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Books remain on library shelves as students check out e-content.
Byline: Kim Thomas
Books remain on library shelves as students check out e-content
Kim Thomas
Students and staff are shunning books in favour of online materials, according to Swansea University's annual survey of library use.
The survey of 900 students and staff, conducted in March this year, found that 25% accessed library services via a computer several times a day, compared with 8% of users who visited the library several times a day.
This year, for the first time ever, the number of downloads of full-text articles from e-journals was greater than the number of books borrowed at the issue desk.
However, Christopher West, the university's director of library and information services, pointed out that while the number of books borrowed at the issue desk has fallen, part of the reason is that many library users now renew their books over the internet using the Voyager library system.
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