Primary Research Group has published Corporate & Business Library Benchmarks, 2013 Edition, ISBN 978-1-57440-210-0.

This 230+ page study looks at trends among corporate and other business libraries, such as those of MBA programs or trade associations. The report gives detailed data on trends in spending, materials purchasing, employment, virtual library development, technology acquisitions, evolving role of the corporate librarian, use of internet resources, and many other issues of interest to corporate and business librarians. Data is broken out for corporate and non-corporate business libraries, and also by library size and focus (sci-tech, business, etc.). For corporate libraries, the study presents per employee spending data on a range of library materials and services.

Just a few of the many findings from this report are:

• Non-corporate libraries in the sample spent a mean of $339,592 per 100 worldwide employees on salaries in 2011, while corporate libraries spent a mean of just $22,228
• 71.43 percent of libraries in the field of education say their libraries have neither lost nor gained any full-time equivalent positions over the past two years
• Libraries in the sample with less than 5 full-time equivalent employees spent a mean of $69,825 per employee on content and materials in 2011, while those with 5 or more employees spent a mean of $45,005
• The libraries in the sample spent an average of $131,854 each on print and/or electronic versions of professional journals in 2011, or approximately $88,209 per 100 worldwide employees
• The overall sample mean in 2011 for spending on e-books was $21,155, which was less than half the mean spending on traditional print books at $46,801
• Just 22.73 percent of all libraries in the sample have purchased an iPad for use by library patrons or information consumers in the organization, while 40 percent of those libraries with budgets of $2 million or more have made such purchases
• In 2011, survey participants allocated a mean of $1,496,810 each to the overall annual budget for the library
• A third of participants say the library's budget for electronic information is controlled by or managed by the library virtually 100 percent of the time

The study is available in print and PDF format for $198.00. Site licenses cost $299.00. To view a table of contents, list of questions and participants, and sample data, or to order a copy of the report, please visit our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.