Primary Research Group has published the International Survey of Research University Faculty: Pandemic’s Impact on Use of the Academic Library, ISBN 978-157440-663-4

Primary Research Group has published the International Survey of Research
University Faculty:  Pandemic’s Impact on Use of the Academic Library, ISBN
978-157440-663-4

This report presents data and commentary about current and expected use of the
library during from 127 faculty at 53 research universities in the USA, the
UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland.  Respondents relate how often
they visited the library prior to and during the pandemic, and how the
pandemic experience will influence their use of the library post pandemic.

The study provides highly detailed data on how use of key library services
such as the eBook collection, library online databases, the print materials
collection, virtual reference services and inter-library loan – have changed
during the pandemic.  In addition, the report presents data on how faculty
judge library performance in COVID-related areas such as maintaining social
distancing, disinfecting library materials, supporting online education,
providing information on campus COVID developments, and other issues.

Just a few of this 128-page report’s many findings are that:

Faculty at private institutions were more likely than those at public
institutions to plan to visit the library about as often post pandemic and
pre-pandemic.

More than 71% of Assistant Professors used their library eBook collection more
or much more during the pandemic than prior to it.

Humanities faculty demonstrated the largest increase in database usage
behavior during the pandemic.

67% of faculty have not changed their use of inter-library loan services
during the pandemic.
Approximately 43% of faculty felt very safe in the library during the
pandemic.

Data in the report is broken out by many variables related to the individual
survey participants and their institutions including but not limited to:  for
individuals, age, general academic field and gender of respondent; for
institutions, world university ranking, host country, tuition level, public/
private status, and work title. In addition, the data is broken out for
institutions that are completely or predominantly online and those for which
in-person classes play a greater role.

For a table of contents, list of the institutional affiliation of
participating faculty, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the product
page for this report at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=637

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