The CSUN Faculty Survey of Library Book and Audiovisual Collections was an online survey posted on the Library’s home page from November 30, 2006 through January 30, 2007. Email announcements of the availability of the survey were sent to various campus listservs for further distribution, including those subscribed to by deans, associate deans, chairs, and their secretaries; librarians, members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee, and the campus assessment liaisons. Recipients of the email were asked to forward the announcement to their faculty. Eighty-two surveys were returned. See Appendix 1 for the survey
Demographics
The majority of the respondents (38.3%) were tenured, followed by probationary (29.6%), and lecturers (28.4%). Compared to 2006 campus data on full-time (42.1%) and part-time faculty (57.9%) , a much higher percentage of full-time faculty (probationary and tenured) took the survey than part-time faculty (lecturers). Faculty from departments within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences were the largest group of respondents (27.9%), followed by Science and Mathematics (15.8%), Health and Human Development (13.5%), Business and Economics (12.2%), Humanities (11%), Arts, Media and Communication (9.7%), Education (7.2%), and Engineering and Computer Science (2.4%).