BBC Report: E-book Loan Record for Libraries in Northern Ireland
From the BBC:
Libraries NI marketing officer Julie Campbell said 446 books were downloaded in a single day for reading on tablet computers and mobile devices.
The e-book service began three years ago this month, and the number of users has been growing steadily.
During July 2011, the first month of the service, a total of 363 e-books were downloaded. So far this month, users have downloaded 9,439 titles.
Ms Campbell said the daily download figure currently averages somewhere between 200 and 300 e-books, and she is not sure why there was such a spike on Sunday.
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While e-books are growing in popularity, Ms Campbell said it did not spell the end of the traditional library.
“I think there’s still room for both – a lot of people still prefer to read on paper, and we’ve got people who are borrowing books as well as using the e-book service,” she said.
The article also includes yearly e-book borrowing totals back to 2011
- 2011/2012 – 18,279 downloads
- 2012/2013 – 48,212 downloads
- 2013/2014 – 91,895 downloads
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Note: Libraries NI uses the OverDrive platform.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.