The survey presents the opinion of 249 higher education leaders – deans, provosts, trustees, chancellors, academic and administrative department heads, distinguished professors and other leaders and administrators in research universities – about the quality of their general university and academic library information technology & related services.  The 70-page report provides specific benchmarking data on their evaluations of information databases, academic library info technology assistance, 3D printing facilities, specialized library technology and group study rooms, and laptop lending by the academic library. In addition, respondents evaluate the help they get from the general university IT department as well as help in using the university course management system and in using the general college website.

Survey participants relate which technologies they would like to see their university management and their academic libraries focus on in the near future.

Data in the reports is broken out by a broad range of criteria including: age, gender, academic title, and compensation level of respondent, and university ranking, public/private status and country of origin of the respondents affiliated institution.

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

• Deans, provosts, and chancellors were the most likely among various academic and administrative title groups to consider specialized academic library information technology rooms or “commons’ important as a spending priority.
• Respondents from Australia/New Zealand gave the highest level of support to 3D printing as an information technology spending priority among the six countries sampled.
• Younger respondents were much more likely than older ones to rate their institutions as behind the curve on the range and quality of information technology available to faculty and staff. 41.67% of respondents under age 30 believed their universities to be disadvantaged vis-à-vis peer universities.
• Male respondents were more likely than females to rate their experiences with university technology help lines positively; 55.24% rated their experience as good or excellent compared to just 43.06% of females.

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Respondents were drawn from major research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.  A list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants is below:

Australian National University

Barnard College

Baylor College of Medicine

Brown University

Carleton University

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western Reserve University

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland

Curtin University

Drexel University

Emory University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Griffith University

Imperial College London

James Cook University

Lehigh University

Massey University

McGill University

Michigan State University

Monash University

Penn State College of Medicine

Penn State University

Pennsylvania State University

Princeton University

Queen Mary University of London

Rice University

Rutgers

Saint Louis University

Swinburne University of Technology

Teachers College, Columbia University

The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

University of Idaho

University College Dublin

University of Alberta

University of Birmingham

University of California, Davis

University of California, Riverside

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California--Berkeley

University of Chicago

University of Florida

University of Idaho

University of Maryland

University of Maryland--Baltimore

University of Maryland--College Park

University of Michigan

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

University of Michigan School of Information

University of Michigan-Flint

University of Missouri

University of Nottingham

University of Pittsburgh

University of South Florida

University of Tasmania

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

University of Toronto

University of Toronto Scarborough

University of Utah

University of Western Australia

VCUArts in Qatar

Virginia Commonwealth University

Washington State University

Washington University

Washington University in St. Louis

Yale University