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The Survey of Academic Librarians: Views of Library Information Literacy Efforts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Primary Research Group)
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Primary Research Group has published: The Survey of Academic Librarians:
Views of Library Information Literacy Efforts, ISBN 1-57440-151-3.
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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.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
Community college librarians spent a mean of 687.31 hours over the
past two years in formal or informal information literacy instruction;
research university librarians spent 280.31 hours.
Half of Canadian librarians in the sample termed their library’s
information literacy efforts good or excellent while only about 40% of
US-based academic librarians felt the same way.
Females seem to carry more of the info literacy work load than men;
mean time spent over the past two years for men was 281.85 hours; 418.07
for women.
More than 75% of librarians considered information literacy
services for disabled students at their institution to be inadequate or merely
adequate
Special collections librarians had the highest opinion of faculty
information literacy skills; 13.16% of them thought that faculty were “
pretty conversant and don’t need much help” and another 63.16% felt that “they
are usually ok on their own but can use a little help from time to time.”
The price of the report is $68.50 in a pdf or print version. Site licenses
are also available. For further information view our website at
www.PrimaryResearch.com.
