The Audience
Your exhibit can become a valuable part of the meeting experience for more than 1,500 library leaders.
Attendees are a cross-section of decision makers:
- Director/associate/assistant director: 25%
- Reference librarian: 14%
- Health sciences librarian: 12%
- Liaison librarian: 10%
- Clinical librarian: 3%
- Reference librarian: 7%
- Educational services: 3%
- Other librarian/information specialist: 23% (includes access services, catalog librarian, collection development, information services, technical services, web services)
32% of attendees find a new vendor to do business with as a result of the teim they spend in the exhibits.
79% of attendees have a role in purchasing products exhibited at the annual meeting.
73% of attendees do not attend any other national meeting for the library marketplace.
Attendees work in several environments:
- Academic medical centers/medical schools: 51%
- Hospitals: 15%
- Colleges/universities:15%
- VA medical center/VA Department/Naval/Army/other military/other government agency: 5%
- Other: 14% (includes nursing/allied health, consumer/public health, medical or health sciences association)
Attendees are searching for a wide range of products and services:
- Database services: 64%
- Clinical tools and databases: 50%
- Publications: 43%
- E-books: 40%
- Systematic review software: 40%
- Citation management software: 36%
- Apps: 31%
- Subscription services: 29%
- Patient education resources: 20%
- Public health resources: 20%
- Integrated information systems: 17%
- Health organizations: 15%
- Computer hardware and software: 14%
- Data-retrieval systems: 14%
- Video (film, DVD, and streaming): 8%
- 3D printers: 7%
- Library furniture: 7%
- Digitization equipment: 3%
- Printing solutions and management: 3%
- AV equipment: 2%
- Photocopying equipment: 2%
- Security systems: 2%