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2009 Library Market Size, Share & Forecast Report

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Authors: Ned May, Director & Lead Analyst; Harry Henry, Vice President, Data Solutions

This report sizes and segments the content spending controlled by the $24.8 billion global library market and details the trends affecting spending. It includes the results of Outsell’s recently completed survey of 591 respondents across government, public, academic, school, and corporate libraries. This report covers not just traditional physical libraries, but also non-traditional, centralized digital information centers and other kinds of centralized content management functions. This analysis provides useful total available market (TAM) information for publishers and information providers who sell into this marketplace. It includes:

- Forecasts and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for library content buying through 2011;
- Coverage of the demand market for library content across the global regions of North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Africa/Middle East;
- Data on content spending by library type and by information type;
- Analysis of key drivers and trends in the library market;
- Essential actions for content vendors looking to maintain or increase their share of the shrinking library market.


Pub Date: September 28, 2009
Type: Market Report
Segments: E & T LTR SAS STM
Keywords: Education (corporate), Education (Higher Ed), Education (vocational), Education (K-12), Market Analysis, Forecast
Pages: 24
Format: PDF Application_pdf

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Table of Contents

  • Why This Topic?
  • Methodology
  • Library Market Size and Growth
    1. Number of Libraries by Type and Geography
    2. Spending by Library Type, by Region
  • Content Spending Growth, by Library Type
    1. Projected Changes in Library Budgets and Staffing
  • Library Content Spending by Information Type: Selected Library Types
    1. Market Segment Spending Attributable to Libraries
  • Key Drivers and Library Market Trends
  • Essential Actions
  • Related Research

    • Tables & Figures

  • Figure 1. Global Content Spending by Library Type, 2008
  • Figure 2. Content Spending CAGR by Library Type, 2008-2011
  • Figure 3. Yearly Growth in Content Spending by Library Type, 2008-2011
  • Table 1. Estimated Number of Libraries by Type and Geography, 2008
  • Figure 4. Global Library Content Spending by Region, 2008
  • Figure 5. Library Content Spending by Library Type and Geography, 2008
  • Table 2. Content Spending by Library Type and Geography, 2008
  • Figure 6. Projected Global Library Content Spending, 2008-2011
  • Table 3. Content Spending Projections by Library Type, 2008-2011
  • Figure 7. Survey Respondents’ Projected Change in Budgets and FTE’s for 2010
  • Figure 8. Content Spending by Information Type: Corporate, Government, Academic, and Other Special Libraries, 2008
  • Figure 9. Global Library Content Spending by Information Type for Select Verticals, 2008
  • Table 4. Percentage of Content Budgets Spent on Various Information Types: Government, Academic, Corporate, and Other Special Libraries, 2008
  • Figure 10. Percentage of Market Segment Spending Attributable to Libraries, 2008