Subject search of Academic libraries Automation yields many relevant books about transition from print to digital

"Project objectives:\n\nThe project's major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data. The project has created a semantic model of the scholarly communication process, and an associated large-scale semantic store that relates a range of bibliographic, citation and usage data obtained from a variety of sources. After mapping the structure of the scholarly community on the basis of the established reference data set, MESUR will conduct an investigation into the definition and validation of a range of usage-based metrics. The defined metrics will be cross-validated, resulting in the formulation of guidelines and recommendations." Van De Sompel, et al

Reports on pilot to use ebooks (Sony Readers) at Northwest Missouri State U. Students found it frustrating that they couldn't "highlight passages, cut and paste text, or participate in interactive quizzes."