This 61-page report presents data and commentary from 100 academic library directors and deans about their library’s recent experience and plans for library expansion, renovation or new construction. The report helps its readers to answer questions such as: how much control to librarians have over the library’s capital budget and future renovation/construction plans? Does the library have a planning commission? How much have libraries been spending on capital projects? What have been the most successful renovation or expansion projects? What have been the least successful? What is on the wish list for the near future and what is actually planned or approved? What have been recent trends in the budget for renovation or expansion of the library?
Just a few of this report’s many findings are that:
- A plurality of 42% said that their library did not have a capital budget.
- Research universities reported extreme cramping and a strong need for new space despite the freeing up of space in recent years by the contraction of print collections.
- 21% of librarians sampled felt that they were not listened to “nearly enough” by college administration in establishing priorities for library capital spending.
- Far fewer private than public college librarians felt that the library capital budget had increased in recent years.
- Data in the report is broken out by size and type of institution, by tuition level, for public and private institutions and by other useful variables.
Table of Contents
1. THE QUESTIONNAIRE
2. PARTICIPANTS LIST
- Characteristics of the Sample
3. SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
- Age of the Main Library Building
- Mean Number of Library Buildings Per College
- View of the Adequacy of the Library Capital Budget
- The Library Buildings Most Pressing Renovation Need
- Most Successful New Addition or Renovation Project
- The Library’s Level of Influence Over Library Capital Projects
- Changes in the Library Capital Budget Over the Past Three Years
- A Library Renovation Project that in Retrospect One Might Have Altered or Cancelled Outright
- Planned Spending on New Library Construction
- Libraries that Have Planning Commissions and Planning Commissions with a Budget
List of Tables
Table 1.1 When was your library's main library building constructed?
Table 1.2 When was your library's main library building constructed? Broken out by age range
Table 1.3 When was your library's main library building constructed? Broken out by for public and private institutions
Table 1.4 When was your library's main library building constructed? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 1.5 When was your library's main library building constructed? Broken out by enrollment
Table 1.6 When was your library's main library building constructed? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 2.1 How many independent buildings comprise your academic library or library complex for the entire college or university in all locations?
Table 2.2 How many independent buildings comprise your academic library or library complex for the entire college or university in all locations? Broken out by age range
Table 2.3 How many independent buildings comprise your academic library or library complex for the entire college or university in all locations? Broken out by for public and private institutions
Table 2.4 How many independent buildings comprise your academic library or library complex for the entire college or university in all locations? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 2.5 How many independent buildings comprise your academic library or library complex for the entire college or university in all locations? Broken out by enrollment
Table 2.6 How many independent buildings comprise your academic library or library complex for the entire college or university in all locations? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 2.7 How many independent buildings comprise your academic library or library complex for the entire college or university in all locations? Broken out by when was your library’s main library building constructed?
Table 3.1 How would you characterize your library's capital budget for the next two years?
Table 3.2 How would you characterize your library's capital budget for the next two years? Broken out by age range
Table 3.3 How would you characterize your library's capital budget for the next two years? Broken out by for public and private institutions
Table 3.4 How would you characterize your library's capital budget for the next two years? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 3.5 How would you characterize your library's capital budget for the next two years? Broken out by enrollment
Table 3.6 How would you characterize your library's capital budget for the next two years? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 3.7 How would you characterize your library's capital budget for the next two years? Broken out by when was your library’s main library building constructed?
What is your library's most pressing renovation or expansion need? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Describe your library' most successful new addition or renovation project and how did it benefit your higher ed community? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 4.1 How would you describe the influence of the library in determining its own capital spending priorities?
Table 4.2 How would you describe the influence of the library in determining its own capital spending priorities? Broken out by age range
Table 4.3 How would you describe the influence of the library in determining its own capital spending priorities? Broken out by for public and private institutions
Table 4.4 How would you describe the influence of the library in determining its own capital spending priorities? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 4.5 How would you describe the influence of the library in determining its own capital spending priorities? Broken out by enrollment
Table 4.6 How would you describe the influence of the library in determining its own capital spending priorities? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 4.7 How would you describe the influence of the library in determining its own capital spending priorities? Broken out by when was your library’s main library building constructed?
Table 5.1 To the best of your knowledge the library's share of the college/university overall capital budget has tended to increase, decrease or remain about the same over the past three years?
Table 5.2 To the best of your knowledge the library's share of the college/university overall capital budget has tended to increase, decrease or remain about the same over the past three years? Broken out by age range
Table 5.3 To the best of your knowledge the library's share of the college/university overall capital budget has tended to increase, decrease or remain about the same over the past three years? Broken out by for public and private institutions
Table 5.4 To the best of your knowledge the library's share of the college/university overall capital budget has tended to increase, decrease or remain about the same over the past three years? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 5.5 To the best of your knowledge the library's share of the college/university overall capital budget has tended to increase, decrease or remain about the same over the past three years? Broken out by enrollment
Table 5.6 To the best of your knowledge the library's share of the college/university overall capital budget has tended to increase, decrease or remain about the same over the past three years? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 5.7 To the best of your knowledge the library's share of the college/university overall capital budget has tended to increase, decrease or remain about the same over the past three years? Broken out by when was your library’s main library building constructed?
If there is one library construction or renovation project that you could-in retrospect-cancel or alter-- which one and what would you have done differently? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 6.1 Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend (in US $) on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities?
Table 6.2 Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend (in US $) on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities? Broken out by Age Range
Table 6.3 Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend (in US $) on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities? Broken out by for public and private institutions
Table 6.4 Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend (in US $) on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 6.5 Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend (in US $) on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities? Broken out by Enrollment
Table 6.6 Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend (in US $) on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities? Broken out by Tuition, $
Table 6.7 Over the next two years, how much will your library-and your parent institution-spend (in US $) on new library construction or significant renovation or expansion that can be considered more than routine maintenance of existing facilities? Broken out by when was your library’s main library building constructed?
Table 7.1 If the library has some form of planning commission or department, does it have a formal budget?
Table 7.2 If the library has some form of planning commission or department, does it have a formal budget? Broken out by age range
Table 7.3 If the library has some form of planning commission or department, does it have a formal budget? Broken out by for public and private institutions
Table 7.4 If the library has some form of planning commission or department, does it have a formal budget? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of institution
Table 7.5 If the library has some form of planning commission or department, does it have a formal budget? Broken out by enrollment
Table 7.6 If the library has some form of planning commission or department, does it have a formal budget? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 7.7 If the library has some form of planning commission or department, does it have a formal budget? Broken out by when was your library’s main library building constructed?
Sources / Contributors
- Alliant International University
- American International College
- American Museum of Natural History
- Baylor University
- Bentley University
- Bradley University
- Bryan College
- Calvin University
- Catawba Valley Community College
- Champlain College
- Clark State Community College
- Clarks Summit University
- College of Southern Idaho Library
- Columbus College of Art and Design
- Community College of Rhode Island
- Cornell College
- Emory and Henry College
- Florida International University
- Florida National University
- Frederick Community College
- Fuller Theological Seminary
- Georgetown College
- Goucher College
- Hamilton College
- Heritage University
- Howard Payne University
- Jackson State Community College
- Jarvis Christian College
- Juniata College
- Kennesaw State University
- La Salle University
- LaGuardia Community College
- Lawrence Technological University
- Liberty University
- Longwood university
- Louisiana State University
- Loyola Marymount University
- LSU Health Shreveport
- Lyon College
- Mansfield University of PA
- Mercy College
- Mercyhurst University
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Mississippi Valley State University
- Missouri Western State University
- Molloy College
- New College
- North Shore Community College
- Northeastern University
- Northwest Nazarene University
- Oberlin College Libraries
- OUWB School of Medicine
- Palomar College
- Pfeiffer University
- Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
- Point Loma Nazarene University
- Point Park University
- Providence College
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
- River Parishes Community College
- Rockford University
- Salve Regina University
- Sam Houston State University
- San Diego Christian College
- Seattle University
- Southeast Missouri State University
- Southwestern Adventist University
- Spring Hill College
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- Sullivan University
- SUNY Broome Community College
- Syracuse University
- Texas & M University
- The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
- Thomas Jefferson University
- Toccoa Falls College
- Trine University
- Union College
- University of Arkansas Little Rock
- University of North Carolina at Pembroke
- University of Hawaii at Hilo
- University of Louisiana at Monroe
- University of New England
- University of North Dakota
- University of North Texas
- University of Northern Colorado
- University of St. Thomas
- University of Texas at Arlington
- University of Toledo
- USC Upstate
- USMMA Library
- Vassar College
- Wenatchee Valley College
- Wilkes University
- William Paterson University of New Jersey
- Woodbury University
- Xavier University of Louisiana
- Yeshiva University
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