We report findings from an assessment of e-book user experience (search and information seeking) from usage data and user tests. The usage data showed that most reading sessions were brief and focused on certain pages, suggesting that users mainly use e-books to find specific information. The user tests found that participants tended to use…

An e-book usage survey was sent through departmental mailing lists to the graduate students, scientists and faculty members of the Chemistry Department and Biology Department of Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB). Several faculty members, scientists and graduates students from the Chemistry Department and Biology Department were also contacted…

This report is based on an Indiana statewide survey of school library media center collections, budgets, and services which was sponsored by the Association for Indiana Media Educators (AIME). Completed and usable surveys were received from 823 public and private school library media programs representing 44% of the total possible school library…

This paper summarizes the results of a study of cultural life on the southern Indiana frontier. Data were collected from a variety of sources, but especially important were county probate records. An examination of over 2,000 inventories located in sixteen southern Indiana counties produced descriptions of more than 500 private libraries. (44…

The material included in this print version of the "Motivation and the Right to Read" conference has, for the most part, not been edited. Due to the problems of translating audiovisual presentations into print, these are not included here. The discussion periods are also omitted. Following the "Welcome" the presentations at…