Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey 2009

["B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>]

FYI...  Bernie Sloan

--- On Wed, 4/7/10, Ross Housewright 
<Ross.Housewright@ithaka.org> wrote:

From: Ross Housewright <Ross.Housewright@ithaka.org>
Subject: Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey 2009: Strategic Insights for Librarians,
  Publishers, and Societies
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 1:03 PM

Dear colleagues,

We are writing to announce the release of results from Ithaka 
S+R's fourth faculty survey in the last decade, which examines 
changes in faculty attitudes towards the academic library, 
information resources, and the scholarly communications system as 
a whole.

In a published report, Faculty Survey 2009: Strategic Insights 
for Librarians, Publishers, and Societies, Ithaka S+R analyzes 
responses from over 3,000 faculty members based at US four-year 
colleges or universities and offers a unique comparative look at 
2009 against previous surveys from 2000, 2003, and 2006 on a 
variety of key questions facing information service organizations 
and their parent institutions.

Trends in faculty attitudes and behaviors on issues ranging from 
the library as information gateway and the need for preservation 
of scholarly material, to their engagement with institutional and 
disciplinary repositories and thoughts about open access are 
addressed.  For the first time, Ithaka S+R also looked at the 
role that scholarly societies play and their value to faculty.

Some of the key findings of this report include:

*Basic scholarly information use practices have shifted rapidly 
in recent years and, as a result, the academic library is 
increasingly being disintermediated from the discovery process, 
risking irrelevance in one if its core areas.

*Faculty members' growing comfort in relying exclusively on 
digital versions of scholarly materials opens new opportunities 
for libraries, new business models for publishers, and new 
challenges for preservation.

*Despite several years of sustained efforts by publishers, 
scholarly societies, libraries, faculty members, and others to 
reform various aspects of the scholarly communications system, a 
fundamentally conservative set of faculty attitudes continues to 
impede systematic change.

The full report is freely available at http://bit.ly/aJP4pl. 
Results will lso be presented at the Coalition for Networked 
Information Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. on April 12, 2010.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments; we 
look forward to discussing these findings with you!

Sincerely,

Roger Schonfeld & Ross Housewright
Ithaka Strategy & Research