Research and Markets: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty - More Than 44% of US-Based Faculty but Only 30.77% of Canadian Faculty Were Highly Satisfied

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• Source: Research and Markets Ltd.
• On 10:06 am EST, Friday November 6, 2009

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3b604d/the_survey_of_high) has announced the addition of the "The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Level of Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Library" report to their offering.

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Faculty present their opinions on what academic libraries should be spending more money on, rendering judgments on journals, books, e-books, workstations and other info technologies, library facilities and even additional librarians. The report also details level of faculty satisfaction with library creature comforts, information literacy efforts, hours of access, research support for faculty, collection adequacy and other areas. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.

The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Faculty present their opinions on what academic libraries should be spending more money on; they render judgments on journals, books, e-books, workstations and other info technologies, library facilities and even additional librarians.

The report details the level of faculty satisfaction with library creature comforts, information literacy efforts, hours of access, research support for faculty, collection adequacy and other areas. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.

Just a few findings of the report are:

• 28.44% of faculty said that they were highly satisfied with their academic library's level of physical comfort.
• Satisfaction was high on the issue of the library staff's capacity to deliver help when needed. More than 47% said that they were highly satisfied and 38.53% said that they were satisfied with their library's capacity to deliver help when needed.
• Only 14.33% of the faculty in the sample said that they were highly satisfied with the adequacy of their college library's materials collection for their own personal scholarly pursuits.
• More than 44% of US-based faculty but only 30.77% of Canadian faculty were highly satisfied with their academic library's inter-library loan services.
• 27.44% of faculty in the sample felt that their library should increase spending on traditional print books.

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty is a series of twelve reports based on a survey of 555 full time higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. An initial representative sample of 350 colleges was chosen from the more than 4,500 accredited colleges in the United States and Canada. Lists of faculty from these colleges were aggregated and randomly sampled. Studies in this series include reports on trends in research, teaching, tenure, faculty use of the academic library and other topics. Data is broken out by 12 criteria including academic rank, field of study, tenure status, age of faculty member, political opinions of the faculty member, size of college, type of college, USA or Canada and other factors.

Key Topics Covered:

• METHODOLOGY
• THE QUESTIONNAIRE
• SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
• CHAPTER ONE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE COMFORT OF YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY?
• CHAPTER TWO: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE HOURS OF ACCESS OF YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY
• CHAPTER THREE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH YOUR COLLEGE ACADEMIC LIBRARY'S CAPACITY TO GIVE YOU HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT?
• CHAPTER FOUR: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH YOUR ACADEMIC LIBRARY'S ABILITY TO DEVELOP THE INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS OF STUDENTS?
• CHAPTER FIVE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE QUALITY OF THE COLLECTION OF YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY FOR YOUR SCHOLARLY PURSUITS?
• CHAPTER SIX: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE EASE OF ACCESSING JOURNAL ARTICLES IN YOUR ACADEMIC LIBRARY?
• CHAPTER SEVEN: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH YOUR COLLEGE ACADEMIC LIBRARY'S INTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICES?
• CHAPTER EIGHT: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE QUALITY OF YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY CAFÉ?
• CHAPTER NINE: HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE QUALITY AND DEPTH OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COLLEGE'S ACADEMIC LIBRARY?
• CHAPTER TEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON ADDITIONAL COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS AND OTHER ADVANCED HARDWARE TECHNOLOGY IN THE LIBRARY?
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON MORE JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS?
• CHAPTER TWELVE: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON TRADITIONAL PRINT BOOKS?
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON E BOOKS?
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON ADDITIONAL LIBRARIANS?
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR LIBRARY SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE ON BETTER FACILITIES?
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU ACTUALLY VISITED ANY LIBRARY ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR COLLEGE WITHIN THE PAST MONTH?
• LIST OF TABLES

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