E-Book Services
According to Wikipedia Encyclopedia, e-book is “an electronic (or digital) version of book. The term is used ambiguously to refer to either an individual work in digital format, or a hardware device used to read books in digital format”.
An e-book can be accessed at any hour of any day.
In year 2005, Pustaka recently subscribed 200 e-Book title in an effort to increase digital contents for Pustaka users.
Features
- Most books are viewed in HTML and PDF format
- Provides powerful text searching of every word in the book
- Link from the Table of Contents and the Index of the book
- An embedded dictionary linked to every word in each e-book
- e-Books can be viewed by using only a PC with web browser and internet connection
- Unlimited number of readers can access these e-books at the same time
Benefit
- Offer 24x7 availability, remote access outside the physical library, there is no “library closed” time
- Accessibility from anywhere- from home, from office etc, which makes it useful for distant education learning
- Will never be lost, damaged, stolen or overdued
- The first choice for information transmission between authors, publishers and users across the world as there is no posting involved
- No freight charges
- Users get the information immediately rather than having to wait for weeks
- Enriches the digital library and enhances the library role in the e-Age
- Provides useful usage statistics for library management
- Tremendous cost saving:
- -cataloguing and physical processing tasks of printed books
- -physical circulation and follow-up with past-due books
- -theft, mutilation and replacement risks of printed books
- -shelving, re-shelving and shelf-reading tasks of printed books
- -provision of library shelf spce for printed books
