The RRU Library purchased its first e-book collection in 2000, which consisted
of a consortial purchase of 1078 netLibrary e-books. With the addition
of several hundred more netLibrary titles over the next few years, and an
additional 13,000 titles from ebrary, RRU Library had approximately 18,000
e-books in its collection by the time of Croft and Bedi’s 2003 survey