An exploration of ebook selection behavior in academic library collections

Authors:
Dana McKay;Annika Hinze;Ralf Heese;Nicholas Vanderschantz;Claire Timpany;Sally Jo Cunningham
Affiliations:
Library, Swinburne Institute, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia;Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Venue:
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Academic libraries have offered ebooks for some time, however little is known about how readers interact with them while making relevance decisions. In this paper we seek to address that gap by analyzing ebook transaction logs for books in a university library.