[Web4lib] The Survey of Higher Ed Faculty: Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Library

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Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education  
Faculty: 
Level  of Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Library, (ISBN  
1-57440-133-5).  
The report presents the results of a survey  of more than 550 higher 
education faculty in   
the United  States  and Canada.  Faculty present their opinions on what  
academic libraries  
should be spending more money on; they  render judgments on journals, 
books, e-books,   
workstations and other info technologies,  library facilities and even 
additional librarians.   
The report details the level of faculty  satisfaction with library creature 
comforts,   
information literacy efforts, hours of  access, research support for 
faculty, collection adequacy and other areas.  
Data is presented in the aggregate and  for 12 criteria including academic 
field, size of college, type of  college,  
academic title and other  factors. 
Just a few findings of the report  are: 
†      28.44% of faculty said that they were highly satisfied with their  
academic library’s level of physical  comfort. 
†      Satisfaction was high on the issue of the library staff’s capacity 
to  deliver help  
when needed.  More than 47% said that they were highly  satisfied and 
38.53%  
said that they were satisfied with their  library’s capacity to deliver 
help when  needed. 
†      Only 14.33% of the faculty in the sample said that they were highly  
satisfied with  
the adequacy of their college library’s  materials collection for their own 
personal scholarly pursuits.   
†      More than 44% of US-based faculty but only 30.77% of Canadian 
faculty  were  
highly satisfied with their academic  library’s inter-library loan 
services. 
†      27.44% of faculty in the sample felt that their library should 
increase  spending on  
traditional print books.   
The 100+ page study is available from  Primary Research Group or from major 
book distributors; for further information,  view our website at 
www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at 212-736-2316.