Hinze, AnnikaMcKay, DanaVanderschantz, NicholasTimpany, ClaireCunningham, Sally Jo2013-01-302013-01-3020122012Hinze, A., McKay, D., Vanderschantz, N., Timpany, C., & Cunningham, S. J. (2012). Book selection behavior in the physical library: implications for ebook collections. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries, June 10-14, (pp. 305-314). Washington DC, USA: Association for Computing Machinery97814503115401552-5996https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7127Little is known about how readers select books, whether they be print books or ebooks. In this paper we present a study of how people select physical books from academic library shelves. We use the insights gained into book selection behavior to make suggestions for the design of ebook-based digital libraries in order to better facilitate book selection behavior.application/pdfenCopyright © 2012 ACM. This is the author's version of a paper published in the proceedings of JCDL 2012.digital librariesebookshuman-computer interactioninformation seeking behaviorcomputer scienceConference Contribution10.1145/2232817.2232874