Primary Research Group Inc. has published: The International Survey of
Business & Economics University Faculty: Evaluation of the Business Library,
ISBN 978-157440-480-7
This 169-page study presents detailed data and commentary from business school
and other economics and business faculty about their business libraries and
business/economics collections of general university libraries. Data is based
on a survey of more than 180 scholars drawn from more than 100 major research
university academic departments and MBA programs in the USA, Canada, the UK,
Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. Research findings are broken out by
various criteria, such as type of university, MBA program or Grad/Undergrad
business or economics program, scholar’s country, gender, political views,
academic subject specialty, academic title and other criteria.
The study presents specific findings for feelings about business librarians,
library productivity, the library budget as well as highly specific
collections and services such as inter-library loan, data curation services,
eBooks, Databases, information literacy training, and much more.
The study also presents data on how and the extent to which faculty interact
with librarians with specific data sets for contacts in person, by phone,
email, text and other methods.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
• 20% of faculty aged 60 or over had contacted a business librarian by
phone in the past year.
• 31% of faculty sampled think that their library interlibrary loan
services were excellent, 36% good, 9% acceptable, 2% problematic, and 2% bad
with 20% not responding.
• Asked about the overall quality of information technology at their
business library, 26% thought it excellent, 41% good, 14% acceptable, 0.5%
problematic, and 0.5% bad with 18% not responding. Higher positive (excellent/
good) responses come from faculty in Canada (87%), Postdocs (77%), and those
teaching Statistics/Quantitative Methods (82%).
• Female faculty were likelier than male faculty to think that hiring
additional business librarians was a good idea for their institutions.
For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
Scholars from the following MBA programs and departments of business studies
and economics/finance in the following higher education institutions
participated in the survey:
Alliance Manchester Business School
Arizona State University
Australian National University
Baylor University
Boston University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Cambridge Judge Business School
Carleton University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia Business School
Cornell University
Curtin University
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Duke University
Emory University
Fox School of Business, Dept of Accounting
Goizueta Business School
Griffith University
Henley Business School
Imperial College London
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, IUPUI
Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins University
Kelley School of Business
Le Moyne College
Leeds University Business School
Lehigh University
London Business School
Manchester Business School
Massey University
McMaster University
Merage School of Business, U of California Irvine
Michigan State University
Monash University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Ohio University
Pace University
Penn State Erie
Pennsylvania State University
Queen's University
Ross School of Business
Rotman School of Management
Rutgers Business School
Rutgers Business School--Newark and New Brunswick
Saïd Business School
San Francisco State University
Sander School of Business, University of British Columbia
Simon Fraser University
Smith School of Business - Queen's University
Staffordshire University
Swinburne University
Syracuse University
Temple University
Tepper School of Business
Texas Christian University
The Ohio State University
The University of Arizona
The University of Tennessee College of Law and ProMBA
University of Missouri
UC Santa Barbara
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
University at Buffalo
University College Dublin
University of Alberta
University of Arizona
University of Birmingham
University of British Columbia
University of California Davis
University of California Riverside
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
University of Connecticut
University of Florida
University of Houston
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of Manchester
University of Manitoba
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Michigan Dearborn
University of Minnesota
University Of Missouri-Columbia
University of Notre Dame
University of Oxford
University of Reading
University of San Diego
University of Strathclyde
University of Tasmania
University of Tennessee
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Victoria Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
Utah Valley University
UWA Business School
UW-Madison
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wake Forest University School of Business
Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School
Willamette University
Wisconsin School of Business - UW-Madison
Yale School of Management
Yale University
Received on Thu Nov 16 2017 - 13:34:05 EST