Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Use of Academic Libraries Other than One’s Own, ISBN 979-8-88517-133-5

This study looks at how often academics use the libraries of other institutions, and in general how aware are scholars about arrangements allowing them to use other academic libraries. The study also presents data on faculty satisfaction with their access to the libraries of other institutions. In an era of extensive cross-institution scholarly collaboration, the report also details the satisfaction level of faculty with the ease with which faculty from other institutions can use the home libraries of their collaborators.

This study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others.

Just a few of this 60-page report’s many findings are that:

• Use of other institutions libraries was greatest among faculty in history and journalism, of which 73.68% and 76.92% of faculty respectively had used the academic library of another institution.

• Faculty from BA-level institutions were more aware than those of other types of colleges and universities of the existence of resource-sharing agreements between their own and other institution’s libraries.

• By academic title, adjuncts were the least satisfied with resource-sharing arrangements.

A pdf copy of this report is currently available for $95 direct from Primary Research Group and a print version will be available for shipment on February 9th and can be ordered now.  Site licenses are also available. For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the product page at: https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=753

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