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Decision‐making in libraries: E‐book product selection practices in U.S. academic libraries
Author(s) -
Zhang Mei
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401183
Subject(s) - selection (genetic algorithm) , identification (biology) , product (mathematics) , library science , business , computer science , marketing , world wide web , biology , botany , geometry , mathematics , artificial intelligence
This research studies the e‐book product selection practices in academic libraries by conducting one‐on‐one interviews of 20 selection librarians from 19 different institutions. Findings show that price and content are the two prevalent selection criteria used by my participants, and the factors affecting librarians' identification of selection criteria can be categorized as internal factors and external factors. I then examine the processes librarians use to select e‐book products and find several steps that are commonly used by my participants. Further, I discuss the strategies libraries and e‐book providers use to obtain powers over each other in the current e‐book market.