Most libraries use data in their educational efforts.
This SPEC Kit discusses successful, as well as unsuccessful, strategies used by research libraries to inform faculty about scholarly communication issues. It is not about getting through the next budget cycle, not about any specific cancellation project, though these loom large in the everyday lives of libraries. It is about making fundamental systemic changes in the scholarly communication process, a beleaguered process that belongs to the entire scholarly communication community. To solve the chronic problems, faculty must be actively involved. They must understand that the problems are their problems, which they must solve through their actions and their behavioral changes.