This study presents the results of a survey of academic librarians about how they view their library budgets, how influential they believe themselves to be in its determination, and in which areas they support increased spending.

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.  The ground rules on questions relating to spending increases stipulated that any increase in one area of the library budget implied a corresponding decrease in another area of the library budget.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: 

• About 10% of librarians wanted to increase spending on special collections.
• 41-47% of librarians with multiple master’s degrees of doctorates were in favor of increased spending on databases, while 73.68% of librarians with a BA or MA were opposed.
• 27.71% of librarians supported more spending on staff training, 72.29% were opposed.

The 100-page report has approximately 215 tables of data as well as explanatory commentary.   For further information view our website atwww.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at 212-736-2316.