selected Poems of Lillian Allen (Canadian Scholars' Press andWomen's Press) 1126 Icy Battleground: Canada, the International Fund for AnimalWelfare, and the Sea (Breakwater Books) 1081 Top 10 requested titles: MUN Title Requests A Place to Belong: Community Order and Everyday Space in Calvert, Newfoundland (MQUP) 14878 Community Mental Health in Canada: Policy,Theory, and Practice (UBC Press) 2047 Aquatic Invertebrates of Alberta (U. Alberta Press) 1837 Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland (UT Press) 1742 Governing Education (UT Press) 1587 A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk (MQUP) 1368 Dictionary of Newfoundland English: Second Edition with Supplement (UT Press) 1031 Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an ItalianTown: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity (MQUP) 986 The Miners ofWabana:The Story of the Iron Ore Miners of Bell Island (Breakwater Books) 961 The Chronicle of Zuqnin (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) 920
- 8. 10/3/2011 8 Percentage of titles used by province of publisher 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% NL NS NB QC ON MB AB BC MUN BROCK Comparing print and e-use
- 9. 10/3/2011 9 What we examined Titles held in both formats from: ◦ University of Toronto Press (UTP) ◦ McGill-Queen’s University Press (MQUP) ◦ Published in 1990-1991 and 2005-2007 Titles used during 2009-2010 What was used in 2009-2010 Usage of CPC titles by selected publishers available in both formats Print Electronic n Titles used % of n Titles used % of n Brock 301 138 46 81 27 MUN 289 113 38 117 40
- 10. 10/3/2011 10 Does rate of use differ by year of publication? Usage by publication year Print Electronic n Titles used % of n Titles used % of n Brock 1990-91 143 44 30.8 35 24.5 2005-07 158 94 59.5 46 29.1 MUN 1990-91 149 44 29.5 44 29.5 2005-07 140 69 49.3 73 52.1 Does rate of use differ by publisher? Usage by publisher Print Electronic n Titles used % of n Titles used % of n Brock UTP 115 59 51.3 41 35.7 MQUP 186 79 42.5 40 21.5 MUN UTP 111 56 50.5 54 48.6 MQUP 178 57 32.0 63 35.4
- 11. 10/3/2011 11 What did we learn? Titles are used in both formats at both schools MUN showed overall more electronic usage despite having similar FTE to Brock Brock users showed a preference for print MUN users showed equal preference for print and electronic MUN – preference for NL publishers Implications of the study Local context matters Generalizing usage results between institutions is problematic Questioning “big deal” collections vs. local selection
- 12. 10/3/2011 12 Themes for further exploration Snapshot of an emerging technology – need longitudinal studies Compare format preferences between backlist and frontlist titles More data needed for titles in social sciences and humanities pamela.jacobs@brocku.ca wrodgers@mun.ca Thank you!