Higher Education Reports
Primary Research Group publishes more than
30 reports on aspects of higher education
management covering fields such as distance
learning, college marketing, uses of the internet
in management, admissions, adult education,
renting of college facilities, financial aid, food
service plans, cost containment efforts,
assessment practices, and library management,
among others.  Primary Research Group higher
education reports allow colleges and universities
to compare their practices, revenues and plans
to those of their peers, and to track and exploit
new ideas.

Law Firm and Law Department Management
The benchmarking studies in this category closely examine the 
cost structure and management practices of the Nation's leading 
law firms.  Coming soon: reports on law firm technology training, 
information technology strategy and other areas.  See the infomrmation
science section for studies on legal sector library and records
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Libraries--Information Science
Primary Research Group information science studies focus on the purchasing behavior and 
management practices of major information consumers. Major scientific, technical, legal, 
medical, corporate and academic libraries use our reports as benchmarking tools. Major
vendors/producers of content and content technology development tools use our studies 
to grasp market trends and pinpoint opportunities.  

Recent reports include: Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks,
Academic Library Website Benchmarks,The Survey of Library Database, 
Licensing Practices, The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 
Best Practices of Academic Library Information Technology Directors, Emerging Issues in Academic 
Library Cataloging & Technical Services, Creating the Digital Art Library, 
Trends in the Management of Library Special Collections in Film and Photography, 
and Current Practices and Future Plans of Public Library Webmaster

Libraries--Special Collections
Our studies of special collections focus on traditional special
collection areas such as rare books, film, music, photography and 
art.  Recent titles include "The International Survey of Library & Museum 
Special Collections Digitization" and "Creating the Digital Art Library.

Libraries--Corporate and Legal Library Management
Presents reports on corporate and law library management,
including titles such as Law Library Benchmarks and Corporate
Library Benchmarks.

Libraries--Serials
Presents reports dedicated to e-resources and serials such as journals,
databases, magazines and other materials issued periodically.

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. 

Library Facilities Management
Presents reports on capital projects and facilities management
for libraries. New reports include Library Energy Conservation Benchmarks
and Academic Library Building Renovation Benchmarks.

The Survey of American College Students
The Survey of American College Students is a representative probability sample of 
more than 400 American college students.  The series of reports from the Survey of 
American College Students includes traditional market research reports for industry
as well as college student satisfaction and use studies designed to give librarians and 
college administrators information on how students are using college resources nation-wide. 
Data is presented for all college students and broken out by sixteen criteria including
college size, college type, mean college SAT acceptance score, gender, grade levels, 
academic grades, region of the country, type of locale of origin, academic major or focus, and 
other variables.

The Survey of American College Students, Higher Education Services Reports, focuses on how college
students use and how satisfied they are with campus services such as tutoring services, college
police and security, athletic facilities, financial aid and many other college services. 

The Survey of Economists
The Survey of Economists is a series of reports based on surveys of 
leading economists from major institutions. Just a few of the institutional
affiliations of the economists surveyed (who give their personal opinions
that are not necessarily espoused by the institutions with which they are
affiliated) are: The World Bank, The European Investment Bank, Ecole Polytechnique,
the International Monetary Fund, Oxford University, Harvard University, the Paris School of Economics, 
the University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, the 
Rand Corporation, the University of Zurich, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Bocconi 
University, the University of Barcelona, Kyoto University, Rutgers University, Sapienza
the University of Rome, The Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, the Bank of 
Finland, the University of Bologna, the University of Cambridge, the University of 
Illinois Champaign-Urbana, the University of California Berkeley, Cornell University, 
Simon Fraser University, Tufts University and many others.

Survey of Acadmic Librarians
The Survey of Academic Librarians is a series of reports based on a representative 
survey of 555 full time academic librarians in the United States and Canada.
Data is presented in the aggregate and broken out by various characteristics
such as gender, age, library work title or field, institutional enrollment, 
Carnegie class, level of education, USA or Canada and other factors. 

Surveys of Academic Departments in Higher Education
This series of reports examines the direction and management of academic 
departments.  The reports focus on trends in research priorities, staffing, salaries, 
tenure decision-making, enrollment, course offerings, budgets, technology & information
use,relations with research institutes, students and college management and other issues
of importance to the governance and development of academic departments.