DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38876
title: Ithaka S+R Library Director Survey, United States, 2022
title: Archival Version

description: The Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2022 examines strategy and leadership issues from the perspective of library deans and directors at not-for-profit four-year academic institutions across the United States. Respondents were asked about their strategies related to services, collections, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), budget, and personnel, their leadership roles within and outside of the library, and their vision for the role of the library. Demographic variables include respondents' number of years in their position, respondents' age, race/ethnicity, and Carnegie Classification.
description: Since 2010, Ithaka S+R has conducted the Library Survey on a triennial basis with the overarching goal of tracking the perspectives, priorities, and leadership strategies of library deans and directors at four-year academic institutions. This study is part of a larger international research portfolio, which includes the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey and surveys of leaders and staff in the museum, cultural heritage, and archives fields. Collectively, these survey-based research projects shed light on differences in perspectives across multiple professions and communities, as well as common priorities and challenges that bridge them.
Consistent with previous iterations of this survey, this cycle focused on the core role and functions of the library, the relationship of its leader to other senior administrators, and library strategy, budgeting, staffing, and collections. This cycle also included topics that speak to emerging trends in the field, such as research data management services. The research team also introduced new questions to further probe how library leaders prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives, as well as their perspectives on the open access landscape through.
description: The data are not weighted.
description: Response Rates: Of the 1,466 directors who received email invitations to participate in the survey on October 12, 2022, the research team received 612 completed responses, for an overall response rate of 42 percent. The response rates vary by Carnegie Classification.
description: Consistent with previous cycles, for the 2022 survey Ithaka S+R generated a contact list of library deans and directors at four-year colleges and universities across the United States. To qualify an institution had to have one of the following classifications within the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education database:
Baccalaureate Colleges: Baccalaureate/Associate's Colleges: Associate's Dominant
Baccalaureate Colleges: Mixed Baccalaureate/Associate's
Baccalaureate Colleges: Diverse Fields
Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts and Sciences Focus
Master's Colleges and Universities: Small Programs
Master's Colleges and Universities: Medium Programs
Master's Colleges and Universities: Larger Programs
Doctoral/Professional Universities
Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity
Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Based on these criteria, the final generated list consists of 1,508 institutions. Where possible, a single individual from each institution was chosen as the point of contact for the survey. A small number of institutions have two or more co-directors. In these cases the research team asked that they work together to complete the survey, and they restricted the ability to submit more than one response from any given institution. Of the 1,513 individuals the research team attempted to contact, 47 email invitations bounced or failed, bringing the total sample of deans and directors to 1,466.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Ithaka S+R Library Director Survey, United States, 2022
description: Library deans and directors at not-for-profit four-year academic institutions across the United States. Smallest Geographic Unit: Country
description: web-based surveyFor additional information, please see the full report from the Ithaka S+R website.