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ISBN 13 : 9781574409628
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (96 download)
Download or read book International Research Library Benchmarks, 2017 Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Primary Research Group
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ISBN 13 : 9781574404388
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Download or read book Research Library Benchmarks, 2017 Edition written by Primary Research Group and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 223-page report presents a range of data and commentary about the operations and plans of 30 corporate, legal, government and academic research libraries. The voluminous study looks at library personnel and spending plans in a broad range of areas including but not limited to: open access and repositories, 3D Printing, RFID, eBooks and print books, databases and journals, specialized technology labs and group study rooms, and more. The study also looks at recent capital budget spending and at planned spending, honing in on specific items such as information technology, energy saving technology, special rooms and instruction centers, and building renovations and repairs. The study also looks at trends in grant support and personnel decisions in a plethora of areas such as: digitization, Information technology, special collections, technical services, budgeting, fundraising, marketing, information literacy, cataloging, data curation, reference, subject specialists, website staff and much more. Some of the survey participants are: Ashland Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Research Libraries, Fox Rothschild LLP, Haynes and Boone LLP, Monash University Malaysia, NSW Health. QNL, Saint Louis University, The American University in Cairo, The Australian National University Library, The Rockefeller University, University College Dublin, University of Michigan-Dearborn, University of Missouri, University of Western Australia, Marquette, Waters Corporation and Yale. Just a few of the report's many findings are that:Over the past three years, 26.67 percent of libraries sampled had decreased the capital budget, a 43.33 percent plurality had kept it constant, 20 percent had increased it somewhat, and 10 percent said it had increased significantly. Nearly 27% of those sampled had decreased staff over the past three years in ordering and receiving.23.22% said that they would spend less on tablet computers for patrons over the next two years while 6.67% said that they would increase such spending.
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Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 1574400940
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Academic Library Website Benchmarks written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Library Website Benchmarks is based on data from more than 80 academic libraries in the USA and Canada. The 125+ page study presents detailed data on the composition of the academic library web staff, relations with the college and library information technology departments, use of consultants and freelancers, budgets, future plans, website marketing methods, website revision plans, usage statistics, use of software, development of federated search and online forms and much more. Data is broken out by enrollment size, public and private status, Carnegie Class, as well as for libraries with or without their own web staff.
Author : Primary Research Group
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ISBN 13 : 9781574403176
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book International Research Library Benchmarks, 2015 Edition written by Primary Research Group and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study closely compares the policies of 23 research libraries predominantly from the USA, but also from Canada, Germany and the UK. The intensive 230+ page report gives detailed comparisons and data about how these libraries are handling an array of issues and developments, including but not limited to: trends in staffing and use of personnel, operating budget, capital budgets, digitization strategies, use of open access, 3D printing, grants management, technology investment, employee productivity growth, database licensing and much more. Data is broken out separately by library staff size, region of the world and for corporate/legal libraries, university libraries and for other non-profit/government libraries.
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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Research Library International Benchmarks written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 1574400843
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Corporate Library Benchmarks written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, our sixth survey of corporate libraries, presents a broad range of data, broken out by size and type of organization. Among the issues covered are: spending trends on books, magazines, journals, databases, CD-ROM, directories and other information vehicles, plans to augment or reduce the scope and size of the corporate library, hiring plans, salary spending and personnel use, librarian research priorities by type of subject matter, policies on information literacy and library education, library relations with management, budget trends, breakdown in spending by the library vs other corporate departments that procure information, librarian use of blogs and RSS feeds, level of discounts received from book jobbers, use of subscription agents and other issues of concern to corporate and other business librarians.
Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 157440069X
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special report presents results from a survey of 50 corporate and other business libraries. Data is broken out by company sales volume and by type of industry, and the report presents a similar range of data for corporate libraries that Law Library Benchmarks presents for legal libraries. More than 200 detailed tables of data highlight developments in purchasing, digital licensing, use of ebooks and site licenses, policies in knowledge management and virtual library development, as well as spending on books, journals, databases, reference works, directories, cataloging systems, and other information vehicles.
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Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Academic Library Website Benchmarks written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 1574402684
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks, 2014 written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study presents detailed data on the interlibrary loan operations of approximately 50 colleges and universities with data broken out for different types of higher education institutions and by other variables, such as for public and private institutions, and by college enrollment level. The report gives detailed data on turnaround times for various kinds of interlibrary loan borrowing and lending requests, use of technology and services, impact of distance learning and MOOCs on interlibrary loan, copyright and open access issues, the administrative jurisdiction of the interlibrary loan department, departmental cost structure, personnel benchmarks, trends in departmental budgets and other issues in interlibrary loan management.
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ISBN 13 : 9781574404173
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book International Benchmarks for Academic Library Use of Bibliometrics & Altmetrics, 2016-17: to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 114 written by Primary Research Group Staff and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Baker
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323956637
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services written by David Baker and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services: New Strategic Choices in Challenging Times provides the foundations of ongoing research in the development of collections and services. The book contributes to practical outputs of general benefit to the sector, including customers, clients or stakeholders, offering ideas for how to identify comparative strengths and weaknesses and improve or enhance present practices regardless of how well institutions currently perform. The centerpiece of the book is a description, report and analysis of a major international QB exercise that culminates in a set of good practice statements. The benefits of the QB methodology are applicable to individual institutions. Because of the current global turbulence, individuals, leaders and whole institutions are keen to learn more about what is happening and how they can develop sustainable solutions to both immediate challenges and longer-term scenarios. These include an analysis of third sector organizations, e-libraries, marketing information services, vocational training in higher education, the creative arts, and the role of partnerships in organizational openness. Discusses qualitative benchmarking and it's core tenets Helps readers understand the experiences of others and compare their own experiences to learn and adapt practices Presents tactics readers can use to identify their organization’s professional identity, value and purpose Provides an idea of what the future state of library, education and public services will look like
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Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 1574401092
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2009 Edition written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2009 Edition presents extensive data from 52 corporate and other business-oriented libraries; data is broken out by company size, type of industry and other criteria. The mean number of employees for the organizations in the sample is 16,000; the median, 1700. Some of the many issues covered in the report are: spending on electronic and print forms of books, directories, journals and other information resources; library staffing trends, number of library locations maintained and the allocation of office space to the library, disputes with publishers, allocation of library staff time, level of awareness of database contract terms of peer institutions, reference workload, and the overall level of influence of the library in corporate decision making.
Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 1574402935
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition looks closely at key benchmarks for academic libraries in areas such as spending for books and e-books, deployment and pay rates for student workers, use of tablet computers, cloud computing and other new technologies, database licensing practices, and much more. The study includes detailed data on overall budgets, capital budgets, salaries and materials spending, and much more of interest to academic librarians and their suppliers. Data in this 200+ page report is broken out by size and type of library for easy benchmarking.
Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 1574402218
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Academic Library Website Benchmarks, 2013 Edition written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks closely at how academic libraries are re-shaping their websites. The study is based on a survey of 56 academic library web staffs with data broken out by size and type of academic institution and other criteria. The 160 page study gives exhaustive data about academic library preferences in areas such as use of mashups, library social media sites, website staff and budgets, role of the college and library IT staffs, governance of the website, content entry policies, relations with the college IT and web staff, branding issues, college web conformity issues, preferences in content management systems, programming and scripting, division of web staff time among various priorities, use of blogs, listservs, email newsletters, rss feeds and other communication vehicles, use of and plans for federated search, search box presentation strategy, and use of cascading style sheets. The study also covers ease of use issues for library staff focusing on how easy it is to perform certain website-related tasks such as entry of the same content to multiple site locations, ease of inserting and positioning videos, and ease of inserting tabular materials, among other tasks. Other issues covered include but are not limited to: use of freelancers and consultants, sources of advice, use of social bookmarking tools and much more.
Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
ISBN 13 : 1574402749
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Virtual Reference Benchmarks written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 186-page study presents results of an exhaustive questionnaire about virtual reference services answered by more than 50 academic, public and special libraries covering issues such as budgets, software and services use, consortia membership, partnerships, library staff time consumed, number of reference questions answered, time taken to provide responses, and the tracking of reference answers and the development of a reference database. The study also looks at reference question & answer delivery vehicles such as web forms, instant messaging, email, phone, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and more. The report also looks at the various costs of virtual reference – telecommunications, manpower, technology and equipment and at how libraries are using and safeguarding their reference response databases.
Author : Joyce Keeling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book New Standards-Based Lessons for the Busy Elementary School Librarian written by Joyce Keeling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Busy elementary librarians need help applying the new AASL Standards Framework, especially in collaboration with social studies teachers seeking to apply the social studies standards framework. This book shows a path forward for both. This book will be a tremendous help to the busy elementary school librarian who is working with busy elementary social studies teachers. As they are designing and co-teaching library-based lessons based on the Social Studies Standards Framework, the English Literacy Common Core Standards, and the new American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards Learners Framework, these reproducible lessons will enhance planning and implementation. You'll get ready-to-use lessons as well as model lessons to adapt to the needs of your own curriculum and students. All standards are applied—with needed handouts—and other tools and current lists of recommended resources are provided. Lessons are coordinated to common elementary social studies curricula at indicated grade levels but can be adapted as template lessons as needed. Current resource lists aid librarians in collection development to support new and current standards.
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ISBN 13 : 9781574401561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Corporate Library Benchmarks written by Primary Research Group Staff and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2011 Edition gives detailed data on spending by corporate and other business libraries on spending on library staff, office staff, books, journals and other periodicals, e-books, directories, online services, and other and other services and products. The report explores the changing role of corporate librarians in market research, records management, competitive intelligence and other non-traditional areas for librarians. Data is broken out by various measures of company size, industry type and other factors. Data is also presented on library spending per employee in the parent company. The report details developments in medical/pharmaceutical, business services, energy/utility and other sectors.
