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E-books versus print: User preferences for Canadian
books at two universities
Pamela Jacobs Liaison/Collections Assessment
Librarian, Brock University
Wendy Rodgers Humanities Liaison Librarian
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Internet Librarian Conference
Monterey, CA
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3000 km apart…
St. Catharines, ON
14,472 FTE
St. John’s, NL
14,929 FTE
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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%
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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
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Examining electronic use
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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
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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
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Percentage of titles used
Both 5%
Neither 71%
Brock 9%
MUN 15%
Popular titles at both schools
Cold War Canada: The Making of a National
Insecurity State, 1945-1957, UT Press, 1996
Lessons from NAFTA: The High Cost of Free Trade, Cdn. Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2003
First Nations? Second Thoughts, MQUP, 2009
The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian
Immigration Policy, UT Press, 1998
Tales from Under the Rim: The Marketing of Tim
Hortons, Goose Lane Editions, 2003
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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 Social Theory: Selected Interpretative Readings (Canadian Scholars' Press and Women's Press) 2000
Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Industry (New Society) 1904
Due Process and Victims' Rights: The New Law and Politics of Criminal
Justice (UT Press) 1435
Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada
to 1940 (UBC Press) 1165
Women Do This Every Day: Selected Poems of Lillian Allen (Canadian Scholars' Press and Women's Press) 1126
Icy Battleground: Canada, the International Fund for Animal Welfare,
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 Italian Town: Folklore and the
Performance of Modernity (MQUP) 986
The Miners of Wabana: The Story of the Iron Ore Miners of Bell Island (Breakwater Books) 961
The Chronicle of Zuqnin (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) 920
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
Thank you!
