Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Use of Geographic Information
The overall results indicate that 52.94% of the respondents are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the geographic information available at their library, while 19.97% are satisfied, 6.02% are very satisfied, 2.74% are dissatisfied, and 0.68% are very dissatisfied. The rest did not answer the question.
The results also show some variations by different criteria. For example: Faculty title: Respondents who are associate professors or lecturers/instructors are more likely than those who have other faculty titles to be satisfied or very satisfied with the geographic information available at their library.
This study gives highly specific information on who, how much and how faculty are using many different geographic information sources including but not limited to: map/geographic info libraries (with separate data sets for in-person visits and online access), Google Maps, Google Earth, Planet.com, aerial photographs, OpenMaps and other resources. The study also presents detailed assessment data on how satisfied faculty are with the geographic information sources available at their college or university libraries, how important these assets are to their work, and how aware respondents are of the availability of geographic information and its relevance for their scholarship and teaching. In addition, the report looks at attitudes towards the growing availability and quality of digitized geographic information, and new means of exploiting it.
- Table 1.1 How important is the use of geographic information in your work?
- Table 1.2 How important is the use of geographic information in your work? Broken out by faculty title 38
- Table 1.3 How important is the use of geographic information in your work? Broken out by enrollment
- Table 1.4 How important is the use of geographic information in your work? Broken out by Carnegie Class or type of college 39
- Table 1.5 How important is the use of geographic information in your work? Broken out by public or private college
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