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Annual Report Survey - Against the Grain

Against The Grain - Annual Report Survey

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(1) What are the top five things that you are most concerned about in our industry in the 21st century (first entry being the top)?
(2) Has your library bought eBooks in the past three years?

annual budget for e-books
(3) Has your budget for eBooks:

Approximate Percentage:
(4) Has your technical services operation been downsized in the past two years? If Yes, provide specifics
professional staff decrease
paraprofessional staff decrease
teams implementation
merge with cataloging
merge with ILL
Other - Please Specify:
(5) What have the effects been?

Please Explain:
(6) In the past year, has your materials budget:

Approximate Percentage:
(7) In the past year, has your materials budget for books:

Approximate Percentage:
(8) In the past year, has your materials budget for journals:

Approximate Percentage:
(9) In the past year, has your materials budget for electronic resources:

Approximate Percentage:
(10) What percentage (don't include percentage sign) of your total materials budget this year (2005/2006) is going to
books
electronic serials
CD-ROMs
journals
online resources (gateways)
other - please specify
(11) Which Integrated Library System (ILS) do you use for the acquisition of books?
(12) Which ILS do you use for the acquisition of serials?
(13) List the vendors/aggregators you use for each.

books:
serials:
(14) Does your library use commercial document delivery or pay-per-view?
Please specify percentage of total operating budget or actual dollars budgeted to document delivery:
(15) Please rate your library's document delivery operation. Other:
(16) Please rate your library's pay-per-view system. Other:
(17) Do you use ILLs or pay-per-view as a concrete factor in collection purchasing decisions, ie, do you purchase books and journals based on ILL statistics?
Comments:
(18) Do you keep use statistics on your electronic resources?
Comments:
(19) Does your library provide training for your Library Technical Assistants?
Comments:
(19a) What type of training?
in-house classes by existing staff
continuing education in-house (with experts from outside the library)
satellite transmissions
fund travel to conferences, workshops, etc.
fund credit courses
Other - Please Specify:
(20) How are you dealing with more resources and more demands? absorbing the work into current workflow
provide essential services only (with experts from outside the library)
teacher end user to do research on his/her own
send user to another library workshops, etc.
other - Please Specify:
(21) Have you implemented an eBook approval plan?
(21a) If not, do you plan to implement an eBook approval plan within the next two years?
(21b) If so, please list in what subject categories you plan to purchase eBooks.
(22) Have you cancelled paper subscriptions in favor of electronic subscription to journals?
Approximate Dollar Amount (Use no "$" sign): Have you cancelled paper subscriptions in favor of electronic subscription to reference materials?
Approximate Dollar Amount (Use no "$" sign):
(23) If your question to 22 is yes, how are you dealing with the issue of archiving the information?
some other library will worry about this
will keep electronic information in whatever format we acquire it
are keeping paper for the present
other - Please Specify:
(24) What approximate percentage of your serials budget is devoted to electronic journals and databases?
(25) What approximate percentage of your serials budget is devoted to print journals and indexes?
(26) Does your institution offer distant education?
If Yes, where?:
(26a) How does the library support distance education?
(27) Is your library merged with your computer center?
Comments:
(28) What type of librarian are you?
Other:
(29) What library publications do you read?
Against the Grain
Choice
C&RL
Internet World
Wired
Library Journal
Special Libraries
Information Technology in Libraries
Publishers Weekly
LACTS
Other - Please Specify:
(30) How many years have you been a librarian?