This 169-page study presents detailed data and commentary from business school and other economics and business faculty about their business libraries and business/economics collections of general university libraries. Data is based on a survey of more than 180 scholars drawn from more than 100 major research university academic departments and MBA programs in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. Research findings are broken out by various criteria, such as type of university, MBA program or Grad/Undergrad business or economics program, scholar’s country, gender, political views, academic subject specialty, academic title and other criteria.
The study presents specific findings for feelings about business librarians, library productivity, the library budget as well as highly specific collections and services such as inter-library loan, data curation services, eBooks, Databases, information literacy training, and much more.
The study also presents data on how and the extent to which faculty interact with librarians with specific data sets for contacts in person, by phone, email, text and other methods.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
· 20% of faculty aged 60 or over had contacted a business librarian by phone in the past year.
· 31% of faculty sampled think that their library interlibrary loan services were excellent, 36% good, 9% acceptable, 2% problematic, and 2% bad with 20% not responding.
· Asked about the overall quality of information technology at their business library, 26% thought it excellent, 41% good, 14% acceptable, 0.5% problematic, and 0.5% bad with 18% not responding. Higher positive (excellent/good) responses come from faculty in Canada (87%), Postdocs (77%), and those teaching Statistics/Quantitative Methods (82%).
· Female faculty were likelier than male faculty to think that hiring additional business librarians was a good idea for their institutions.
Scholars from the following MBA programs and departments of business studies and economics/finance in the following higher education institutions participated in the survey:
Alliance Manchester Business School
Arizona State University
Australian National University
Baylor University
Boston University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Cambridge Judge Business School
Carleton University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia Business School
Cornell University
Curtin University
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Duke University
Emory University
Fox School of Business, Dept of Accounting
Goizueta Business School
Griffith University
Henley Business School
Imperial College London
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, IUPUI
Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins University
Kelley School of Business
Le Moyne College
Leeds University Business School
Lehigh University
London Business School
Manchester Business School
Massey University