Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Research
University Leadership: Evaluation of the Academic Library, ISBN 978-157440-
453-1
The 125-page study presents the findings from a survey of 314 deans,
department chairmen, provosts, registrars, trustees, chancellors, vice
presidents, administrative department directors and other upper level
administration and management from more than 50 research universities in the
USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia. Data is broken out by title and
also by department or work role, such as for fundraising and marketing,
technology transfer, student services, educational administration and other
categories. Data is also broken out by country, for public and private
universities and by other variables such as level of compensation and gender,
among others.
We asked these higher education leaders what they thought of the overall
performance of their library, of the performance of the library in meeting the
needs of their particular departments, and of library performance in a range
of areas: cost control, information literacy, collection breadth, supplier of
bibliometrics, and other areas. Those sampled also give their opinion on
which items the library should be spending more, or less, or about the same,
with specific data on books, eBooks, journals, workstations and other content,
practices and items.
Just a few of the study’s many findings are that:
• Younger administrators were more pro-library than older
administrators; nearly 69% of those aged 31-39 awarded an “A” grade to their
library while only 47.25% of administrators 60 or older did the same.
• The best paid administrators, those earning more than US $250,000 per
year, were also less enthusiastic than others at lower pay grades about
increasing the library budget: only 20.83% of them wanted to increase library
spending.
• Support for increased spending on library workstations was strongest
from those in
positions in university business and finance, where 41.18% wanted to spend
more and 5.88%, much more, and in student services, where 47.06% wanted to
spend more, and 2.94% much more.
• Administrators in North America were particularly disillusioned about
their library’s performance in information literacy and positive performance
assessment fell off considerably from the highest to the lowest ranked
universities.
For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
Received on Fri May 26 2017 - 09:55:24 EDT