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This survey presents data on how college faculty use
special collections for teaching and research. The
report presents data on overall use of special collections and
on use of specific special collections such as film &
video, photography, rare books and historic documents,
scientific history and rare specimens; posters, catalogs and
other commercial materials; personal archives and estates,
music collections, and art and graphics collections.
The report also presents data on faculty satisfaction with
special collections, generally, and in specific areas such as
ease of use, ease of finding them in library catalogs, ease of
finding them online, ease of obtaining reproductions and
photocopies, and satisfaction with their hours of access,
among other issues. The study also presents precise data
on how often faculty visit special collections and how often
they recommend their use to students and professional
colleagues.
The report is based no results of a survey of more than 550
higher education faculty in the United States and
Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12
criteria including academic field, size of college, type of
college, academic title and other factors.
Available December 2009
