Bøger af Primary Research Group

The 160+ page study examines the purchasing plans of academic libraries for key computing infrastructure including plans for fixed workstations, personal computers, laptops, netbooks, tablets and other computing devices. The report helps to answer questions such as: how are libraries and their sometime patrons in college information technology departments allocating funds among different types of computing devices? How has the mobile computing revolution affected plans for fixed workstation purchasing? What percentage of students use their own computers in the library and what percentage of them use the library's computers? What computer brands do libraries prefer? What are the official and real replacement cycles for computers? How many computers are reserved for staff use alone? To what extent are libraries concentrating computing resources in "information commons" or technology centers? What is the future or such centers? What are their budgets? How much are libraries allocating to computer and information literacy? How effective are these policies.

The study looks closely at the growing role of the academic library in lecture capture technologies now widely deployed across higher education to capture, preserve and capitalize on the enormous intellectual property embodied in millions of higher education course sessions. The report looks at how academic libraries are themselves using lecture capture in information literacy and other applications, and also how they are playing a role in providing metadata, archiving, technology and education services to other end users of lecture capture technology in higher education. The study provides detailed data on product selection, cooperation with other departments of the college or university over lecture capture deployment, use of lecture capture in technology centers, and the impact of lecture capture on library information literacy efforts.

The study presents detailed data and commentary on how public libraries raise funds through book and other materials sales, grants, events and fundraisers, bequests, sale of naming rights, direct mail and online solicitation, activities of friends of library groups and other means. The study presents data on library receipts through wills, tributes and memorials, as well as channels such as grants and annual fund drives. Data is broken out by size of library for better benchmarking. The report also looks at the activities of friends of the library groups, giving data on size and growth rates and on funds raised.Other issues discussed include online solicitations, publicity and marketing, development staff and the productivity of time spent on procuring grants. This unique study enables its readers to answer questions such as: how much do libraries receive through bequests? What are the most effective online fundraising tools? How much do friends of the library groups typically raise? How much money is raised from book sales?

The study looks closely at how law firms use various features of LinkedIn, including paid ads, video ads, InMail, invitations, participation in LinkedIn Groups and other features of the most important social networking site for lawyers. The report includes hard data on the number of LinkedIn followers per firm, and of spending on various LinkedIn services. The study also details the policies of different firms on developing LinkedIn profiles, frequency of updating or posts, and use of LinkedIn visitor metrics for marketing purposes. The study helps firms to answer questions such as: What really works on LinkedIn for law firms? How important is LinkedIn vs other sites such as Google+ or Twitter?Data in the report is broken out by size of law firm and by other useful variables such as the extent of firm revenues from litigation, and the main audience for the firm's services (individuals, big business, medium-sized business or small business).

This report looks closely at satisfaction with the medical library by scholars from medical faculties in more than 50 institutions worldwide, but particularly from the United States. A sample of 141 medical scholars rate their libraries for ease of use, accessibility, comfort, collection breadth, quality of interlibrary loan services, subject specialists, and technology. Also we asked the sample how they would spend their medical library's budget and whether they would spend more on eBooks, Print books, journals, librarians and library technology. Data is broken out by medical specialty, academic rank, gender, income level, type of medical school and other criteria.

This 126-page report looks closely at college practices in renting out facilities for camps, conference and special events, giving detailed data on revenues, costs, budgets, marketing efforts, program management and future prospects. The report imparts a detailed statistical record of the cost structure of the rental effort and range of facilities made available at different times of the year, in the summer, during the school year and over winter break, for example. In addition survey participants evaluate revenue prospects from summer camps, sports camps, rental of theatrical and athletic facilities, corporate and academic meetings, technology facilities rentals and much much more. The report also covers areas such as food service at events, the role of providing and charging for parking facilities, vendor selection for event support, and more.

"This monograph profiles the digitization efforts of eight North American university art, architecture, and design libraries"--Page 6.