Product Description: The study is based on survey data from 40 academic libraries and looks closely at how they monitor, assess and act to maintain or improve their reputation with key stakeholders such as students, alumni, faculty and college administration...read more

Product Description: This 165-page international study looks closely at how academic libraries are using eBooks. It helps librarians to answer questions such as: how fast is eBook spending growing? Which eBook purchasing models are growing fastest? Subscription models that allow unlimited access” pay per view models? Outright ownership? Other models? What percentage of eBook purchases are through consortia? What percentage direct from publishers? What percentage through aggregators? The report also gives detailed data on spending on various major players such as OverDrive, ebrary, EBSCO, Baker & Taylor, EBL and many others...read more

Product Description: This report looks closely at how academic libraries are re-shaping their websites. The study is based on a survey of 56 academic library web staffs with data broken out by size and type of academic institution and other criteria. The 160 page study gives exhaustive data about academic library preferences in areas such as use of mashups, library social media sites, website staff and budgets, role of the college and library IT staffs, governance of the website, content entry policies, relations with the college IT and web staff, branding issues, college web conformity issues, preferences in content management systems, programming and scripting, division of web staff time among various priorities, use of blogs, listservs, email newsletters, rss feeds and other communication vehicles, use of and plans for federated search, search box presentation strategy, and use of cascading style sheets...read more

Product Description: The 116-page study presents data from 50 colleges and universities about their academic library development and management policies. The study helps its readers answer questions such as: What percentage of academic libraries recently undertook, or plan in the near future, a major website redesign? What are the goals of the website redesigns? How is the academic library website staffed? What is the role of the central college IT department? How have website usability studies been conducted and by whom? Have outside consultants played a role? How many libraries have ancillary sites or presences on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and other cyber sites? How many libraries have committees to oversee their websites? What do librarians consider the best single products and ideas that have helped their websites over the past few years...read more

Product Description: This 160-page report is based on a survey of 89 American colleges and universities and covers a broad range of issues of interest to alumni and advancement professionals including but not limited to: trends in staffing the alumni office, use of the alumni office's work time, alumni office budgets and priorities, governance of the alumni relations effort and level of cooperation among various administrative units and alumni organizations...read more

Product Description: This study presents data from 58 colleges and universities about their alcohol control policies. The study presents detailed commentary and opinions of deans and assistant dean of students, directors of student life and student services, directors of student counseling centers and the college legal staff on what colleges should be doing to control the use of alcohol by students on and in close proximity to campus...read more

Product Description: The 73-page study looks closely at how North American colleges stage and manage their open houses for prospective and admitted students. 43 college participated in the study. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: how large are budgets for campus open houses? What are the most successful events? What percentage of students who attend open houses later go on to attend the college itself? What percentage of open house attendees bring their friends, their parents, or their siblings to open houses? What are attendance trends at open houses? Are colleges giving more or fewer? Which colleges are regarded as models? How are colleges planning to change their open house events? Which college departments are represented on open house planning teams? How many unpaid volunteer and paid student workers are typically used? How cooperative are faculty? How do college evaluate their open house events? Data is broken out by size and type of college, for public and private colleges, and by level of annual tuition...read more

Product Description: The study presents data from a survey of 59 North American colleges about how they select, train, develop and incentivize their campus tour guides. The page reports helps its readers to answer questions such as: how many tour guides do colleges maintain? How do they train their tour guides? How much are they paid if they are paid? What other tasks do tour guides take on when they are not giving tours? How do colleges build enthusiasm and camaraderie among their tour guides? What percentage of college require exams for tour guides and what is on these exams? How do colleges find tour guides in hard-to-fill roles or with special qualifications? Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: • Only 33% of tour guides are male...read more

Product Description: The study looks closely at how 54 colleges and universities plan, develop, implement and evaluate their campus tours. The report looks at how they staff, train and pay their tour guides. It presents detailed data on salaries and budgets, strategies and best practices...read more

Product Description: The study compares the policies of 33 American colleges and universities and looks closely at trends in discounting tuition and granting and managing financial aid. Respondents were largely directors or other high-level officers of admissions or financial aid...read more

Product Description: College Electricity Consumption Benchmarks looks closely at the electricity consumption tendencies of a wide range of colleges, presenting over 75 pages of data on spending habits, annual expenditures, electricity conservation efforts, the usages of various forms of energy, and much more...read more

Product Description: This study looks closely at how 7 North American Institutions of higher education have developed highly focused, intensive English as a Second Language programs to prepare immigrant and foreign students to study in North America. The rising middle and upper middle classes of low and middle income countries such as China, India, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Brazil and many other countries has created a surge in foreign students particularly interested in studying in one of the Big 4 countries of international higher education: the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia...read more

Product Description: Survey of colleges in North America about their information literacy policies

Product Description: The study looks closely at the tutoring programs of approximately 60 colleges. It helps its readers to answer questions such as: how large are tutoring programs and how large are their budgets? Have their budgets been growing? How are their budgets broken down? How much do they spend on technology and what type of technology? How much do they spend on student tutors? Professional tutors? How do they evaluate success? What has been their experience with online tutoring? Or tutoring by appointment? Or with regularly scheduled skills workshops? What are the areas that students seek out for tutoring and has this changed in recent years? How supportive is the college administration of the tutoring program? What is the role of the college library? How supportive is faculty? How are student tutors found and trained...read more

Product Description: This 230+ page study looks at trends among corporate and other business libraries, such as those of MBA programs or trade associations. The report gives data on trends in spending, materials purchasing, employment, virtual library development, technology acquisitions, evolving role of the corporate librarian, use of internet resources and many other issues of interest to corporate and business librarians...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Corporate Library Benchmarks 2009Author: Primary Research Group (COR)Publisher: Primary Research GroupPublication Date: 2008/12/05Number of Pages: 97Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: