Primary Research Group has published the International Survey of Research
University Leadership: Evaluation of General University and Academic
Library Information Technology, ISBN 978-157440-487-6

The survey presents the opinion of 249 higher education leaders – deans,
provosts, trustees, chancellors, academic and administrative department
heads, distinguished professors and other leaders and administrators in
research universities – about the quality of their general university and
academic library information technology & related services.  The 70-page
report provides specific benchmarking data on their evaluations of
information databases, academic library info technology assistance, 3D
printing facilities, specialized library technology and group study rooms,
and laptop lending by the academic library. In addition, respondents
evaluate the help they get from the general university IT department as
well as help in using the university course management system and in using
the general college website.

Survey participants relate which technologies they would like to see their
university management and their academic libraries focus on in the near
future.

Data in the reports is broken out by a broad range of criteria including:
age, gender, academic title, and compensation level of respondent, and
university ranking, public/private status and country of origin of the
respondents affiliated institution.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

•    Deans, provosts, and chancellors were the most likely among various
academic and administrative title groups to consider specialized academic
library information technology rooms or “commons’ important as a spending
priority.
•    Respondents from Australia/New Zealand gave the highest level of
support to 3D printing as an information technology spending priority among
the six countries sampled.
•    Younger respondents were much more likely than older ones to rate
their institutions as behind the curve on the range and quality of
information technology available to faculty and staff. 41.67% of
respondents under age 30 believed their universities to be disadvantaged
vis-à-vis peer universities.
•    Male respondents were more likely than females to rate their
experiences with university technology help lines positively; 55.24% rated
their experience as good or excellent compared to just 43.06% of females.

To view a table of contents, an excerpt, a list of the institutional
affiliations of survey participants ---– go to the product page for this
report at:

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Or visit our general website at  www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at
212-736-2316.

Respondents were drawn from major research universities in the USA, Canada,
the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.  A list of the institutional
affiliations of the survey participants is below:

Australian National University
Barnard College
Baylor College of Medicine
Brown University
Carleton University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland
Curtin University
Drexel University
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Griffith University
Imperial College London
James Cook University
Lehigh University
Massey University
McGill University
Michigan State University
Monash University
Penn State College of Medicine
Penn State University
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Queen Mary University of London
Rice University
Rutgers
Saint Louis University
Swinburne University of Technology
Teachers College, Columbia University
The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
University of Idaho
University College Dublin
University of Alberta
University of Birmingham
University of California, Davis
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California--Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Florida
University of Idaho
University of Maryland
University of Maryland--Baltimore
University of Maryland--College Park
University of Michigan
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
University of Michigan School of Information
University of Michigan-Flint
University of Missouri
University of Nottingham
University of Pittsburgh
University of South Florida
University of Tasmania
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
University of Toronto
University of Toronto Scarborough
University of Utah
University of Western Australia
VCUArts in Qatar
Virginia Commonwealth University
Washington State University
Washington University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University