I had this impression that it might be a scathing indictment of the present state of scholarly communication.  And wouldn’t that be delightfully amusing?  The thing that really struck me about the report is the way libraries are valued by classroom faculty and by struck, I mean it made me sad.

Apparently, classroom faculty primarily conceive of the library primarily as a buyer of resources.  Not as people that increase access to those resources, or selectors, or instructors, or any of those other things that librarians care about and work really hard to do.

The second most important thing we do?  Apparently, it’s to store physical items.

I just spent two semesters hammering out student learning objectives and doing an assessment.  This process was really difficult and wonderful, exposing all kinds of gaps and opportunities for improvement, and I don’t regret any of that time.  But I would prefer it to be appreciated by the larger college community.