[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Requesting the Library to Purchase New Materials, ISBN 979-8-88517-130-4

[Jose Mavarez]

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of US Higher Education
Faculty 2023, Requesting the Library to Purchase New Materials, ISBN
979-8-88517-130-4

This 73-page report gives extensive and detailed data on who, how often,
and for what kinds of materials, do faculty request that their academic
libraries make purchases of new resources.  The study also gives detailed
data on just how often such requests are fulfilled and for whom, enabling
readers of the study to compare effective fulfillment rates – for example –
for male vs female faculty, or full professors vs. instructors or associate
professors – or Caucasian vs. Asian origin faculty – or faculty in visual
arts vs. those in economics or history.

The study gives unique data sets for requests for each of the following
types of materials; databases, journals and other periodicals, print books,
eBooks, and audio-visual resources.  For each type of resource, the study
shows which faculty most often make requests, and 13 tables of data
highlight demand for each type of resources.

Just a few of this unique report’s many findings are that:

• Faculty in history were the most likely to consider their library
extremely responsive to their requests.
• The likelihood of requesting the library to purchase a print book was
strongly positively correlated with the personal age of the respondent.
• Nearly 27% of tenured faculty had ever requested their library to order
an eBook for them.
• Respondents at private colleges made more than twice the number of new
materials requests per capita to their academic libraries than faculty from
public colleges.

This study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty
randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data
is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal
income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as
institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie
class, enrollment size, public or private status and others.

For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the
product page at: https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=749
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