[Web4lib] Results from The Survey of American College Students: Use of Academic Library Wo

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Primary Research Group has published The Survey of American College  
Students: Use of Academic Library Workstations, ISBN # 1-57440-125-4.  The data in 
the report is  
based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college  
students in the  
United  States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria  including gender, grade 
point average, major field of study, income level of  students and type, 
size of college, and mean SAT  
acceptance score of colleges, among other variables. 
The study presents more than 170 tables of data describing how American  
college  
students use their library workstations, how long they wait for them, how  
they view their  
availability and whether they prefer Macs or PC’s.  The report also covers 
use of laptops  
in the college library, both students own and those provided by the  
college library.  Other  
issues covered include use of the library’s online catalog and out of  
library access to the  
library home page.  
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:  
†      More than 21% of  students sampled say that they almost always or 
often have to wait to get a  workstation in the library. Only 35.2% say that 
they never have to wait and  close to 44% say that they generally don’t have 
to often wait for a workstation  at their library.   
†      About a third of  students sampled don’t care whether or not they 
use a MAC or a PC in their  college library. 13.53% prefer to use MACS while 
52.63% prefer PC’s.   
†      A shade more than 71%  of the students in the sample have ever used 
their library’s online  catalog. 
†      Students who grew up in  major cities were much more likely than 
those who grew up in other locales to  use their own laptops in the college 
library. 
†      Close to 60% of  community college students said that they would use 
laptops occasionally or  often in the library if the library supplied them 
on loan. 
For further information view our website at _www.PrimaryResearch.com_ 
(http://www.PrimaryResearch.com) .
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