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What is a printed textbook?: electronic books at the university teaching and learning

Published:2014-04-07 Issue:4 Volume:45 Page:
ISSN:1581-7903
Container-title:Knjižnica: revija za področje bibliotekarstva in informacijske znanosti
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Author:

Pečko Mlekuš Helena

Abstract

AbstractThe article tries to answer the question whether electronic texbooks will support the teaching and learning process at the university in the future and the way they will inflluence academic libraries' collections and services. The answer to the first part of the question is affirmative. A lot of publishers offer access to electronic textbooks, hardware and software equipment and their number is even increasing. However, there are a lot of problems to solve, lack of standardisation being one of them. University publishers have not responded to the changing environment in time and that is why commercial firms took the initiative. Libraries do not represent an adequate market for them and are mostly oriented towards individual users as well. There are a lot of ongoing studies and pilot projects in the United States of America and the United Kingdom trying to find the best solutions for the existing problems. At the end, some possible tasks and challenges for academic libraries are presented.

Publisher

University of Ljubljana

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