This study identifies students who have experience working in academic, public and special libraries, with detailed data sets available for experience in each type of library. The report helps its readers to find students with library experience, and the type of library that they worked in .
Data in this 42-page report is based on interviews conducted in early 2022 with 1,289 full time, enrolled college students at four year colleges of all levels (special focus, BA,MA, Doctoral, Research) in the United States.
Just a few of the findings from this report are:
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Students who grew up abroad were far more likely than those who grew up in the USA to have ever worked in an academic library.
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African American students were nearly twice as likely as Caucasian students to have ever worked in a public library.
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1.55% of students in the sample have ever worked in a corporate, legal or other special library.
Data in the report is broken out by more than 20 personal and institutional variables, so, for example, readers can get specific data on the percentage or English majors vs History majors who have ever worked in an academic library of the percentage of men vs women who have worked in a public library.
Breakouts include age, year of school standing, major or intended major, religion, gender, sexual orientation, income level, SAT/ACT scores, college grades, regional origins, race/ethnicity, level of school tuition, size of school of institution attended and many other variables. This is a critical resource for policy makers in academic libraries as well as a unique data source for social scientists and other studying higher education.