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Ithaka 2009 Faculty Study: Report and
Workshops
Last week, Ithaka released its 2009 Faculty survey -- the fourth
in a series -- that explores the views, attitudes and behaviors of
faculty with respect to libraries, information resources, and
scholarly communication. There was a standing-room-only
presentation at the Spring CNI meeting earlier this week in Baltimore
covering the highlights of the survey.
Ithaka is offering a series of webinars that will explore major
themes of the survey in depth, an excellent opportunity for interested
groups to further explore the findiings.
I've reproduced below both information about the webinars, and
then information about the report itself.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Following last week's release of Ithaka S+R's Faculty Survey
2009 ( http://bit.ly/aJP4pl), we are
pleased to announce a series of webinars that will explore each of the
major themes of this survey in depth. Each webinar will focus on an
individual chapter of the full report, providing the opportunity for a
targeted discussion of the findings of our study and their
implications for libraries, publishers, and scholarly societies.
Webinar Schedule:
Chapter 1: Discovery and the Evolving Role of the Library
When: April 20th, 3pm - 4pm EDT
About: 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,
presenting libraries with some key challenges but also the opportunity
to reallocate resources to other priorities.
Who should attend: Librarians, university administrators, and
others interested in the future of the academic library in the digital
age
Chapter 2: The Format Transition for Scholarly Works
When: April 29th, 3pm - 4pm EDT
About: 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.
Who should attend: Librarians, publishers, and scholarly
societies interested in the print-to-electronic transition
Chapter 3: Scholarly Communications
When: May 5th, 3pm - 4pm EDT
Publishers, scholarly societies, libraries, faculty members, and
others have laid significant groundwork for reforming various aspects
of the scholarly communications system, but faculty attitudes are
driven by incentives and suggest the need for continued
leadership.
Who should attend: Publishers, librarians, scholarly societies,
and faculty members interested in the changing landscape for scholarly
communications
We also have an upcoming webinar on our recently released What to
Withdraw framework and accompanying decision-support tool; more
information is available at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/486363776. We encourage you
to attend any or all of these webinars, and to pass along this
information to any of your colleagues who you believe might be
interested. Thank you very much, and we look forward to hearing your
reactions to the Faculty Survey 2009!
Sincerely,
Roger Schonfeld & Ross Housewright
Roger C. Schonfeld
Manager of Research
Ithaka S+R
Tel: 212-500-2338
Fax: 212-500-2366
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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
also 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 and the CNI
community.
Sincerely,
Roger and Ross
Roger C. Schonfeld
Manager of Research
Ithaka S+R
Tel: 212-500-2338
Fax: 212-500-2366
Ithaka S+R ( www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r)
is the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital
technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research
and teaching in sustainable ways. The Ithaka S+R team supports
innovation in higher education by working with initiatives and
organizations to develop sustainable business models and by conducting
research and analysis on the impact of digital media on the academic
community as a whole. Insights from these efforts are shared broadly,
with more than a dozen reports freely available online. JSTOR, an
accessible archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals and other
content, and Portico, a service that preserves scholarly content
published in electronic form for future generations, are also part of
ITHAKA.
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