contents:
New Models for the Federal Depository Library Program; Roger Schonfeld, Manager of Research, Ithaka S+R

Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century, Interim Summary by Ithaka S+R

A Scientist’s View of Open Access; Bernard Schutz, Director, Max PlanCK Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany

A River Runs Through It; Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean, Library Digital Programs, Hodson Director, Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University

Leading from the Middle: Open Access at KU; Lorraine J. Haricombe, Dean, University of Kansas Libraries

Why Are Special Collections so Important? Exploring the Value Proposition of Special Collections

Building on Our Strengths: Opportunities for Special Collections in the Digital Age

Keynote Remarks: An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age; G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Library Options for Publishing Support

Notes on ARL E-Science Working Group Survey

“This document does not encompass all the traditional roles of academic libraries (e.g., selection, cataloging, circulation, course support, etc.), but focuses on roles the academic library could assume in order to better support the research process”

authors: Chris Bourg Stanford University; Ross Coleman University of Sydney; Ricky Erway OCLC Research
With input from the RLG Partnership Research Information Management Roadmap Working Group

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty:
Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals, ISBN 1- 57440-134-3. The study is based on a survey of 550+ higher education
faculty in the USA and Canada. Faculty present their opinions on preferences
for print or paper journal formats, degree of problems with archival access, use of url-catalog links to journals, extent to which their college library journal collection satisfies their scholarly needs, and frequency of database access and library visits. Data is broken out by 12 criteria including age, academic field or specialty, type of college, size of college, frequency of library use, and many other factors.

Just a few findings of the report are:

† Canadian faculty were more likely than American faculty to think of
the paper copies as a waste of time – nearly 45% thought so.
† In general, age was highly inversely correlated with the tendency to
think of paper copies as wasteful and redundant when online versions were available.
† Only 13.86% of faculty at research universities prefer paper to online
journal formats.
† Only a third of community college faculty express support for
increased spending on academic journals while about 64.3% of faculty in MA/Ph.D. granting colleges expressed such support.

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