This report presents approximately 165 tables of data exploring how often full time college students in the United States go to their college library, what they do when they are there, and how they rate their library’s accessibility and comfort. The report provides specific data on how often students go to their college library, how they evaluate its hours of operation and accessibility, who meets with other students in the library, who goes to the library for research and study and how students view their own library-going habits compared to their peers.
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.
Available April 2009