<div dir="ltr">Virginia Tech has subscribed to Browzine since July 2014. We added the web version to our subscription for the coming fiscal year. We have 2,400 faculty and 29,000 students. For the first 9 months we had 1,100 sessions and 2,300 full text downloads. About 80% of the sessions were on iOS devices. I hope we'll see usage grow over the next year. <br><div><br>
</div><div>Leslie O'Brien<br></div><div>Director of Collections & Technical Services<br></div><div>University Libraries<br></div><div>Virginia Tech<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Steve Oberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.oberg@wheaton.edu" target="_blank">steve.oberg@wheaton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>We renewed our subscription to the “regular” BrowZine just a few weeks ago; it was a new subscription for us last year. We decided to also subscribe to BrowZine web, an add-on product, in hopes that it will broaden the service’s appeal and accessibility
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<div>Our stats thus far sound like yours — not great. However, whenever we talk about or demo it, the response is quite positive. I’m not sure why that is not (yet) translating into higher numbers. It may be due to some or all of the following factors (these
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<li>It’s still a relatively new thing and our community can be slow to adopt new technologies and services</li><li>I’m not sure the service will ever broadly appeal to undergrads and we are a predominantly undergrad institution</li><li>Existing habits of faculty and perhaps grad students for keeping current in subject areas is probably deeply ingrained</li><li>We need to take every opportunity to promote the service, and to show our users how to use it</li></ul>
<div>In sum, I think it is a great service, a great idea, but it will take some time to really get traction among our users. We hope the web version will help.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Amy Lynn Fry<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 10:33 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>"<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Eril-l] browzine thoughts?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone out there have thoughts on BrowZine? Is anyone signing up for BrowZine web?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our use of BrowZine is not awesome. Does anyone have awesome usage or ideas about increasing usage?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We currently only have it for iOS.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amy<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Amy Fry<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor, Electronic Resources Coordinator<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bowling Green State University<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jerome Library<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bowling Green, OH 43403<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:afry@bgsu.edu" target="_blank">afry@bgsu.edu</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">email is the best way to reach me</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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