Library conducts survey of UVA faculty on views of Library services and collections

Library conducts survey of UVA faculty on views of Library services and collections

“The local survey overlapped the national Ithaka S+R survey from 2018, in which faculty nationwide responded to questions on topics such as how they discover and access materials in the Library and their view of the role played by the libraries in support of faculty members’ needs. The main reason for conducting a local survey was to discover how UVA faculty view the University Library in comparison to how faculty responded in the national survey.

The survey generated responses from 335 faculty members (11% of all those contacted) to an array of probing questions about faculty perspectives on research and teaching and what their experiences with the Library have been like in the following areas:

• Scholarly Communication, covering valued publishing services and issues of copyright and article deposit.
• Material Types and Formats, exploring various types of materials for research and teaching, such as formal publications, primary source materials, print and digital journals and monographs.
• Discovery & Access, taking stock of how faculty members search for known items and the value of mechanisms for gaining access to research literature.”