Faculty with Kindles in law schools - survey results

Hi all - thanks to everyone who responded to my quick survey
on faculty (and student) ownership of Kindles in law schools.
The results were helpful for preparing for the CALI Kindle
for Law Schools session I did with June Liebert:

http://w.cali.org/conference/session/64

I asked on Twitter, teknoids and the CSSIS-L lists. I got 21
responses. 6 responders indicated they own Kindles.

9 libraries reported no faculty with Kindles.

11 libraries reported a few faculty with Kindles. From some
of the numbers, I'm guessing closer to 1-2 than 3-4 faculty
with Kindles.

1 library reported 5 faculty with Kindles.

That's it. So, the results of this very informal survey show
that Kindle use hasn't really taken off in law schools yet.

Some comments from responders:

"Faculty have little or no interest in the Kindle" (but that
was countered by "a good amount of interest")

"I'm guessing very few students have Kindles"
"I haven't seen that many students using the Kindle"
"Students don't engage in recreational reading"

"Our dean got one because our parent university gave one to
all the deans to introduce the concept [of the Kindle]"

"I use [the Kindle] strictly for personal fun"

"We don't use [the Kindle] in class"

"I like holding the novel in my hands"

"[The Kindle] would be great for a lawyer on a cross-country
trip...load law review articles, cases, memos, etc."

And the responder with 5 faculty with Kindles said:

"We bought 5 Kindles and 5 Sony Readers for the library and
loaded them with a variety of books. The Kindles are pretty
popular, mostly with faculty, but increasingly with students.
The Sonys not so much...We ordered another 5 Kindles..."

P.S. I spoke to some faculty about the Kindle and their
comments include:

footnotes hard to get to

problems with graphics, formulas, equations

"inconsistent pagination"

major legal publishers need to make their books available on
the Kindle

the "mediated book" - reading books via the screen is the future

potential for advertising in Kindle ebooks

And finally, from the Twitter stream - faculty self-publishing
ecasebooks via the Kindle.

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Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Foreign and International Law
Librarian and Lecturer in Law
D'Angelo Law Library
University of Chicago Law School
1121 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: 773-702-9612
Fax: 773-702-2889
llou@midway.uchicago.edu
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/
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