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Book Synopsis The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2013 Edition by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2013 Edition written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study looks closely at the database licensing practices of major academic and research libraries, examining issues such as disputes with vendors, purchasing plans, spending volume, impact of open access journals, staff time related to database purchases, and many other issues of interest to acquisitions and licensing librarians and others involved in intellectual property purchasing. Among the issues covered are: spending plans for ebooks, electronic directories, electronic journals, index databases; current and projected spending broken down by subject area; use of attorneys in disputes with database vendors, and much more.
Book Synopsis Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices by :
Download or read book Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks closely at database licensing issues in the USA, Australia, continental Europe, the UK and other countries and areas. The study is based on data from 70 major libraries, predominantly academic and special The report covers spending and procurement trends, use of eBooks and electronic directories as well as major databases, the impact of mobile computing and many other issues. The study looks closely at librarian preferences for the inclusion of various kinds of cyber materials in full text databases.Also covered in great detail are library spending plans, subscription renewal plans and views of price increases for various kinds of electronic content. The report also covers the impact of digital repositories and open access publishing on database procurement, as well as providing detailed data on the prevalence of legal disputes between publishers and libraries. The 115+ page report presents a plethora of unique data on library purchasing practices for databases.
Book Synopsis Survey of Academic Library Database Licensing Practices by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Survey of Academic Library Database Licensing Practices written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international study presents data from 29 colleges and universities about their database licensing practices, including spending data on eBooks, databases, and eJournals. The report looks closely at trends in how staff time is consumed on issues such as invoice-checking, contract examination, training patrons in database use and other tasks. In addition we probe librarian feelings on additions to or subtractions from their current database portfolio and their level of interest in novel database such as those of syllabi, open access course materials, textbooks, classroom video and blogs. The report looks at the use of free information resources such as Google Scholar, and tracks librarian assessment of the rate of price increases for online information. The study also probes opinions about the use of file sharing sites that make copyright publications available at no charge without the permission of the publishers. The study also looks at disputes with vendors providing data on the use of lawyers in contract disputes and the frequency of publisher audits and other behavior designed to Some of the survey participants are: Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library, the Australian National University, Vanderbilt University, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, University at Buffalo and UCONN Health, among others.Just a few of the report's many findings are that:· 8.52% of the time spent in database research by librarians sampled was spent on Google Scholar.· Public colleges in the sample spent a mean of $82,600 on eBook licenses in the past year.· Laptops accounted for a mean of 42% of database access for the libraries sampled, fixed workstations for 40.33%.· Research university libraries spent an average of more than 2,000 staff hours per year reviewing and paying invoices from database vendors.
Book Synopsis Survey of Law Library Database Licensing Practices by :
Download or read book Survey of Law Library Database Licensing Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 105-page report gives detailed data about the acquisition, licensing deployment and management of online databases by law libraries in the United States and Canada. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: How do law libraries value and evaluate different vendors of online databases? How much do they spend and plan to spend and on what kinds of products do they plan to expand their collections? What do they think of the training provided by database vendors and what are their feelings about the rate of price increases? How do they feel about eBooks? What are the most valuable sources of free legal information and how have these sources - such as Google Scholar and FindLaw - impacted legal information use? In addition, the report explores the nature of negotiations between vendors and libraries, highlighting areas open to negotiation and the results of such negotiations.The study also gives detailed information on the size of staff maintained to deal with online licenses, legal expenditures for contracts, use of consortia and the annual staff time, and cost of this staff time, spent in reviewing and paying invoices for online information. Data also details the propensity to sue vendors and to be sued by them.Data in the report is broken out separately by size and type of law library. Just a few of the report's many finding are that: *The law firm libraries in the sample spent a mean of more than 845 hours of annual staff time in reviewing and paying invoices for online information.*Law libraries sampled expected to increase their number of online contracts in the next year by 2.8%.*42.86% of libraries sampled provided access to the Bloomberg legal information service.*Google Scholar accounted for 5.9% of the overall legal research time for law librarians in the law firms in the sample.*Tablet computers accounted for 4.46% of access to online databases for the law libraries sampled with a median of 5% and a range of 0 to 20%.
Book Synopsis Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs by :
Download or read book Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs presents benchmarking data from more than 100 college libraries concerning their programs for serving their distance learning students. This 145 page report gives extensive data, broken out by size and type of college, for public and private colleges, and for U.S. and Non-U.S. libraries. Among the more than 500 tables of data presented is information about: use of real time chat and virtual reference services for distance learners; percentage of libraries that offer special classes for distance learners; future plans to offer information literacy courses to distance learners; policies on providing web pages, blogs or listservs that specifically serve the needs of distance learners; number of interactive online tutorials provided to distance learners; state of relations between the library and distance learning instructors; percentage of libraries with equivalent of library orientation program for distance learners; the role that libraries play in distance learning orientation; percentage of libraries that maintain agreements with other colleges to offer library services to their students; percentage of libraries with an official liaison to the distance learning program; percentage of libraries with a full time position devoted to distance learning; staff size for library distance learning staffs; policies on line item in the library budget for distance learning; evaluation of distance learners use of the library; evaluation of distance learners information literacy skills; distance learner attitudes towards the library; assessment of the reference needs of distance learners; electronic reserve policies for distance learners; spending on shipping costs to serve distance learners; library's primary means of shipping books and other materials to distance learners; library staff responsible for serving distance learners; provision of remote assistance by the library in how to use the courseware management system; level of access to library databases provided to distance learners; copyright issues; annual salary of librarians devoted to distance learning.
Book Synopsis The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition by : Primary Research Group
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.
Book Synopsis Survey of Assessment Practices in Higher Education by :
Download or read book Survey of Assessment Practices in Higher Education written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of main findings -- Departmental assessment -- Standardized testing -- Assessment office -- Student assessment of instuctors -- Evaluation of adjunct faculty -- Faculty involvement in assessment -- Tutoring -- Assessing student services -- Assessment environment -- Curriculum changes -- Use of benchmarking data -- Use of consultants and services -- Post graduation assessment -- Assessing assessment.
Book Synopsis Profiles of Best Practices in Academic Library Interlibrary Loan by : Paul Kelsey
Download or read book Profiles of Best Practices in Academic Library Interlibrary Loan written by Paul Kelsey and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study profiles the interlibrary loan efforts of nine leading American colleges: the University of Texas at Arlington, Tulane University, the University of Minnesota, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Brigham Young University, the University of Tennessee, Colorado State University, Oberlin College and Stony Brook University. The libraries interviewed shared their thoughts on a broad range of topics including but not restricted to: workflow management, productivity measures, departmental organization, budgets and spending trends, service to distance learning students, copyright and licensing issues, measures for special collections, automation and software use, use of institutional repositories and open access publications, shipping costs and procedures, and many other facets of academic interlibrary loan management. The purpose of the report is to define and diffuse best practices by profiling measures taken by nine leading institutions of higher education. Although the report contains much useful quantitative information, especially relating to budgets and employment, the focus in this report is on a journalistic narrative explaining departmental goals, procedures and practices and evaluating results.
Book Synopsis The Survey of Academic Libraries by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book The Survey of Academic Libraries written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest edition of The Survey of Academic Libraries presents data from more than 75 American and Canadian academic libraries. Data are broken out by size and type of library for easier benchmarking. Data coverage includes: trends in staffing and salaries, hiring plans, changes in the deployment of labor in the library, materials spending, including specific data on databases, traditional print books and journals; receipts from grants and endowments, trends in capital spending, spending on library learning centers, trends in spending through online booksellers, plans for digital repository development, and developments in special collections, among other areas. TABLE OF CONTENTS List Of Tables 3 SURVEY PARTICIPANTS 20 Introduction & Demographics 21 Chapter One: Summary Of Main Findings 23 Chapter Two: Staff 36 Chapter Three: Materials Spending 44 Chapter Four: Grants 50 Chapter Five: Capital Spending 64 Chapter Six: Technology Education Center 74 Chapter Seven: Books 78 Chapter Eight: Subject-Specific Investment 86 Chapter Nine: Journals 101 Chapter Ten: Information Literacy 111 Chapter Eleven: Special Collections 117 Chapter Twelve: Building Plans 127 Chapter Thirteen: Notable Library Science Schools 131 OTHER REPORTS FROM PRIMARY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Book Synopsis Survey of Academic Library Use of Instructional Technology by :
Download or read book Survey of Academic Library Use of Instructional Technology written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of academic libraries, chiefly in the United States and Canada, on their use of classroom response systems (clickers); whiteboards, tablets, and other presentation aids; internet technologies such as instant messaging, blogs, wikis, podcasting, photo sharing, online simulations/tutorials, virtual classroom/reality software, virtual reference software, and course management systems; instructional budgets; instructional computer labs; and instructional furniture.
Book Synopsis Survey of College Purchasing Managers by :
Download or read book Survey of College Purchasing Managers written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Survey of Student Retention Policies in Higher Education by :
Download or read book Survey of Student Retention Policies in Higher Education written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survey of Student Retention Policies in Higher Education presents data from a benchmarking study of the retention policies of 40 American colleges. Data is broken out for public and private colleges, by Carnegie class and enrollment level, to allow for easier benchmarking. This 100+ page study presents data on: spending on consulting services to aid in student retention, spending on conferences, reports and other information and analysis about retention; percentage of colleges that have a dean or other high level administrator for retention; retention rates for students; ways in which colleges track and present retention data; perceived impact of financial assistance on retention; perceived impact of severity in grading on retention; perceived impact of tutoring services on retention; perceived impact of psychological counseling serviceson retention; perceived impact of general economic conditions on retention; perceived impact of involvement in extra-curricular activities on retention; perceived impact of the quality of food services and residence halls on retention; use of interviews of transferees or drop outs from the college; use of interviews of graduates of the college; importance of exit interviews; percentage of colleges that maintain records on students that are engaged in few or no extracurricular activities; description of college info literacy policies; percentage of colleges that offer child care services to students; role of part time job finding services; perceived importance of career services division for retention; perceived importance of the academic advising services unit for retention; perceived importance of peer mentoring for retention; percentage of colleges that intervene at pre-determined thresholds of student difficulties such as number of classes missed or low grade point average; description of college efforts to reach out to help high risk students; College spending on tutoring services; Projected future spending on tutoring services; Perceived impact of tutoring services on retention; Source of tutors; Cost of Tutors; percentage of residence halls that have student advisory centers; percentage of colleges that have hired consultants to advise on the academic advising services; Annual Budget of the academic advising unit; number of full time equivalent positions allocated to the academic advising unit; description of rate of growth in the college's financial aid to students over the past two years; description of changes in tuition levels; perceived view of the need to increase financial aid or lower tuition in order to maintain or enhance enrollment; institutional attitudes towards the encouragement of instructor-student interaction outside of class; percentage of students that need special help in reading, writing or pronouncing English; percentage of colleges that offer ESL.
Book Synopsis Library Energy Conservation Benchmarks by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Library Energy Conservation Benchmarks written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Research Library International Benchmarks by :
Download or read book Research Library International Benchmarks written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of main findings -- List of tables -- Participants -- 1. Intro -- 2. Staff -- 3. Capital budget -- 4. Materials spending -- 5. Grants -- 6. Collection digitization -- 7. Personnel changes -- 8. Technology investment -- 9. Intra-library employee communications -- 10. Relations with consortiums -- 11. Workstations and information literacy -- 12. Relations with college or institutional subsidiaries in foreign countries -- 13. Open access and digital repositories -- 14. Books and journals.
Book Synopsis Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management by : Caroline Rinaldy
Download or read book Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management written by Caroline Rinaldy and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special report examines the management practices and business decisions of special collections libraries with a focus on rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other historical documents. The report profiles the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections at Boston College, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University-Provo, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, the San Antonio Public Library, the Watkinson Library at Trinity College, the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley. Interviews were conducted in November and December of 2007. Additional information through an online form was provided by San Jose State University Kent State University Map Library AGS Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and California State University-Chico.
Book Synopsis Library Use of E-books by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Library Use of E-books written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their e-book collections, what they think of e-book readers and software, and which e-book aggregators and publishers appeal to them most and why. Other issues covered include: library production of e-books and collection digitization, e-book collection information literacy efforts, use of e-books in course reserves and inter-library loan, e-book pricing and inflation issues, acquisition sources and strategies for e-books and other issues of concern to libraries and book publishers.
Book Synopsis Law Library Benchmarks by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Law Library Benchmarks written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Data in the report is based on a survey of 55 North American law libraries drawn from law firm, private company, university, courthouse and government agency law libraries. Data is broken out by size and type of library for ease in benchmarking. The 120+ page report covers developments in staffing, salaries, budgets, materials spending, use of blogs & wikis, use of legal directories, the library role in knowledge management, records management and content management systems. Patron and librarian training, reimbursement for library-related education and other issues are also covered in this latest edition.
