Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Assessment of Special Collections, ISBN 978-157440-630-6

The report examines how library directors feel about their special collections. It impacts data on how much libraries are spending, and the growth rate of spending, on special collections and how successful that they have been in raising funds for library special collections.  It also looks at library director satisfaction levels with the management of special collections, and with digitization efforts, with separate data sets for both general performance and digitization.  In addition, the report looks at plans for special collections and with perceived problems in special collections development.

Just a few of this 36-page report’s many findings are that:

• Mean spending on special collections by the libraries in the sample was $160,315 with a range of 0 to $3,200,000. 
• About 21% of those sampled said that their special collections digitization efforts had disappointing results.
• Research Universities and institutions with more than 5000 students were the most satisfied with the management of their special collections.

Data in the report is broken out by size and type of institution, by tuition level, for public and private institutions and by other useful variables.  A PDF edition of this report is currently available for $92.00 directly from Primary Research Group; a print edition will be available for shipment on  March 22, 2020 and can be ordered now.  Site licenses are also available.

For a table of contents, list of participating institutions, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the product page for this report at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=604

Orders can also be emailed to: orders@primaryresearch.com or faxed to 212-412-9097. Reach us by phone at 212-736-2316 or order on our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.