Faculty Surveys: 2000-2009
Ithaka S+R Faculty Surveys provide a regular examination of key strategic issues facing information services organizations in higher education. Conducted every three years, these large-scale surveys of 3,000 + faculty examine changes in faculty attitudes toward the academic library, information resources, and the scholarly communications system as a whole.
Background
Since 2000, we have examined how new technologies are impacting and reflected in faculty attitudes and behaviors. Our long-term trend analysis enables us to analyze their attitudes through the transition from what was a local, largely print information environment to an increasingly electronic one.
These surveys have focused on colleges and universities in the United States that grant a bachelor’s or a more advanced degree. They have been designed to allow for detailed discipline-level stratification in all the major arts and sciences disciplines, as well as a number of professional fields. We conducted these surveys in the fall of 2000, 2003, 2006, and, most recently, 2009, updating the questionnaire to match the rapidly-changing environment, but allowing for a powerful tracking system of change in faculty attitudes and practices.
Results, Publications, and Presentations