This presentation was given over the lunch break and provided some preliminary data for the next year of Information Today's Library Resource Guide survey of library budgets. The survey has been compiled annually with support from ProQuest. There was a lot of data presented in this presentation and I didn't get close to all of it, but it was quite interesting to see what kinds of things they are finding out about library expenditures and how they've shifted over the past few years.
Before going over library numbers, the presenter mentioned that publishers were asked “How important are librarians?” 35% of the publishers answered "not as important as they used to be" while 65% said that librarians were "important."
The presenter then asked for a show of hands of those attending about their role in budgets and deemed that librarians were important based on the hands.
The figures presented for 2013 represented the responses of 511 participants: 38% Academic libraries, 34% Public libraries, 10% Special libraries, 5% Government libraries, and 12% Other.
Some example numbers provided were:
| Change | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase: | 31% | 31% | 35% | 33% |
| Same: | 25% | 24% | 27% | 30% |
| Decrease: | 41% | 41% | 32% | 22% |
| Change | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase | 29% | 35% | 33% | 30% |
| Same | 38% | 36% | 35% | 35% |
| Decrease | 10% | 9% | 5% | 6% |
| Change | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase | 41% | 42% | 47% | 39% |
| Same | 31% | 36% | 29% | 32% |
| Decrease | 13% | 12% | 10% | 8% |
| Use? | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currently | 7% | 12% | 16% |
| Plan to use | 13% | 22% | 22% |
| No plans | 42% | 37% | 34% |
| Don't know | 37% | 30% | 29% |
| Challenge | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maintaining services on tight budgets | 83% | 82% | 79% |
| Keeping up with IT | 64% | 68% | 69% |
| Identifying new funding | 43% | 44% | 38% |
| Keeping facilities open / maintaining operational levels | 37% | 32% | 26% |
| Staff recruitment / retention | 33% | 33% | 34% |
| Migrating print to digital | 31% | 35% | 35% |
| Competing with the Internet | 26% | 29% | 27% |
| Service | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social | 52% | 49% | 52% |
| Sharing web pages | 26% | 30% | 38% |
| Wiki & blog | 38% | 30% | 28% |
| Patron reviews | 24% | 24% | 24% |
| Document sharing / web apps | 15% | 18% | 22% |
You can download 2012 report from the Library Resource Guide site.
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