Primary Research Group Inc. has published: The International Survey of Business & Economics University Faculty: Evaluation of the Business Library, ISBN 978-157440-480-7

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.

A PDF version of the report is currently available for $135.00; a print version at the same price will be available on November 28 2017and can be ordered now; site licenses are also available. For a table of contents and an excerpt, or to place an order, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.  Orders can also be faxed to 212-412-9097 or emailed to jmoses@primaryresearch.com.