Abstract |
The library website is one of the main channels for users to access e-books. Because e-books are dispersed among various platforms, users rely on librarians to organize and present e-books. This study investigates e-book users and librarians from two university libraries. 741 questionnaires were received. 25 students who had previous experience of using e-books were assigned 5 tasks and were interviewed. 8 librarians were investigated, in order to research how librarians catalogue and provide e-books. The results show that 56% students never used e-books that served by libraries. Students who had read e-books mostly accessed e-books by OPAC and preferred the layer from library homepage as low as possible. In different channels, if users don't know the default value of access point, they might be not satisfied with the search result. If the name of buttons doesn’t denote actual function of that button, it would affect the users when they attempt to access e-books. The results confirm that librarians can help users identify, select and obtain e-books by enhancing contents and covers of e-books, describing e-book platform name on bibliographic records, or providing subject classification and popular database.
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