ebrary | Case Studies

Texas Christian University
Mary Couts Burnett Library


FTE		7,500
Type		Academic Library
Location		Fort Worth, TX
Implementation date		4/21/2005
Collection		Academic Complete™
Contact		Susan Hawk Electronic Services Librarian S.Hawk@tcu.edu

What trends impacted your decision to subscribe to ebrary?	•	ebrary helps us address our students’ increasing appetites for more electronic materials.

What issues or problems has ebrary addressed at your library:	•	Space issues are always a concern. ebrary helps us add titles without sending other materials to remote storage. ebrary also helps us increase the number of materials we have available 24/7 and remotely for our distance learners.

What do you and your patrons like best about ebrary’s technology?	•	One nice feature is the ability to print a number of pages at once.

Favorite feature(s)?	•	The "Search This Document" tool should be a handy feature for our students.

What do you and your patrons like best about ebrary’s content?	•	While we don't have a history yet using ebrary, what we were impressed about ebrary was its breadth of coverage with lots of different subject areas being covered.

How does ebrary compare to other digital resources at your library?	•	ebrary is a very welcome addition to our digital collection, and our goal to aggressively expand our collection of electronic resources.