Obstacles for expansion of the use of e-books in society brazilian

Abstract

The work addresses the challenges to expanding the use of e-books in Brazilian society, especially in university libraries. Through an investigation based on selection processes, acquisition, management and training of digital nature support collections seeks to offer a diagnosis objective about the obstacles faced to expand the use of e-books. It is intended to provide ways to democratize access, as well as the inventory of simplified procedures on the management of collections. One hopes that from the study, exposing procedures to facilitate the reduction of financial and human resources involving the use of e-books in libraries. From the reduction of costs and processes aimed to the improvement of products and services for the academic community. In this sense, this work is an important research for professionals in the Library and Information Science. The methodological approach applied was a literature review on the subject in the fields of Information Sciences, more specifically, of librarianship. This research model enables to expand the proportion of existing knowledge through the use of new aspects of a subject. The results enabled the mapping of obstacles encountered in the management of e-books in information units. Finally, the analysis of the problems should contribute to that libraries develop ways to improve the aspects that appear in the configuration of a new digital information model, thus contributing to the fulfillment of the mission of libraries to promote access and encourage the use and generating information on any type of support.