Ithaka has released Faculty Survey 2009:Strategic Insights for Librarians, Publishers, and Societies, with these three key findings:

• Scholarly Workflows and the Evolving Role of the Academic Library:  Basic scholarly information use practices have shifted rapidly in recent years and, as a result, the academic library is increasingly being disintermediated from the discovery process, risking irrelevance in one if its core areas.
• The Format Transition for Scholarly Works:  Faculty members’ growing comfort in relying exclusively on digital versions of scholarly materials opens new opportunities for libraries, new business models for publishers, and new challenges for preservation.
• Scholarly Communications:  Despite several years of sustained efforts by publishers, scholarly societies, libraries, faculty members, and others to reform various aspects of the scholarly communications system, a fundamentally conservative set of faculty attitudes continues to impede systematic change.

Press and blogosphere cpverage:

• Chronicle of Higher Education, Scholars Increasingly Embrace Some, but Not All, Digital Media
• Inside Higher Ed, Eroding Library Role?

(Hat Tip: Jim Hart.)