Primary Research Group’s Survey of Academic Libraries, 2008-09 Edition is out.
Some of the report’s findings are:
– Survey participants listed their top five academic MLS programs in North America: The leader by far was the University of Illinois at Campaign Urbana, with 77 total points; two universities tied for the second spot, each with 38 total poi nts, the University of Michigan, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
– Only 22.5% of the colleges sampled believed that librarians’ salaries had been going up faster than the rate of inflation, while more than 34% believed that their salaries in the past year had gone down in real terms.
– The libraries in the sample spent a mean of $456,238 for content accessed online in the 2008-09 academic year; the major research universities in the sample averaged more than $3.4 million in such expenditures.
– The libraries in the sample accrued a mean of about $119,000 from library endowments in the past year, though the mean accrual was zero.
– For more than 47% of the libraries in the sample, the library capital budget has remained about the same over the past three years; it has increased somewhat for 23.54% and increased significantly for 7.35%.
I’m kinda curious about how
I’m kinda curious about how the Primary Research Group selected the participants for the survey? They had responses from 75 academic libraries, and NCES says there are 3600 academic libraries in the U.S.
RE: Survey of Acdemic Libraries from Promary Research Group
The participants are self-selecting. We chose not to reply to the Survey Monkey instrument since we report our data to NCES and ACRL.