The report presents data for library budgets over the past two years and commentary from 118 academic library deans, directors and provosts about the budget outlook for the library over the next two years.
Data in the report is presented in the aggregate and broken out by institutional enrollment, tuition level, public/private status, type or Carnegie class and also by some personal characteristics of the survey participants.
Just a few of this 52-page report’s many findings are that:
- MA.PHD-granting colleges, research oriented but not research universities, were perhaps the most pessimistic with nearly two thirds feeling it was not so easy or not at all easy to get the funds they feel they need.
- The library budgets of the junior college libraries in the sample for the 2018-18 academic year rose from a mean of $434,715 to $435,570 essentially flat and a near 2% reduction in real terms accounting for inflation.
- As the following table shows, the overwhelming majority of colleges sampled felt that obtaining needed library resources was a struggle
Table of Contents
THE QUESTIONNAIRE
PARTICIPANTS LIST
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE
SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
Perceived Ease in Obtaining Resources for the Library
The Library’s Total Budget for the 2017-18 Academic Year
The Library Budget for the 2018-19 Academic Year
Outlook for the Library Budget Over the Next Two Years
Outlook for Junior Colleges
Outlook for BA Granting Institutions
Outlook for MA/PHD Granting Institutions (that are not Research Universities)
Outlook for Research Universities
List of Tables
Table 1.1 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration?
Table 1.2 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by job title
Table 1.3 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by field of study
Table 1.4 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by age of the survey participant
Table 1.5 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 1.6 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by type or Carnegie class of college
Table 1.7 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by enrollment
Table 1.8 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by undergraduate tuition, $
Table 1.9 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by the geographic location of the survey respondent’s college
Table 1.10 How easy is it to obtain the resources you need from the college or university administration? Broken out by gender of the survey participant
Table 2.1 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year?
Table 2.2 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by job title
Table 2.3 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by field of study
Table 2.4 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by age of the survey participant
Table 2.5 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 2.6 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by type or Carnegie class of college
Table 2.7 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by enrollment
Table 2.8 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by undergraduate tuition, $
Table 2.9 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by the geographic location of the survey respondent’s college
Table 2.10 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2017-18 academic year? Broken out by gender of the survey participant
Table 3.1 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year?
Table 3.2 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by job title
Table 3.3 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by field of study
Table 3.4 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by age of the survey participant
Table 3.5 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 3.6 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by type or Carnegie class of college
Table 3.7 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by enrollment
Table 3.8 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by undergraduate tuition, $
Table 3.9 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by the geographic location of the survey respondent’s college
Table 3.10 What was the library’s total budget (in US$) for the 2018-19 academic year? Broken out by gender of the survey participant
What are your expectations for budgetary support from the administration in the upcoming two years? Broken out by type or Carnegie class of college
Samples
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Sources / Contributors
- Arkansas Tech University
- Boise State University
- Bowling Green State University
- Bradley University
- Brenau University
- Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo
- California State University Channel islands
- Chippewa Valley Technical College
- Coastal Carolina University/Kimbel Library
- Dana Medical Library,University of Vermont
- Drexel University
- Florida Atlantic University
- Iowa State University
- Longwood University
- Louisiana State University
- Macalester College
- Manhattan College
- Marist College
- Marquette University
- McGill University
- Mercer County Community College
- Mississippi Valley State University
- Missouri State University-West Plains
- Oral Roberts University
- Panola College
- Point Loma Nazarene University
- Roberts Wesleyan College
- Saint Louis University School of Law
- State Fair Community College
- Stetson University
- SUNY Oswego
- Syracuse University
- The New School Libraries and Archives
- UNC Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library
- University of Arkansas Fayetteville
- University of California Riverside
- University of California San Francisco
- University of Central Arkansas
- University of Kansas Libraries
- University of Kentucky Libraries
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- University of Michigan - Flint
- University of New England
- University of North Dakota
- University of Northern Colorado
- University of Rochester
- University of South Carolina Upstate
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- University of Texas Arlington
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- University pf Detroit Mercy
- Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
- West Virginia University Parkersburg
Methodology
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