Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to determine whether aggregator packages might be appropriate to replace or supplement print collections in business and nursing, it aims to identify e-book equivalents for print books acquired for an academic library's collections. Design/methodology/approach -This paper provides a list of the library's acquisitions in two disciplines checked against e-book aggregators' holdings. The comparison is analyzed and discussed. Findings -The results confirm findings of a previous study showing that less than one-third of print books acquired for this library's nursing and business collections have e-book equivalents available from aggregators, so the aggregators' holdings do not strongly match the library's collecting profile.Research limitations/implications -The present study applies previous research to a different type of collection, and tests previous conclusions. Originality/value -This paper contributes to assessment of the value of e-book collections for academic libraries. Paper type Research paperAdelphi University libraries have focused on making the most appropriate electronic resources accessible to users in the Adelphi community, and in 2008 the Collection Development and Management Committee began to investigate e-book aggregators or vendors as well as publishers' specialized collections for addition to the library's collection. Adelphi is a medium-sized liberal arts university with a main campus in Garden City, New York, and three satellite campuses around the metropolitan area. The enrollment is approximately 8,500 students, of whom, over 3,400 are in graduate programs in nursing, social work, education, psychology and business. Currently, the libraries subscribe to 179 databases, which include full-text journals and indexes, as well as online reference titles.Several years ago, the library considered adding electronic monographs, but decided the time was not right, due to the usability, access, and preservation issues with this format. The author wanted to discover whether an e-book package or subject collection might now be appropriate to replace or supplement print titles in the Adelphi university libraries. To answer this question we needed to know if enough e-books are available from any vendor to meet our collection needs, and the research method was to evaluate how the major e-book vendors' collections compare to the main library's print collecting profile. References to "the library" from this point in this paper will refer to Swirbul Library, Adelphi's main library, which handles acquisitions and cataloging for all of the university's satellite libraries.Currently the library does not order or catalog individual e-book monographs so, whether they were acquired in packages or as individual orders, it would require new or adjusted policies for acquisitions, cataloging and access. The issues for e-books are similar to e-journals, but also different because e-books do not yet have the standards for access and archiving that have been developed for e-journals. ...
Normally hearing students acquire most of their reading vocabulary from printed context, but little is known about this process in hearing-impaired students. Two studies, therefore, investigated hearing-impaired students' ability to derive lexical and syntactic information about unknown words embedded in short passages of text. The passages varied in their informativeness about the meaning of the unknown words. Ability to derive at least a partial meaning for a word in context was determined both by the type of context and the reading comprehension levels of the students. However, there was no relationship between reading comprehension scores and ability to determine the form class of the words in context. The results are related to the importance of integrating semantic information into a meaning schema for the passage in order to acquire new meanings for unknown words and to the local strategies adopted by poorer readers when attempting to answer comprehension questions. Implications for explaining, and trying to ameliorate, the well-documented vocabulary limitations of hearing-impaired students are discussed.
With the ongoing shift to electronic formats for library resources, acquisitions librarians, like the rest of the profession, must adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of electronic resources by keeping up with trends and mastering new skills related to digital publishing, technology, and licensing. The author sought to know what roles librarians with primary responsibility for acquisitions have related to electronic resources and what models of staffing and workflow are used. The author developed a survey to answer questions related to the role of acquisitions librarians in electronic resources acquisitions and management. The survey addresses staffing for electronic resources management, the responsibilities of acquisitions librarians, and how their jobs have changed.
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