ABSTRACT. This article is the result of a 2009 survey of student usage
of e-books at Royal Roads University (RRU) Library. The authors
found that the proportion of students using RRU Library e-books has
gone up since a similar 2003 survey, although only just above half
of students are using RRU Library e-books. An almost identical
number of student respondents (approximately 54%) said “no” to
preferring a print version of the book over the e-book version of the
book in both the 2003 and 2009 surveys. The majority of students
rated the ability to download an e-book to a hand-held device as
not important. There has been a notable increase in the use of ebooks
for course readings from 2003 to 2009. A lack of awareness
of RRU Library e-books remains the top reason cited by students for
not using them.