What about the books? Valuing students’ past library experiences

What do faculty and students really think about e-books?

This article reports on a large-scale survey of nearly two thousand faculty and students at one institution, University College London, and profiles their use and perceptions of ebooks. The context for the study is an action research project, CIBER’s SuperBook, that will further investigate the issues raised in this initial benchmarking survey using deep log analysis and qualitative methods. Th...

Valuing the past...investing in the future.

What do Italian medical students read? A call for a library of good books on physicians for physicians.

Humanities are increasingly taught in medical schools based on the premise that sensitive and educated human beings may become better physicians. There have been few reports of what is offered in Italian medical schools and we have not been able to identify any published survey of student opinions.

Change: What the Books Say

A year ago a group of twelve senior managers taking part in the Manufacturing Leaders Programme had to identify a subject they wished to investigate as part of their team project, the decision was easy. For a year of teaching input we had encountered a variety of issues but the common theme to all was change. All of us had personal experience of change and were becoming increasingly frustrated ...

Two Books about Airplanes