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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">School Library Journal invites you to participate in our 2012 ebook survey. We want to hear from all U.S. public, academic and school libraries,
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">even if your library currently has no ebook collection</span></em>. Every person who completes the survey will be entered into a drawing to
<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">win an Apple iPad<sup>™</sup>!</span></i></strong>
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This research will allow libraries to cite persuasive data when engaged in conversations with library stakeholders, publishers and library vendors. Results from the LJ/SLJ ebook surveys conducted over the last two years revealed:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The availability of ebooks in public libraries increased from 72% to 82% nationally between 2010 and 2011. Ebook circulation increased 108% over the same time period. In 2011,
approximately 4% of public libraries’ materials budgets was spent on ebooks. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Almost all (95%) of academic libraries offered ebooks to users in 2011 with the average number of ebook titles available practically doubling from the previous year to 65,000.
Ebooks represented almost 9% of materials budgets in 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">School libraries saw the most movement on ebook adoption last year, up to 44% in 2011 from 33% in 2010. The number of ebooks available to students/faculty jumped 700% to almost
400 titles in 2011. The prevalence of library-owned ereading devices for student usage was 17% with over a third of remaining school libraries considering them.
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Survey results from this year’s survey will be shared in LJ and SLJ as well as at our October 17th virtual event--The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks, and Beyond.
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Please click on the link below to begin:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://mediasource.netatlantic.com:80/track?type=click&eas=1&mailingid=3914&messageid=4506&databaseid=200&serial=16781007&emailid=katie.anderson@state.or.us&userid=1_1936&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2001&&&http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/2012ebook/" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#B2160F">Ebook
survey link</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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You may forward this email to someone in your library with a better knowledge of your ebook collection. All surveys will be tabulated in the aggregate and all responses are confidential. Your information will not be added to any list for solicitation.
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The due date for responding is June 30, 2012</span></strong>.<br>
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Thank you in advance for taking the time to be part of this important survey.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Laura Girmscheid<br>
LJ/SLJ Research Manager<br>
<a href="mailto:lgirmscheid@mediasourceinc.com">lgirmscheid@mediasourceinc.com</a><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*One Apple iPad 3<sup>rd</sup> generation valued at $499 will be given away.
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