[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. Releases Survey of Academic Library Leadership 2025, Policies on Podcasts, ISBN 979-8-88517-300-1

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*New York, NY – June 18, 2025* – Primary Research Group Inc. has published
"Survey of Academic Library Leadership 2025, Policies on Podcasts" which
provides valuable insights into the policies and practices of academic
libraries regarding podcasts.

The study is based on interviews with 51 academic library directors and
other upper management officials in college and academic libraries,
predominantly in the United States.  The report looks at collection and
metadata efforts in podcast content, use of such content in course
reserves, as well as policies about archiving of faculty podcasts, and
library production of its own podcasts.  The study  gives its readers a
detailed picture of how academic libraries are approaching the emerging
area of podcast content, detailing collection and archiving efforts, both
for podcasts produced by one's own faculty or library, and for podcasts in
cyberspace.  Data is presented in the aggregate and also broken out by size
and type of college, for public and private institutions, by tuition level
and by personal characteristics of the survey respondents.

Just a few of this 41 page report’s many findings are that:

·         12.5% of doctoral institution academic libraries have a policy or
formal effort to archive faculty podcasts in an institutional repository or
other archive.

·         Men were more likely than women to archive podcasts.

·         Efforts to provide metadata and finding aids for podcasts still
considerably lags that of other digital resources.

·         All users of  automated metadata extraction tools for podcasts
were under the age of 50 and predominantly female.



For a table of contents, sample pages, and list of participants, view the
product page for this report on our website at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=844
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