[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Use of Academic Libraries Other than One’s Own, ISBN 979-8-88517-133-5

[Jose Mavarez]

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of US Higher Education
Faculty 2023, Use of Academic Libraries Other than One’s Own, ISBN
979-8-88517-133-5

This study looks at how often academics use the libraries of other
institutions, and in general how aware are scholars about arrangements
allowing them to use other academic libraries. The study also presents data
on faculty satisfaction with their access to the libraries of other
institutions. In an era of extensive cross-institution scholarly
collaboration, the report also details the satisfaction level of faculty
with the ease with which faculty from other institutions can use the home
libraries of their collaborators.

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.

Just a few of this 60-page report’s many findings are that:

• Use of other institutions libraries was greatest among faculty in history
and journalism, of which 73.68% and 76.92% of faculty respectively had used
the academic library of another institution.

• Faculty from BA-level institutions were more aware than those of other
types of colleges and universities of the existence of resource-sharing
agreements between their own and other institution’s libraries.

• By academic title, adjuncts were the least satisfied with
resource-sharing arrangements.

For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the
product page at: https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=753
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