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Primary Research Group offers a broad range of studies to help libraries to manage the ongoing shift from paper to digital resources. Our annual report The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices presents essential information for those interested in improving their database acquisition practices, helping to answer questions such as: what kind of bargaining power do libraries have with suppliers? How often do they buy through consortia? How do they cull their collections? How do they make database licensing decisions. Another serial product, which is published every two years, The Survey of Academic Libraries, looks at these and similar issues in the digitization puzzle. Each edition probes many different digitization-related issues such as academic library plans to digitize their own collections, and digitization efforts in special collections. Another annual study -- The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories -- is helpful in gathering information on what libraries are doing to set up and run repositories for the digital and other content produced by faculty of the institution. How are library digitization projects utilized? Our national random sample surveys of faculty and college students enable you to find out who benefits from library digitization practices and who uses the digitized materials. How much are they used by faculty and how much by students? Our studies let you know: how do scholars view our academic library efforts? How does the college administration view us? How do students view us? Our studies also help to answer questions about personnel and the library labor market? How much time do libraries spend on digitization? How many man hours? When do they outsource? To whom do they outsource, if they do so? And how do they evaluate these efforts. Many libraries are as large as small corporations and need the same kind of personnel. marketing and operational management information, and Prmary Research Group studies can give you that at modest cost. We provide timely, accurate surveys and benchmarking reports, often international in scope, to give you real assistance in your digitization effort decision making. Our reports give you valuable and unique information that enhance your own research efforts and give you valuable comparison points to guide your own decision making in database licensing, collections digitization, repository development and other areas. For more resources about Database licensing practices or about survey of academic libraries, as well as regarding library digitization practices please review these pages.
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