Highwire Press’ recently published 2009 Librarian eBook Survey (PDF) sums up what some 138 librarians from 13 countries around the world (94 from the States) think about making e-books available in their libraries. Most but not all were from academic libraries.

Many of the questions in te survey have a close parallel to the issues we shall be discussing in the April KLA course, Managing the Integration of e-Resources into Library Collections. For example, we have sessions on providing access to e-resources (question on most common methods for your users to find e-book content); issues surrounding use (questions about platform features, and what hinders your patrons most in their use of e-book content); and bibliographic control (question about how you – the librarian – find and learn about e-books). So we are nothing if not topical and up-to-date!

The full course allows a complete day to explore e-resources and e-books, which is followed by two days discussing issues such as those above. The final two days of the week are given over to collection development policies and e-resources.