Spring 2011 Catalog
Library Information Resources
In This Issue
Welcome to the spring 2011 issue of the LibraryWorks® catalog of market intelligence resources for libraries and the companies that serve them.
Here you will find an exciting collection of proprietary reports, surveys and benchmarking studies produced by the Primary Research Group, a leading research firm. Topics range from digital repositories and library use of ebooks to database licensing practices and corporate library benchmarks.
Use the benchmarking studies to compare your budgets, managerial
decisions, technology purchases, and strategic
visions to those of your peers, and to identify best practices.
As a library supplier, you can leverage the market studies, which are
based on substantial primary and secondary research, to identify
competitive opportunities and threats.
Also Featured
Library Bid & RFP Alert - A new weekly E-mail service that lists open bid, RFP, RFQ, RFI, and other business opportunities in the library marketplace.
The 2011 Librarian's Yellow Pages - The 17th annual edition of the definitive library buyer's guide is available in 3 convenient formats: hardcopy, PDF, and interactive digital. Whether you are searching for products or services, setting up a library, building an RFP list, or you need an indispensable disaster recovery resource, the 2011 LYP is for you.
The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2011 Edition
Primary Research Group | 2011
The 225-page report looks closely at how 60+ academic and special libraries and other select institutions in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, China, India, Australia and other countries or regions are funding, managing, cataloging, marketing and developing their institutional digital repositories.
The report provides detailed data on budget and spending, sources of revenue and support, man hours deployed, range of materials maintained, number and source of visitors and downloads, and other key facts about institutional digital repositories. The report also looks closely at the degree of faculty cooperation, methods of procuring and measuring this cooperation, plans to develop repositories as publishers in their own right, impact on the online presence of the college and on citation rates in journals, among other factors. Data is broken out by size, geographic region, Carnegie class, years in operation and type of library or other institution (such as scientific institutes).
The Survey of Library and Museum Digitization Projects, 2011 Edition
Primary Research Group | 2011
The nearly 200 page report looks closely at how academic, public and special libraries and museums are digitizing special and other collections. The study is based on detailed data on costs, equipment use, staffing, cataloging, marketing, licensing revenue and other facets of digitization projects from nearly 100 libraries and museums in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, and Australia.
The study covers and presents data separately for digitizers of photographs, film and video, music and audio, text and re-digitization of existing digital mediums. Data is also broken out by budget size, region of the world, type of institution and other factors. Data presented separately for academic libraries, public and government libraries, special libraries and museums.
Library Use of eBooks, 2011 Edition
Primary Research Group | 2011
The report presents 145 pages of data and commentary on a broad range eBook issues, including: spending on eBooks in 2010 and anticipated spending for 2011; use levels of various kinds of eBooks; market penetration by various specific eBook publishers; extent of use of aggregators vs. offering by specific publishers; purchasing of individual titles; use of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail/internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for ebooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks.
Data is broken out separately for public, academic and special libraries. The data in the report is based on a sample of academic, public and special libraries in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe.
The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices 2011 Edition
Primary Research Group | 2011
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.
Survey of Academic Librarians: Views on Library Information Literacy Efforts
Primary Research Group | June 2010
This study, based on a survey of more than 550 academic librarians, presents 100 tables of data pinpointing how much time academic librarians spend on information literacy task, what they think of the information literacy efforts of their college, and of the information literacy skills of their students and faculty.
The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2010-11 Edition
Primary Research Group | August 2010
The report presents more than 245 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of academic library issues including: spending on books, ebooks, journals, databases and other content vehicles; hiring plans and trends in salaries and benefits; subject specific and overall academic library investment plans in content and trends in the capital budget; data on the use of laptops in the library, and the usefulness of various internet tools, among other issues.
Survey of Academic Librarians: Satisfaction with Library Employment
Primary Research Group | July 2010
This report presents the results of a survey of 555 academic librarians about how they view various aspects of their treatment as employees, their career prospects and their relationship with faculty, students, and library administration The report includes detailed information on levels of satisfaction with salary, retirement, job security and health benefits, office surroundings, physical security and other aspects of the library work experience.
It also gives precise information on academic librarian experiences with sexual harassment, and views on the existence of prejudice related to race, income, ethnicity, age, gender and other factors.
Data is presented in the aggregate and broken out by various characteristics such as gender, age, library work title or field, institutional enrollment, Carnegie class, level of education, USA or Canada and other factors.
Survey of Academic Librarians: Opinion of the Usefulness of Certain Library Technologies
Primary Research Group | May 2010
This study presents 130 tables of data pinpointing academic librarian support and opposition to spending more on various library technologies.
The report helps library administrators and vendors to gauge the level of interest in certain library technologies, breaking it down by variables such as library department and college types.
Technologies covered include: laptops for patrons, computer labs, digital cameras, library management systems, e-books, student response systems or "clickers", content management systems, virtual whiteboards and other technologies.
Survey of Academic Librarians: Use of Associations, Blogs, Listservs, Conferences, & Publications about Libraries
Primary Research Group | March 2010
The study imparts highly specific data about academic librarian use of library oriented blogs, listservs, publications, association membership and attendance at library conferences. The report includes detail on the percentage of academic librarians who read print publications about libraries, or use library listservs and blogs, as well as the amount of time spent daily on these pursuits. It also includes data on library association membership and money spent on library conferences and related expenses.
The report’s results are based on a representative survey of 555 full time academic librarians in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and broken out by various characteristics such as gender, age, library work title or field, institutional enrollment, Carnegie class, level of education, USA or Canada and other factors.
The 44-page report has approximately 100 tables of data as well as explanatory commentary.
Survey of Academic Librarians: Usefulness of Leading Internet Tools and Sites
Primary Research Group | April 2010
This study presents the results of a survey of academic librarians about their use of leading internet tools and sites such as Ebay, Google, Bing, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, YouTube, SecondLife, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google Books, FLickr, Yahoo Groups, Twitter and others.
Data is broken out by gender, age, size of institution, type of institution, work role in the library and many other criteria. Let hundreds of librarians tell you how valuable they find the leading internet sites and tools.
Survey of Academic Librarians: Communicating with Library Management
Primary Research Group | April 2010
This report looks at how librarians communicate with one another in the same library and with library management. It first of all looks at use of in-house library communications tools such as internal blogs, listservs, knowledge management systems and newsletters. Next it probes in detail the inner workings of how librarians relate to their immediate boss and to library administration. Librarians describe the management style of their institution, their experiences with their library director, the nature of administrative politics at their institution.
Law Library Benchmarks, 2010-11 Edition
Primary Research Group | September 2010
This study presents data from a survey of more than 50 law libraries in the United States and Canada. The study presents overall and per lawyer employed spending on content/materials, books, print reporters, online services and other legal information vehicles. It covers the trends in use of floor space, overall budgets and staffing, including hiring plans and the breakdown in total staff between librarians and other employees.
The study also presents highly specific data on cost recovery by libraries though charge backs to patrons. Librarians sampled also describe the measures that that they have taken to reduce costs, and to better negotiate with suppliers. Other areas covered include: use of internet tools and resources, the library role in records management, market research and case research, among other areas.
Data is presented in the aggregate and also broken out by size and type of library. Data is presented separately for private company law libraries, law firm libraries, courthouse libraries and government law libraries.
Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2011 Edition
Primary Research Group | September 2010
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.
The Survey of American College Students: Student Evaluation of Information Literacy Instruction
Primary Research Group | April 2009
This report presents approximately 125 tables of data exploring how full time college students in the United States view and use and evaluate their college library’s information literacy training. The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students and type, size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables.
The report presents data on the percentage of students who have received information literacy training, how they evaluate the effectiveness of that training, how they perceive their need for additional training, whether they believe that an information literacy course should be required, if they have ever used online tutorials provided by the library, and how they evaluate their own information literacy skills.
Profiles of Best Practices in Academic Library Interlibrary Loan
Primary Research Group | May 2009
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.
Library Energy Conservation Benchmarks
Primary Research Group | February 2009
Library Energy Conservation Benchmarks presents detailed data largely from academic and public libraries about their efforts to conserve energy and reduce their greenhouse gas imprint.
The report covers a broad range of energy use and environmental issues including but not restricted to: architectural and structural changes to preserve energy, better use of insulation, current and planned use of alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal; management of library-operated vehicles; use of energy audits and energy-efficient computer workstation management, among other issues.
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The research team accesses state, county and federal sources and compiles current bid and proposal opportunities for publication in Library Bid & RFP Alert, providing a cost-efficient and timely resource for businesses that sell to libraries.
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The 2011 Librarian's Yellow Pages
The Library Resources Group | January 2011
Designed by librarians for librarians and now in its 17th annual edition, The Librarian's Yellow Pages (LYP) is the definitive directory and buyer's guide for the library community.
Features:
- 8-1/2x11", perfect-bound
- 172 pages
- 1500+ library suppliers
- 5000+ product/service listings
- 620 product/service headings
- Easy-to-use design and navigation
- 3 convenient formats: hardcopy (free*), DVD (free*) and interactive digital download (free)
- Companion Web site
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