As the person who invented "Ebooks Week at Rust Library" I think this one is just a little unfair. Like every ref person in LCPL (and many circ and YS staff also) I have helped many a user create their netlibrary account, as well as help them learn to use Overdrive, Tumblebook Library, Gale Reference Library, and Learning Express (which are really interactive versions of their books, and therefore closely aligned with ebooks).
The ebooks that are most popular in LCPL are either best-best seller types in Overdrive, and tech/academic/business/computing titles in Netlibrary. The early adapters to ebooks are in tech/academic/business/computing, but that may also be because we don't own the material they are seeking in print, and they're just displaying the "platform agnosticism" that the millenial generation is known for. And our "agnostics" are millenial, genX, boomer and greatest, judging from people who ask to know more about our ebook offerings.
A shout out, too, to some of our databases that are full of text books, though they are not listed as ebook sources. History Resource Center US, History Resource Center World especially included thousands of full books in their primary sources tabs. Take a look sometime! And read an ebook today :) (or, you know a print one, because we are platform agnostic).
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