Research and Markets: The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Political Science & Public/International Affairs 2012 Edition

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f80337/the_survey_of_acad) has announced the addition of the "The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Political Science & Public/International Affairs" report to their offering.

“The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Political Science & Public/International Affairs”

This report examines academic library purchasing policies in public affairs and political science/government with data based on a sample of 60 academic libraries in the United States and abroad. Comprehensive data details the budgetary allocations for political science and related departments over the past two years as well as projected budgets for the coming year, including itemized spending on print books, ebooks, databases, and scholarly journals and special allocations from endowments and grants. The report investigates the library's relationship with its patrons and how patrons affect decision-making concerning acquisitions and library technologies.

The study looks closely at the priorities and purchasing plans of academic librarians that specialize in political science and public and international affairs, examining their use of books, journals, databases and much more, such as the number of inquiries received from patrons for specific works, and the role of the library liaison for political science and international/government affairs.

Just a few of the report's findings were that:

• 79.41% of libraries in this survey have a specific budgetary allocation for political science and/or related subjects including government and public affairs.
• More than 27% of libraries in the sample have an endowment, grant or other special allocation that falls outside of the normal library budget that supplements purchases in political science.
• Libraries in the sample had a mean of 50.56 distinct subscriptions to journals that charge a subscription fee in 2010 and a mean of 53 subscriptions in 2011, some with as few as 6, others with as many as 170. The number of journal subscriptions of this kind is expected to fall to a mean of 42.56 in 2012.
• Nearly 30% of the libraries surveyed have plans to decrease spending for comparative politics, including 75% of MA and PHD granting institutions and 33.33% of community and 4-year colleges.

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