e ref forms

[I. Pour-El]

As promised, here is a summary of responses to my electronic reference usage
survey.

Library	    usage	# students	service start date
uic     range 1-2/day	24,000		< 2 years
	-0/week

usf	~ 20/mo		29,000		< 2 years

csun	15-20/mo	20,000		fall 1994

ucsb	38, fall qtr 95 19,000		Sept. 1994

Lehigh	27, Mar. 1996	 6,300		1986

med.yale 15/mo w/restricted -		~ 1 yr
	5/day unlimited access		no longer offered

med.unc	35, Mar. 1996	    -		homepage fall 1995
	4-8/mo				before homepage

utexas	3/day		 50,000		Mid Feb. 1996

Buffalo	20-25/mo	 26,000		1993

lsu	12/mo		   ?		  ?

Thanks for all the numbers and the other interesting comments.

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I. Pour-El						pourel at iastate.edu
Reference and Instructional Services Librarian		515-294-1004
152 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011