The data displays the categories of e-books most in demand at academic libraries in the U.S. in 2016, by school type. In 2016, 33% of community colleges in the United States said scholarly monographs were their most demanded category of e-books.
Scholarly monographs | 46 | 59 | 33 |
Reference | 19 | 19 | 30 |
Textbooks | 25 | 11 | 8 |
General adult nonfiction | 5 | 6 | 21 |
Classic literarture | 3 | 2 | 3 |
General adult fiction | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Other | 2 | 2 | 0 |