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Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2009 Edition

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December 1, 2008
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Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2009 Edition presents extensive data from 52 corporate and other business-oriented libraries; data is broken out by company size, type of industry and other criteria.

The mean number of employees for the organizations in the sample is 16,000; the median, 1700. Some of the many issues covered in the report are: spending on electronic and print forms of books, directories, journals and other information resources; library staffing trends, number of library locations maintained and the allocation of office space to the library, disputes with publishers, allocation of library staff time, level of awareness of database contract terms of peer institutions, reference workload, and the overall level of influence of the library in corporate decision making.

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SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS: Time Frame of Surveying; The Number of Libraries Maintained; Trend in the Number of Visitors to the Physical Location of the Library; Library Staffing; Spending on Salaries; Outsourcing of Research; Budget Trends; Library Control of the Organizational Information Technology Budget; Library Spending on Total Content/Materials; Librarian Time Spent Reviewing Contract Terms; Use of Professional Legal Assistance on Library Contracts; Publishers and Libraries that Have Threatened One Another with Lawsuits Over; Information Services Contracts; Legal Terms of Information Services Contracts; Free Trial Use of Databases; Role of Blogs & Social Networking Sites; Trend in the Number and Form of Journal Subscriptions Maintained Spending on Journals; Spending on Traditional and E-books; Spending on Directories; Reference Question Workload; Library Influence in Corporate Decision-Making
Section 1: Introduction and Demographic Info
Section 2: The Physical Space of the Library
SECTION 3: Staffing
Section 4: Overall Budget
Section 5: Spending on Materials/Content
Section 6: Use of Blogs, Social Networking Sites and Wikis
Section 7: Print and Electronic Journals and Periodicals
Section 8: Books
Section 9: Research for Patrons
Section 10: Information Purchasing Decision Making
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List of Tables: Table 1.1: U.S. and Non-U.S. Institutions (U.S./Non); Table 1.2: Approximate Worldwide Annual Total Revenue Range (Revenue Range); Table 1.3: Institution’s Type of Industry (Type of Industry); Table 1.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Approximate Number of Worldwide Employees; Table 1.5: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Approximate Number of Worldwide Employees, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 1.6: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Approximate Number of Worldwide Employees, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 1.7: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Approximate Number of Worldwide Employees, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 2.1: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Separate Library Locations; Table 2.2: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Separate Library Locations, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 2.3: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Separate Library Locations, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 2.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Separate Library Locations, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 2.5: Trend of the Expansion of Library Locations over the Past Three Years; Table 2.6: Trend of the Expansion of Library Locations over the Past Three Years, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 2.7: Trend of the Expansion of Library Locations over the Past Three Years, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 2.8: Trend of the Expansion of Library Locations over the Past Three Years, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 2.9: Trend of the Expansion of Space Allocated to the Library over the Past Five Years; Table 2.10: Trend of the Expansion of Space Allocated to the Library over the Past Five Years, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 2.11: Trend of the Expansion of Space Allocated to the Library over the Past Five Years, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 2.12: Trend of the Expansion of Space Allocated to the Library over the Past Five Years, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 2.13: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage Change in the Size of the Library Over the Past Five Years (Universe of Libraries that have Altered the Size of their Total Library Space); Table 2.14: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage Change in the Size of the Library Over the Past Five Years, Broken Out by U.S./Non (Universe of Libraries that have Altered the Size of their Total Library Space); Table 2.15: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage Change in the Size of the Library over the Past Five Years, Broken Out by Type of Industry (Universe of Libraries that have Altered the Size of their Total Library Space) Corporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition; Table 2.16: Projected Expansion of the Space Allocated to the Library over the NextThree Years; Table 2.17: Projected Expansion of the Space Allocated to the Library over the NextThree Years, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 2.18: Projected Expansion of the Space Allocated to the Library over the NextThree Years, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 2.19: Projected Expansion of the Space Allocated to the Library over the NextThree Years, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 2.20: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Daily Visitors to theLibrary’s Physical Location; Table 2.21: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Daily Visitors to theLibrary’s Physical Location, Broken Out by U.S./NON; Table 2.22: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Daily Visitors to theLibrary’s Physical Location, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 2.23: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Daily Visitors to theLibrary’s Physical Location, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 2.24: Trend in the Number of Daily Visitors to the Library over the Past TwoYears 30; Table 2.25: Trend in the Number of Daily Visitors to the Library over the Past TwoYears, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 2.26: Trend in the Number of Daily Visitors to the Library over the Past TwoYears, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 2.27: Trend in the Number of Daily Visitors to the Library over the Past TwoYears, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 3.1: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Full Time EquivalentLibrarians Employed by the Organization's Corporate or Business Libraries; Table 3.2: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Full Time EquivalentLibrarians Employed by the Organization’s Corporate or Business Libraries, Broken Outby U.S./Non; Table 3.3: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Full Time EquivalentLibrarians Employed by the Organization’s Corporate or Business Libraries, Broken Outby Revenue Range; Table 3.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Full Time EquivalentLibrarians Employed by the Organization’s Corporate or Business Libraries, Broken Outby Type of Industry; Table 3.5: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Non-Librarian FullTime Equivalent Employees Employed by the Organization's Corporate or BusinessLibraries; Table 3.6: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Non-Librarian FullTime Equivalent Employees Employed by the Organization’s Corporate or BusinessLibraries, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 3.7: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Non-Librarian FullTime Equivalent Employees Employed by the Organization’s Corporate or BusinessLibraries, Broken Out by Revenue Range Corporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition5; Table 3.8: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Non-Librarian FullTime Equivalent Employees Employed by the Organization’s Corporate or BusinessLibraries, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 3.9: Library Hiring Trend over the Past Two Years; Table 3.10: Library Hiring Trend over the Past Two Years, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 3.11: Library Hiring Trend over the Past Two Years, Broken Out by RevenueRange; Table 3.12: Library Hiring Trend over the Past Two Years, Broken Out by Type ofIndustry; Table 3.13: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Total Library Spending onSalaries in 2008 (in $); Table 3.14: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Total Library Spending onSalaries in 2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $); Table 3.15: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Total Library Spending onSalaries in 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 3.16: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Total Library Spending onSalaries in 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry (in $); Table 3.17: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Salaries for 2009 (in $); Table 3.18: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Salaries for 2009, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $); Table 3.19: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Salaries for 2009, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 3.20: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Salaries for 2009, Broken Out by Type of Industry (in $); Table 3.21: Libraries that Have Outsourced Research Functions to Librarians or OtherResearchers Based in Developing Countries; Table 3.22: Libraries that Have Outsourced Research Functions to Librarians or OtherResearchers Based in Developing Countries, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 3.23: Libraries that Have Outsourced Research Functions to Librarians or OtherResearchers Based in Developing Countries, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 3.24: Libraries That Have Outsourced Research Functions to Librarians orOther Researchers Based in Developing Countries, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 4.1: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Annual Library Budget (in $); Table 4.2: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Annual Library Budget, BrokenOut by U.S./Non (in $); Table 4.3: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Annual Library Budget, BrokenOut by Revenue Range (in $); Table 4.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Annual Library Budget, BrokenOut by Type of Industry (in $); Table 4.5: Percentage of Libraries that Include the Costs of Benefits and the Cost ofOffice Space in Their Overall Budget; Table 4.6: Percentage of Libraries that Include the Costs of Benefits and the Cost ofOffice Space in Their Overall Budget, Broken Out by U.S./NonCorporate; Table 4.7: Percentage of Libraries that Include the Costs of Benefits and the Cost ofOffice Space in Their Overall Budget, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 4.8: Percentage of Libraries that Include the Costs of Benefits and the Cost ofOffice Space in Their Overall Budget, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 4.9: Trend of the Library’s Budget in 2008; Table 4.10: Trend of the Library’s Budget in 2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 4.11: Trend of the Library’s Budget in 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range41; Table 4.12: Trend of the Library’s Budget in 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry41; Table 4.13: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage Change in theLibrary’s Budget in 2008; Table 4.14: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage Change in theLibrary’s Budget in 2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 4.15: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage Change in theLibrary’s Budget in 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 4.16: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage Change in theLibrary’s Budget in 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 4.17: Projected Change in the Library’s Annual Budget in 2009; Table 4.18: Projected Change in the Library’s Annual Budget in 2009, Broken Out byU.S./Non; Table 4.19: Projected Change in the Library’s Annual Budget in 2009, Broken Out byRevenue Range; Table 4.20: Projected Change in the Library’s Annual Budget in 2009, Broken Out byType of Industry; Table 4.21: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Percentage Change inthe Annual Budget in 2009; Table 4.22: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Percentage Change inthe Annual Budget in 2009, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 4.23: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Percentage Change inthe Annual Budget in 2009, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 4.24: Approximate Percentage of the Organization's Electronic InformationBudget that is Controlled or Managed by the Library; Table 4.25: Approximate Percentage of the Organization’s Electronic InformationBudget that is Controlled or Managed by the Library, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 4.26: Approximate Percentage of the Organization’s Electronic InformationBudget that is Controlled or Managed by the Library, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 4.27: Approximate Percentage of the Organization’s Electronic InformationBudget that is Controlled or Managed by the Library, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.1: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Total Library Spending onContent/Materials in 2008 (in $); Table 5.2: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Total Library Spending onContent/Materials in 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 5.3: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Total Library Spending onContent/Materials in 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry (in $); Table 5.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Content/Materials in 2009 (in $)Corporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition7; Table 5.5: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Content/Materials in 2009, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $); Table 5.6: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Content/Materials in 2009, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 5.7: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Total LibrarySpending on Content/Materials in 2009, Broken Out by Type of Industry (in $); Table 5.8: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on OnlineDatabases in 2008 (in $); Table 5.9: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on OnlineDatabases in 2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $); Table 5.10: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on OnlineDatabases in 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 5.11: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on OnlineDatabases in 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry (in $); Table 5.12: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Library Spending onOnline Databases in 2009 (in $); Table 5.13: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Library Spending onOnline Databases in 2009, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $); Table 5.14: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Print Resources; Table 5.15: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Print Resources, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.16: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Print Resources, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.17: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Print Resources, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.18: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Electronic Resources; Table 5.19: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Electronic Resources, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.20: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Electronic Resources, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.21: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Content BudgetAccounted for by Electronic Resources, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.22: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Staff Time (in Hours)Spent Reviewing Contract Terms from Vendors for Content Licenses in the Last Year; Table 5.23: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Staff Time (in Hours)Spent Reviewing Contract Terms from Vendors for Content Licenses in the Last Year,Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.24: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Staff Time (in Hours)Spent Reviewing Contract Terms from Vendors for Content Licenses in the Last Year,Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.25: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Staff Time (in Hours)Spent Reviewing Contract Terms from Vendors for Content Licenses in the Last Year,Broken Out by Type of IndustryCorporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition8; Table 5.26: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours of Professional LegalAssistance that the Library Required for Contract Review or Disputes in the Last Year53; Table 5.27: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours of Professional LegalAssistance that the Library Required for Contract Review or Disputes in the Last Year,Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.28: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours of Professional LegalAssistance that the Library Required for Contract Review or Disputes in the Last Year,Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.29: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours of Professional LegalAssistance that the Library Required for Contract Review or Disputes in the Last Year,Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.30: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Been Threatened by a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action for Contract Abrogation, Non-Payment or AnyOther Reason; Table 5.31: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Been Threatened by a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action for Contract Abrogation, Non-Payment or AnyOther Reason, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.32: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Been Threatened by a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action for Contract Abrogation, Non-Payment or AnyOther Reason, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.33: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Been Threatened by a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action for Contract Abrogation, Non-Payment or AnyOther Reason, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.34: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Threatened a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action Over Nonperformance, Other ContractAbrogation, or for Any Other Reason; Table 5.35: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Threatened a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action Over Nonperformance, Other ContractAbrogation, or for Any Other Reason, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.36: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Threatened a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action Over Nonperformance, Other ContractAbrogation, or for Any Other Reason, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.37: Percentage of Libraries that Have Ever Threatened a Publisher orInformation Vendor with Legal Action Over Nonperformance, Other ContractAbrogation, or for Any Other Reason, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.38: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Electronic ContentLicensing Contracts that Libraries Sign that Require that Financial Terms be Kept Secret; Table 5.39: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Electronic ContentLicensing Contracts that Libraries Sign that Require that Financial Terms be Kept Secret,Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.40: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Electronic ContentLicensing Contracts that Libraries Sign that Require that Financial Terms be Kept Secret,Broken Out by Revenue RangeCorporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition9; Table 5.41: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of Electronic ContentLicensing Contracts that Libraries Sign that Require that Financial Terms be Kept Secret,Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.42: Description of the Awareness of Librarians of the Financial Terms ofContracts of Peer Institutions with Information Providers; Table 5.43: Description of the Awareness of Librarians of the Financial Terms ofContracts of Peer Institutions with Information Providers, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.44: Description of the Awareness of Librarians of the Financial Terms ofContracts of Peer Institutions with Information Providers, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.45: Description of the Awareness of Librarians of the Financial Terms ofContracts of Peer Institutions with Information Providers, Broken Out by Type ofIndustry; Table 5.46: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of the Library'sContent Licensing Contracts that Come Up for Renewal in the Next Year that the LibraryExpects to Renew; Table 5.47: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of the Library’sContent Licensing Contracts that Come Up for Renewal in the Next Year that the LibraryExpects to Renew, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.48: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of the Library’sContent Licensing Contracts that Come Up for Renewal in the Next Year that the LibraryExpects to Renew, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.49: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Percentage of the Library’sContent Licensing Contracts that Come Up for Renewal in the Next Year that the LibraryExpects to Renew, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 5.50: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Databases that theLibrary Tested on a Free Trial Basis in the Last Year; Table 5.51: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Databases that theLibrary Tested on a Free Trial Basis in the Last Year, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 5.52: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Databases that theLibrary Tested on a Free Trial Basis in the Last Year, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 5.53: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Databases that theLibrary Tested on a Free Trial Basis in the Last Year, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 6.1: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours Spent Each WeekReading Blogs or Listservs; Table 6.2: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours Spent Each WeekReading Blogs or Listservs, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 6.3: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours Spent Each WeekReading Blogs or Listservs, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 6.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Hours Spent Each WeekReading Blogs or Listservs, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 6.5: Percentage of Libraries Involved in Developing the Organization'sStrategy in Using Social Networking Sites; Table 6.6: Percentage of Libraries Involved in Developing the Organization’sStrategy in Using Social Networking Sites, Broken Out by U.S./NonCorporate; Table 6.7: Percentage of Libraries Involved in Developing the Organization’sStrategy in Using Social Networking Sites, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 6.8: Percentage of Libraries Involved in Developing the Organization’sStrategy in Using Social Networking Sites, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 7.1: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Print with NoElectronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific andOther Scholarly and Professional Journals; Table 7.2: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Print With NoElectronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific andOther Scholarly and Professional Journals, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 7.3: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Print With NoElectronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific andOther Scholarly and Professional Journals, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 7.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Print With NoElectronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific andOther Scholarly and Professional Journals, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 7.5: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Electronic OnlySubscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals; Table 7.6: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Electronic OnlySubscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 7.7: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Electronic OnlySubscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 7.8: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Electronic OnlySubscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 7.9: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Combined Printand Electronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientificand Other Scholarly and Professional Journals; Table 7.10: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Combined Printand Electronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientificand Other Scholarly and Professional Journals, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 7.11: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Combined Printand Electronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientificand Other Scholarly and Professional Journals, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 7.12: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Number of Paid Combined Printand Electronic Access Subscriptions that the Library Maintains to Business, Scientificand Other Scholarly and Professional Journals, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 7.13: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on Print andElectronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly and Professional Journalsin 2008 (in $); Table 7.14: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on Print andElectronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly and Professional Journalsin 2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $)Corporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition11; Table 7.15: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on Print andElectronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly and Professional Journalsin 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 7.16: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on Print andElectronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly and Professional Journalsin 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry (in $); Table 7.17: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Library Spending onPrint and Electronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals in 2009 (in $); Table 7.18: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Library Spending onPrint and Electronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals in 2009, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $); Table 7.19: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Library Spending onPrint and Electronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals in 2009, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 7.20: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Library Spending onPrint and Electronic Versions of Business, Scientific and Other Scholarly andProfessional Journals in 2009, Broken Out by Type of Industry (in $); Table 8.1: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on TraditionalPrint Books in 2008 (in $); Table 8.2: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on TraditionalPrint Books in 2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 8.3: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on TraditionalPrint Books in 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 8.4: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on TraditionalPrint Books in 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 8.5: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on E-books in2008 (in $); Table 8.6: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on E-books in2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non (in $); Table 8.7: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on E-books in2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range (in $); Table 8.8: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending on E-books in2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 8.9: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Percentage Change inSpending on E-books in the Next Year; Table 8.10: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Projected Percentage Change inSpending on E-books in the Next Year, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 8.11: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Print Format Directories in 2008 (in $); Table 8.12: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Print Format Directories in 2008, Broken Outby U.S./Non; Table 8.13: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Print Format Directories in 2008, Broken Outby Revenue Range Corporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition12; Table 8.14: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Print Format Directories in 2008, Broken Outby Type of Industry; Table 8.15: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Electronic, or Electronic Combined With PrintFormat Directories in 2008 (in $); Table 8.16: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Electronic, or Electronic Combined With PrintFormat Directories in 2008, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 8.17: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Electronic, or Electronic Combined With PrintFormat Directories in 2008, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 8.18: Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum Library Spending onSubscriptions or Purchases of Exclusively Electronic, or Electronic Combined With PrintFormat Directories in 2008, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 9.1: Trend in the Number of Reference Questions Posed to Librarians byPatrons in the Past Two Years; Table 9.2: Trend in the Number of Reference Questions Posed to Librarians byPatrons in the Past Two Years, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 9.3: Trend in the Number of Reference Questions Posed to Librarians byPatrons in the Past Two Years, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 9.4: Trend in the Number of Reference Questions Posed to Librarians byPatrons in the Past Two Years, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 9.5: Trend in the Amount of Library Staff Time Spent on Meeting PatronResearch Requests Over the Past Two Years; Table 9.6: Trend in the Amount of Library Staff Time Spent on Meeting PatronResearch Requests Over the Past Two Years, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 9.7: Trend in the Amount of Library Staff Time Spent on Meeting PatronResearch Requests Over the Past Two Years, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 9.8: Trend in the Amount of Library Staff Time Spent on Meeting PatronResearch Requests Over the Past Two Years, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 10.1: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of E-book Collections; Table 10.2: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of E-book Collections, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 10.3: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of E-book Collections, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 10.4: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of E-book Collections, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 10.5: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Directories; Table 10.6: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Directories, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 10.7: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Directories, Broken Out by Revenue RangeCorporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition13; Table 10.8: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Directories, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 10.9: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Databases; Table 10.10: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Databases, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 10.11: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Databases, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 10.12: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Databases, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 10.13: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Market Research Materials; Table 10.14: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Market Research Materials, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 10.15: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Market Research Materials, Broken Out by Revenue Range84; Table 10.16: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Selection of Market Research Materials, Broken Out by Type of Industry85; Table 10.17: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Operation of Knowledge Management Systems; Table 10.18: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Operation of Knowledge Management Systems, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 10.19: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Operation of Knowledge Management Systems, Broken Out by RevenueRange; Table 10.20: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Operation of Knowledge Management Systems, Broken Out by Type ofIndustry; Table 10.21: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Training of Patrons in Information Literacy; Table 10.22: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Training of Patrons in Information Literacy, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 10.23: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Training of Patrons in Information Literacy, Broken Out by RevenueRange 87; Table 10.24: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for the Training of Patrons in Information Literacy, Broken Out by Type ofIndustry; Table 10.25: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for Competitive Intelligence Research; Table 10.26: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for Competitive Intelligence Research, Broken Out by U.S./Non Corporate Library Benchmarks 2009 Edition; Table 10.27: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for Competitive Intelligence Research, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 10.28: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for Competitive Intelligence Research, Broken Out by Type of Industry; Table 10.29: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for General Strategic Planning; Table 10.30: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for General Strategic Planning, Broken Out by U.S./Non; Table 10.31: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for General Strategic Planning, Broken Out by Revenue Range; Table 10.32: Level of Library Staff Influence in Corporate/Organizational Decision-Making for General Strategic Planning, Broken Out by Type of Industry

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