This report was published a couple of months ago. The blurb below was modified from OCLC's press release.
The report (PDF Format), based on a survey of faculty members to determine their attitudes related to online resources, electronic archiving, teaching and learning and related subjects, suggests a number of specific lessons for libraries:
- The library is in many ways falling off the radar screens of faculty.
- In a networked world, scholarship increasingly occurs across disciplinary or institutional boundaries, challenging the ability of any individual node to alone support this work.
- For a campus or its library to create a viable information strategy for a competitive environment, it must develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the needs of its important constituents.
- Despite the growing significance of information to scientists, the role of the library is diminishing in importance fastest among this group.
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