New JISC Library Report

JISC’s Attitudinal Survey, conducted by the JISC Monitoring Unit at the University of Kent, covered content, licensing, digitisation and communication issues, with comments submitted from 300 key library and Learning Resource Centre (LRC) staff across 284 HE and FE institutions.

Key findings include:

• Keeping abreast of and incorporating new technologies, pressure on space, information skills and literacy and access management are key challenges facing academic libraries
  
  
• The digitisation of in-house resources is going on, but few institutions have an overall digitisation strategy
  
  
• 25% of HE libraries were involved in the inter-institution procurement of collections during the last year, with 12% digitising collections collaboratively
  
  
• Around one third agreed that academic libraries/LRCs could use social networking opportunities to engage students with their services but most were unsure especially in HE