During the last decade the academic landscape has changed significantly. Library holdings are digital rather than physical, campuses are networked, and technology has invaded the classroom. As a result, the attitudes and practices of faculty as they relate to information discovery, research, publishing, and teaching have changed and continued to evolve – requiring that the information products and services created by publishers and offered by librarians evolve in parallel.
On December 5, 2013, the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90-minute webinar (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) that will look at the results of a recent survey undertaken by Ithaka S+R to better understand how these faculty attitudes and practices have altered over time. Expert speaker will be Roger C. Schonfeld, Program Director for Libraries, Users, and Scholarly Practices, Ithaka S+R.
Since 2000, the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey has triennially surveyed U.S. faculty members in their roles as researchers, authors, and teachers. In addition to its ability to track change among faculty members for such a long period of time, the survey also allows for analysis at the disciplinary level in many arts and sciences fields, as well as selected professions. Drawing from this dataset, and focusing especially on the most recent findings from fall 2012, this webinar will focus on three key areas of interest to libraries and content providers alike - the discovery of scholarly information, the audiences that faculty members wish to reach and the mechanisms they value to help them to do, and the print to electronic transition for journals and scholarly monographs.
In addition, some selected comparisons will be presented from a parallel survey of UK academics, which was fielded in partnership with JISC and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) in 2012.
The registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=536.
