Primary Research Group: Research Library International Benchmarks
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Author: Primary Research Group
Number of Pages: 202 pages
Published Date: 30 Jun 2008
Publisher: Primary Research Group
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781574401035
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Description
The 200-page study is based on data from 45 major research libraries from the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, Italy, Japan, Spain, Argentina, and other countries. The report presents a broad range of data on current and planned materials, salary, info technology and capital spending, spending trends for e-books, journals, books and much more. Provides data on trends in personnel deployment, discount margins from vendors, relations with consortiums, information literacy efforts, workstation, laptop and learning space development, use of scanners and digital cameras, use of RFID technology, federated search and many other pressing issues for major research libraries, university and otherwise. Data is broken out separately for government, university and corporate/legal libraries.