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Press Release from Primary Research Group, Inc.
The information buying balance of power has subtly shifted in favor of libraries, especially those that tend to be aware of alternative web access
to databases often carried by commercial online services.
New York, July 27, 2000: The information buying balance of power has subtly shifted in favor of libraries, especially those that tend to be aware
of alternative web access to databases often carried by commercial online services, according to a new study just published by Primary
Research Group. The study-The Survey of Academic and Special Libraries, 2001 edition (isbn#:1-57440-042-8)-is based on a random sample
of 125 academic, legal, medical, corporate and government libraries. The survey data is broken out by library type (corporate, legal,
medical/health, academic, and government/non-profit), by school type (public, private, or non-academic), and by size of the library, based on the
library's level of expenditures. The 200 page report presents more than 500 tables of data. The price of the report is $72.95.
Other findings of the study include:
Spending on electronic journals has increased sharply, especially by larger academic libraries.
Spending for audio-video materials such as films, filmstrips, videos, audio tapes, audio books, CD's, laserdisks and DVD surged in both special
and academic library markets in the year 2000, with mean spending by the libraries in the sample increasing from $23,732 in 1999 to an
estimated $30,338 in the year 2000.
Patron demand for books has increased over the past two years, even though library spending for books has been slightly declining, with mean
spending dropping from $171,364 to $169,708 in 2000.
Libraries reported a 24.94% mean increase in Internet usage by patrons at the library within the past 6 months, an extraordinary phenomena
considering that the period in question is merely one half of a year.
The Study includes over 550 tables. There are sections on commercial on-line services, database decision-making, access, and spending,
electronic document delivery services, CD-ROMs, DVDs, internet usage, library satisfaction and usage surveys, software, print journals,
electronic journals, photocopying machines, cataloging, libraries' web pages, libraries' intranets, books, maps and other topographical
information, magazines, audio-video, and optical imaging and archiving.
For additional information or a review copy, please contact James Moses or Michael Lee at 212-245-2327, or email your request to
PRIMARYDAT@MINDSPRING.COM.
< a herf="http://www.primaryresearch.com/200609171-Information-Science-excerpt.html">The Survey of Academic Libraries
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