Omaha Metro: “At Local Libraries, e-Book Collections are Growing, but Print is Still King”
From the Omaha World-Herald/Omaha.com:
“E-books have not completely taken over print,” said Pat Leach, Lincoln City Libraries director. “If you had asked me three years ago, I would have said the pendulum seems to be swinging toward e-books. But the pendulum seems to be swinging more slowly.”
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Omaha and Lincoln’s e-book collections are about 2 to 3 percent the size of their print book collections. Physical books make up about 70 percent of each library’s annual circulation, while e-books make up about 3 to 5 percent. The remainder of the circulation includes music, magazines, movies and many other items.
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Print dominates at local libraries
Omaha Public Library
583,000 print books
21,000 e-books
Checkouts last year:
2.1 million print books
140,000 e-books
Lincoln City Libraries
708,000 print books
14,000 e-books
Checkouts last year:
2.2 million print books
110,000 e-books
Council Bluffs Public Library
117,000 print books
10,000 e-books
Checkouts last year:
330,000 print books
35,000 e-books
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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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