In the age of mobile communications what is the fate of the fixed workstation in one of the world's most information intensive environments – the North American academic library? This new report from Primary Research Group tries to answer this and other questions about how libraries view their fixed workstations. This study helps its readers to answer questions such as: How many fixed workstations are academic libraries maintaining? Has this number increased or decreased in recent years? What about plans for the future?Which personal computer brands are most favoured by academic librarians and how much control do they have over which they end up using in the library? How satisfied are they in general with the overall degree of control that they have over fixed workstation policy? To what extent is policy over these workstations shared with college or university IT departments or other units of college administration? What have been recent and planned changes in the applications offered through the library's workstations?