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Weekly News Digest
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December 13, 2022 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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OverDrive Provides Report on the State of EContent in Academic Libraries
OverDrive shares the results of a Choice survey, “The State of Ebooks in Academic Libraries: 2022” (registration required), which finds that “[a]s academic libraries pivot to meet the needs of a digital-first student population, many libraries are shifting their digital collections to include more popular fiction and nonfiction digital materials.”The survey shows that 85% of academic libraries have ebooks and e-audiobooks in their collections and that ebook purchasing in most subject areas has increased nearly 26%. In addition, “non-curriculum-based ebooks are a rapidly growing portion of academic library digital collections (79 percent of respondents devote up to 10 percent of their collection to pleasure reading, which is a 14 percent increase from 2020).” The survey was underwritten by OverDrive Academic. For more information, read the blog post.
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