From: Primary Research Group <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:18:18 -0400

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic
Library Leadership: Evaluation of the Institutional Digital
Repository, ISBN 978-157440-600-9

This report, based primarily on a survey of 73 largely
research-oriented colleges and universities, presents the views of
library directors, deans, university librarians and other high level
library officials about the current state of and future plans for the
library’s institutional digital repository.  The study helps its
readers to answer questions such as:  how much are libraries currently
spending on their repositories and how much do they plan to spend in
the future?  How much staff labor is being spent on the repository and
have staffs or use of staff time grown in recent years? How satisfied
is upper library management with the digital repository? What are its
plans for the repository over the next few years – for outreach,
marketing, platforms, and more?

Data in the report is broken out by institutional type and size and
other variables; for example data is presented separately for R1 and
R2 level research institutions, for doctoral institutions and for all
other types of college.  In addition, the data is broken out for some
personal variables of the survey respondent, such as job title and age
range.

Just of few of the 48-page report’s many findings are that:

More than 88% of the R1 level institutions in the sample had an
institutional digital repository.

49.32% of survey participants felt that their institutional spending
on their repositories would remain more or less the same over the next
year.

Over the past three years private colleges have been more active than
public ones in adding staff to their repositories.

A PDF edition of the report is currently available from Primary
Research Group and a print edition is in production and will be
available for shipment on September 6, 2019. site licenses are also
available. For a table of contents, participants list and the survey
questionnaire view the product page for this report at:
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=574

Reach us by phone at 212-736-2316 and our general website URL is
www.PrimaryResearch.com.

James Moses, Research Director
Primary Research Group Inc.
2585 Broadway #156
New York, New York  10025
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