DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3b604d/the_survey_of_high) has
announced the addition of the "The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Level of
Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Library" report to their offering.
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty 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, rendering judgments on journals, books, e-books, workstations and other info
technologies, library facilities and even additional librarians. The report also
details 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.
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 Survey of Higher Education Faculty
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty is a series of twelve reports based on a
survey of 555 full time higher education faculty in the United States and
Canada. An initial representative sample of 350 colleges was chosen from the
more than 4,500 accredited colleges in the United States and Canada. Lists of
faculty from these colleges were aggregated and randomly sampled. Studies in
this series include reports on trends in research, teaching, tenure, faculty use
of the academic library and other topics. Data is broken out by 12 criteria
including academic rank, field of study, tenure status, age of faculty member,
political opinions of the faculty member, size of college, type of college, USA
or Canada and other factors.
Key Topics Covered:
* METHODOLOGY
* THE QUESTIONNAIRE
* SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
* CHAPTER ONE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE COMFORT OF
YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY?
* CHAPTER TWO: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE HOURS OF
ACCESS OF YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY
* CHAPTER THREE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH YOUR COLLEGE
ACADEMIC LIBRARY'S CAPACITY TO GIVE YOU HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT?
* CHAPTER FOUR: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH YOUR ACADEMIC
LIBRARY'S ABILITY TO DEVELOP THE INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS OF STUDENTS?
* CHAPTER FIVE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE QUALITY
OF THE COLLECTION OF YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY FOR YOUR SCHOLARLY
PURSUITS?
* CHAPTER SIX: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE EASE OF
ACCESSING JOURNAL ARTICLES IN YOUR ACADEMIC LIBRARY?
* CHAPTER SEVEN: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH YOUR COLLEGE
ACADEMIC LIBRARY'S INTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICES?
* CHAPTER EIGHT: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE QUALITY
OF YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY CAFÉ?
* CHAPTER NINE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE QUALITY
AND DEPTH OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC
LIBRARY?
* CHAPTER TEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON
ADDITIONAL COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS AND OTHER ADVANCED HARDWARE TECHNOLOGY IN THE
LIBRARY?
* CHAPTER ELEVEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON MORE
JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS?
* CHAPTER TWELVE: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON
TRADITIONAL PRINT BOOKS?
* CHAPTER THIRTEEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON E
BOOKS?
* CHAPTER FOURTEEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON
ADDITIONAL LIBRARIANS?
* CHAPTER FIFTEEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON
BETTER FACILITIES?
* CHAPTER SIXTEEN: HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU ACTUALLY VISITED ANY LIBRARY
ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR COLLEGE WITHIN THE PAST MONTH?
* LIST OF TABLES
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