Your Digital Library: Suggest an E-book is back for another year!
Vicky Mason
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A new academic year will soon be upon us!
The Suggest an E-book campaign is back! Those returning to university will already know about the campaign, but current students may want an update and to those new students joining us this term, here is the lowdown!
Suggest an E-book was introduced during covid but was an idea which was mentioned through feedback from students. When lockdown was announced we all had to begin working differently and most of us were studying and working from home.
More and more resources became available online and publishers were allowing print versions of textbooks to be accessible as an e-book version!
Not everything was free to access so the Library and Information Resources Team gave students the opportunity to request an e-book title to support their studies. If we didn’t already have an e-book, students could request one to be bought for the library e-book collection. Who would have thought we would be continuing with this process now? Well, it’s because of the positive feedback from you, year after year, and the uptake of usage, that’s why. If you don’t believe me the stats are in!
Responses to the campaign – your update from last academic year!
Last academic year saw another successful, Suggest an E-book campaign. We saw a bigger increase in the e-book requests in the last year compared to the previous years.
Graph above created by V Mason figures taken from the Collections Team.
You requested and we delivered on core subject areas!
You requested and we delivered e-books from the following subject areas.
Graph above created by V Mason figures taken from the Collections Team.
Thank you to you all for your suggestions. You can see how this has impacted the e-collection! The largest number of e-books requested were from Faculty of Science, Engineering and Social Sciences, with the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education close behind. I wonder what will happen next academic year. It will be interesting to see.
You can see how your responses have built the e-book collection and how helpful this growth in resources has been in supporting other students.
Most popular, Suggest an E-book titles for 2023 – 2024
Your Top 5 e-book titles! You suggested and we delivered the following e-books to #YourDigitalLibrary
Graph above created by V Mason figures taken from the Collections Team.
What’s next for Suggest an e-book, are you feeling inspired?
So that was then and here we are getting ready for the next academic year! Suggest an E-book; has proved a valuable resource;the scheme has now been going for 4 years.
Enter as many of the details as you can; if you have an ISBN of the book then this would be perfect. If you would like to suggest a subject that you want to know more about to support your studies, then complete as much as you can within the request. This makes it easier for the acquisitions team to find the item closest to your request.
Now don’t forget not everything may be available online!
There will be some instances when an e-book cannot be purchased. This could be due to expense, it being out of print or just that there is no e-book available. We will consider all suggestions, bearing in mind their suitability for our collections as well as any budget constraints that may be in place. It is worth noting that prices for educational user licences for e-books are usually more expensive than the prices you’ll find listed for commercial e-books, such as those available on Amazon Kindle. We’ll accept e-book suggestions up to the value of £150 that will support your studies. You will be made aware of any issues if the request is not successful and the reason.
Happy Studying!
Now what more can I say? We look forward to receiving your suggestions and will continue to build #YourDigitalLibrary to support you with your course!
Happy studying from the Library and Learning Resources Team!
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Vicky Mason
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