250
EXPECTED TECHNOLOGICAL INVESTMENT
Change in responsibilities 211
REFERENCE
100
COMMUNICATION + MANAGEMENT
73 respondents Same amount
+3
reference
education/outreach
+57
collection dev/maintenance
-2
+22
comm & mgmt
+10
procedures/operations
research
other
0
PROCEDURES FOR OPERATIONAL TASKS
RESEARCH
OTHER
72
50
108 101
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT + MAINTENANCE
161
EDUCATION + OUTREACH
196
Original
97
200
Reduced
150
Added
Not surprisingly, many of the respondents expect their institutions to increase their investments in technology over the next five years. The number of respondents that expect a stagnant investment (35% of respondents to this question, or 18% of the entire respondent pool) is significant. Having failed to include follow up questions to this topic, we cannot deduce any clear reason for this group’s forecast.
116 respondents
+149
More resources
-41
17 respondents Less resources
13