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The E-Book Effect

Rob Cagna, Library DirectorWest Virginia University

Charleston Health Sciences Librarywww.twitter.com/rcagna

www.slideshare.net/cagna

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What we’ll examine

• Old ways of how students gathered material• New ways; new formats• What’s good• What may be problematic

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“Old” ways of getting a book

• From teacher/school• School library• Public library• Interlibrary loan• Local bookstore• Scholastic Reading Club (book orders)• Book Fairs(All still in use!)

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But now, new access points…

E-book readersDesktop computersLaptopsTabletsSmartphones

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Some benefits of e-books

• Portability• Access• Price• Adaptability (font size, speaking ability, etc.)• Multimedia content• Interactive, assessed reading with title

recommendations (ex: myON)

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Closer than we think!

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De Humani Corporis Fabrica

• "The Fabrica"• by Andreas Vesalius

• How has this author and book influenced online content, and how have others interpreted the original content?

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Vesalius’s life

• 1514-1564• Born in Brussels to a health sciences family• Studied at the University of Louvain, the

University of Paris, and the University of Padua

• Was a professor at the University of Padua; occasionally at Pisa and Bologna

• Studied Galen's teachings

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Vesalius’s life (continued)Broke with tradition; did

showcase dissection demonstrations by himself

rather than telling someone else what to do while he

lectured; started to notice Galen was wrong in many

points of his writings, perhaps because Galen primarily used non-human animals to learn

about anatomic structure

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Vesalius’s masterpiece: the Fabrica

• De Humani Corporis Fabrica• Published in 1543 by Johannes Oporinus; text

and drawings were clear and sharp• The drawings are believed to have been done

by Titian’s school (van Calcar), perhaps some by Titian himself, and are amazing even today

• Text was in Latin and instructed readers how to do their own dissections

• It revolutionized anatomy and physiology

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Free versions of “The Fabrica”

• A free scan of the book is available at Google Books via Google Play

• A free preview of an English translation is available via Google Books, too

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NLM (National Library of Med.)

Turning the Pages Onlinehttp://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/vesalius/vesalius.html

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500th Anniversary Edition

www.vesaliusfabrica.com

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University of Glasgow

Online exhibit with selected images and general information

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/sep2002.htm

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Becker Library, St. Louis University

http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/vesalius/index.html

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Basel University, Switzerland

http://www.erara.ch/bau_1/content/

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The Epitome Edition

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30027161

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Fabrica and the Epitome

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30027161

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Supported by

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30027161

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YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5LGCCjZcCo

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YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhnDcPdS4NA

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vesalius.com

www.vesalius.com

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Poetry (and Sound)

De Humani Corporis Fabrica (John Burnside)

after Vesalius

I know the names of almostnothing...

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/de-humani-corporis-fabrica

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Plays

Vesalius: A Requiem (London, 1996)

http://variouspeople.com.au/productions/vesalius-a-requiem/

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Dead for 450 years…but on Facebook

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Vesalius on Twitter

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Vesalius Conference 2015http://vesalius.wustl.edu/schedule.html

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De Humani Google Images

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Map the book: Google Maps

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French translation in progresshttp://www3.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/vesale/debut.htm

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The Vesalius Project

www.ospfe.it

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Vesalius on the TV News

http://www.brusselnieuws.be/en/video/tvbrussel

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Vesalius Anatomy Card Gamehttp://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/vesalius-card-game/

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Vesalius College

www.vesalius.edu

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The 21st century is awesome!

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What do we lose with e-books?

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What do we lose with e-books?

• Sense of size• Sense of weight, heft, gravitas• Books as architecture (William Morris) • Page turning (noise, crinkling of pages, type of

paper and its feel)• Marginalia and fingerprints (possibly)• Texture, binding, tobacco-whiskey smell• Expressive, haptic nature (possibly)

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What do we lose? (continued)

• Concrete poetry may lose its font type, font size, ink, kerning, layout, white space, page size, paper type, etc. when being reformatted as an e-book and/or when the end user manipulates the settings

• Possible loss of some content recall ability?

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Encourage students to enter the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contesthttp://www.abaa.org/ncbcc/the-national-collegiate-book-collecting-contestEnter by the end of May!

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Questions?

Rob Cagna, Library DirectorWest Virginia University

Charleston Health Sciences [email protected]

Twitter www.twitter.com/rcagnaFacebook www.facebook.com/robertcagna

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