--- title: "Primary Sources & Today's Libraries: Credo Survey" description: "Primary Sources & Today's Libraries: Credo Survey" image: https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/old-letters-436501_640-e1476283381311.jpg --- ![credoreference](https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Reference/Reference%20Logos/Credo%20Logos/Credo_Landingpage_header-Blog.jpg "credoreference")   - [Credo in Action](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/credo-in-action) - [First Year Experience](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/first-year-experience) - [Il Learning Community](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/information-literacy) - [Affordable Learning Solutions](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/affordable-learning-solutions) # Primary Sources & Today's Libraries: Credo Survey Posted by [Credo](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/credoreference) on 10/12/16 10:53 AM [Trends in Reference](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/trends-in-reference), [Uncategorized](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/uncategorized) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![old-letters-436501_640](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/old-letters-436501_640-e1476283381311.jpg?width=350&height=233&name=old-letters-436501_640-e1476283381311.jpg)](http://credoreference.libguides.com/primary_sources)We recently surveyed our newsletter recipients on the topic of primary sources and their importance to libraries. Primary sources were relevant to three-quarters of our survey respondents. They reported that users are mostly looking for government documents (85%) and speeches/interviews (71%), and are primarily using these materials in the process of writing research papers. Librarians mostly recommend online subscription databases to find primary sources (78%); interestingly, more librarians recommended print materials (64%) than a search on the open web (50%). To help find primary sources in Credo, 85% of respondents wanted to see a filter for these documents in the search results. While we take that back to the lab, check out our **[Primary Sources LibGuide](http://credoreference.libguides.com/primary_sources)**, which highlights some of the many government documents, speeches, videos, and images available in the Core subscriptions: Are there questions you’d like to hear your peers’ thoughts on? [Suggest a poll](mailto:support@credoreference.com)! ### Subscribe to Email Updates ## Follow us and like us! ### [![Follow by Email](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_email.png?width=44&name=flat_email.png "Follow by Email")](http://www.specificfeeds.com/widgets/emailSubscribeEncFeed/VzVRak5yeThnRTgrY1lseUtIRlZmQVI1WkNDbGdldkxBWndST1RBYk9oMEcwS1lraFNVZHVKTkc3cDNndjBQN1p5KzdUTDVXL3VtdGRyUVdRb0tRVEFDZlR4djI5YUxPQUZ0aXU1WnR0Wi9XMmh2bkhvYWtzK2h5aXUvdzhXV0R8dHJCdklmdEIwM2dzaytjY1B1UTVIak9RYzIrZjI2a1NhTW1CbWE0a0hNMD0=/OA==/) [![Facebook](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_facebook.png?width=44&name=flat_facebook.png "Facebook")](https://www.facebook.com/credoreference) [![Twitter](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_twitter.png?width=44&name=flat_twitter.png "Twitter")](https://twitter.com/credoreference) [![LinkedIn](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_linkedin.png?width=44&name=flat_linkedin.png "LinkedIn")](https://www.linkedin.com/company/826388)  [Tweets by credoreference](https://twitter.com/credoreference) ### Recent Posts