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Why do librarians who were early adopters of tablets implemented them in academic libraries? This paper primarily reports on a 2011 online discussion on tablets and their adoption in libraries, as observed by the researcher in blog postings and micro-blog postings. The researcher examined blogs and tweets about the diffusion of tablets in academic libraries to find out why early adopters or academic librarians adopted tablets and implemented them into library services.

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This paper discusses tablet adoption in academic libraries through Rogers' theory of the diffusions of innovations. Results will help one understand why academic librarians adopted tablets for their library services only after the iPad rather than when Microsoft first introduced a tablet in 2002.

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This page is a summary of: Tablet adoption and implementation in academic libraries: a qualitative analysis of librarians' discourse on blogging platforms, Library Hi Tech News, June 2013, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/lhtn-04-2013-0024.
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