by Matt Lee
Quick Summary
The Ithaka S+R U.S. Faculty Survey is conducted every three years and asks higher education faculty to reflect on libraries in the context of their research and instruction. As such it highlights overarching trends affecting academic libraries.
The Ithaka S+R U.S. Faculty Survey is conducted every three years and asks higher education faculty to reflect on libraries in the context of their research and instruction. As such it highlights overarching trends affecting academic libraries.
The 2015 Survey was released this month and presents results organized by discipline and institution type. Alongside coverage of faculty research practices, publishing trends, and data management, the survey authors use the word “surging” to describe faculty’s belief that librarians play an important role in teaching research and info lit skills.
The report as a whole is long, but it is divided up into sections:
- Discovery
- Access
- Research topics and practices [faculty research]
- Research dissemination [faculty research]
- Instruction [student research]
- Role of the library [student research]
