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Libraries are crucial in supporting and shaping scholarly communication across disciplines. Digital resources and Web technologies are changing information seeking and research behaviors, and these new activities impact how digital research libraries will need to evolve. A number of CIRSS projects emphasize the development and design of libraries and the role libraries play in the evolving scholarly communication landscape.
 Disciplinary Research Practices and Library Services in the Online Environment — A report commissions by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership to identify recent literature on changing scholarly research practices and how research libraries can best support researchers across disciplines.
Intermediary Models of Institutional Repository Development (IMIRD)— A pilot project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation exploring institutional repository development strategies at three research universities and the role of librarians in these initiatives.
ACRL Academic Trends and Statistics Survey— An annual survey on behalf of the Association of College and Research Libraries to collect information on library collections, expenditures and personnel and North American academic research libraries.
PLDS Statistical Report— An annual survey on behalf of the Public Library Association to collect information on income, expenditures, circulation, technology at North American public libraries.
User Satisfaction with Access to Government Information and Services at Public Libraries and Public Access Computing Centers— This IMLS-funded project explores how people find government information and to what extent libraries and public access computing centers support government information seeking behavior.
Past Projects
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RLG Programs of OCLC commissioned a report to identify recent literature on changing scholarly research practices and how research libraries can best support researchers across disciplines. Read more
The PLDS Statistical Report and the ACRL Academic Trends and Statistics Survey reports for 2008 are now complete.
Palmer, C. L., Teffeau, L. C., & Pirmann, C. M., (2009). Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the literature and implications for library service development. [Report] Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Palmer, C. L., Teffeau, L. C., & Newton, M. P (2008, August). Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development - Final Report. [Report] New York: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Estabrook, L., Witt, E., & Rainie, L., (2007). Information searches that
solve problems:
How people use the internet, libraries, and
government agencies when they need help. [Report] Washington: Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Public Library Association, (2008). Public Library Statistical Report 2008. Chicago: American Library Association.
Association of College and Research Libraries, (2008). 2007 Academic Library Trends and Statistics. Chicago: American Library Association.
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