Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Making Copies in the Academic Library
This study looks at frequency of use of library photocopiers, and also provides data comparing library patron production of print and digital copies in academic libraries. The study also looks at the overall level of satisfaction with library photocopiers and scanners, furnishing data on how often they are used and by whom, enhancing the quality of decision making over their future placement, servicing and overall use.
This 77-page study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others. Readers can compare the number of copies made by faculty in law or medicine to that in the social sciences, for example, or to business faculty. Also, use of library scanners by associate professors can be compared to that for full professors, or use by faculty aged 60 or over to that of faculty aged 31-39. Activity tends to be higher at research universities than elsewhere; more than 30% of faculty at level 1 or level 2 research universities perform these digital copying functions either daily or a few times a week. Broken out by race or ethnicity, Black or African American faculty were more active than White, Asian or indigenous faculty. Nearly 32% of African-American faculty were making digital copies either daily or a few times per week.
- Table 1.1 How often do you save to your hard drive, email to yourself, print out or otherwise make a copy of articles, eBooks and other digital resources provided by your academic library?
- Table 1.2 How often do you save to your hard drive, email to yourself, print out or otherwise make a copy of articles, eBooks and other digital resources provided by your academic library? Broken out by work title
- Table 1.3 How often do you save to your hard drive, email to yourself, print out or otherwise make a copy of articles, eBooks and other digital resources provided by your academic library? Broken out by Carnegie class or type of college
- Table 1.4 How often do you save to your hard drive, email to yourself, print out or otherwise make a copy of articles, eBooks and other digital resources provided by your academic library? Broken out by public or private college
- Table 1.5 How often do you save to your hard drive, email to yourself, print out or otherwise make a copy of articles, eBooks and other digital resources provided by your academic library? Broken out by enrollment 28
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