Fear in the library

Yesterday I went to an interesting presentation on the effects of fear, both in the workplace and in life in general.

Libraries can be pretty scary places, especially for new students. They can be scary places to work in too! All the new developments, in technology especially, mean that there can be a fear of not being able to keep up with it all. There can be a temptation to react to this by clinging to old established ways of doing things, and insisting they are the still the best. I don't think we suffer from that here, we've integrated ejournals and ebooks into our collections and always seem to be considering different ways of using technology. Some of us are even blogging! But maybe there are areas where we could be more innovative?

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What future for ebooks?

Later this year I'm going to be attending a course on 'Developing and Managing e-book Collections', and I'd appreciate any feedback on the subject.

Do you think we should be developing our collection? Should we be buying more print books instead? Which titles would you like to have as ebooks? What do you like or not like about ebooks?

Use the comments feature to let me know what you think - I'll let you know of anything useful that I find out from the course.

If you haven't used our own ebook collection before, just go to the library catalogue and type in 'ebooks', then on the next screen add a subject keyword for a list of ebooks on that topic. Click on a title for a link to the ebook itself.