Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara M. Samuel, University of Michigan; Natsuko Hayashi Nicholls, University of Michigan; Leena N Lalwani, University of Michigan; David S. Carter, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Paul F. Grochowski, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

-textbooks and the comments about their future use of e-textbooks.Literature ReviewStudents’ perceptions of preferred features in e-books Page 23.1109.2Foote & Rupp-Serrano conducted a study in which they found that graduate students desiredfeatures where they could save a PDF of the e-book, search within the e-books, highlighting, andtaking notes. They also noted that graduate students desired more advanced features such asvideo and data files, and improved graphics7. Brahme & Gabriel conducted a study in which theyfound that 63% of their participants lamented the inability to take notes and highlight in an e-book3.Several studies found