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Faculty/librarian opinion on necessity of academic library services U.S./Canada 2015

Faculty and librarian opinion on how essential various library services are for students and faculty, as of 2015

The data displays the opinion of faculty and librarians on how essential academic library services are for student and faculty in the U.S. and Canada in 2015. In 2015, 97% of librarian respondents thought the instruction of students in information literacy was either essential or very essential.

Instruction of students in information literacy	97	84
Support faculty research	79	84
Develop discipline-wide collections	91	77
Aid and educate students one-on-one in conducting research	96	75
Develop collections in direct support of course curriculums	97	73
Manage course reserves	80	72
Coordinate research data services	49	64
Add faculty articles to digital repository	50	61
Text and data mining	33	55
Parcel course materials from seperate texts	21	36
Manage research grants	14	27

Faculty/librarian opinion on necessity of academic library services U.S./Canada 2015

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