[ALCTS-acqnet] Primary Research Group has published the Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Plans for Data Librarianship, ISBN 978-1-57440-602-3

Primary Research Group has published the Survey of Academic Library
Leadership: Plans for Data Librarianship, ISBN 978-1-57440-602-3

This report, based on data predominantly from interviews with deans and
library directors of US colleges and universities, presents expansive data and
commentary on what upper library management thinks of the library’s role in
data management and what its plans are for data librarianship.  The study
presents data on the number of librarians performing extensive data
librarianship functions, as well as a description of the types of services
that they are providing. In addition, survey participants report on trends in
spending on library data services over the past two years, and their plans for
the next two years.  Data in the report is broken out by many useful criteria
including college/university type or Carnegie class, as well as enrollment
level, tuition, public/private status and other variables. Data is broken out
for R1, R2 and doctoral institutions, and for BA/MA granting institutions.
Just a few of this 43-page study’s many findings are that:

•	Libraries from institutions enrolling more than 20,000 students
employed a mean of 7.54 librarians for whom data librarianship was a
significant part of their work responsibilities.
•	Librarians over the age of 65 were more supportive of increased
spending on data services than were their younger counterparts.
•	46.67% of doctoral level universities plan to spend more or much more
on data librarianship over the next two years.

A PDF edition of this report is currently available from Primary Research
Group; a print edition is in production and will be available for shipment on
September 19th and can be purchased now.  Site licenses are also available.
For a table of contents, excerpt, and list of the survey participants view the
product page for this report on our website at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=577

Our general website URL is:  www.PrimaryResearch.com.


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