Primary Research Group Inc. has published the: Survey of American College
Students: Use of the Academic Library eBook Collection, ISBN 978-1-57440-512-5
The study presents data from a survey of 1,099 students at 4-year colleges and
universities in the USA about their use of the library eBook collection. The
90-page study gives detailed data on which students use the eBook collection,
how important the collection is to them, how they evaluate its ease of use,
and how do they assess the information literacy training that they have
received in its use. The report also gives data on the extent of use of
webinars, videos, classes, website instructions and other means for educating
students about the use of the academic library eBook collection.
Data in the report is presented in the aggregate and then broken out
separately for sixteen different variables including but not limited to:
college grades, gender, income level, year of college standing, SAT/ACT
scores, regional origin, age, sexual orientation, race & ethnicity, college
major and other personal variables, and by Carnegie class, enrollment size and
public/private status of the survey participants institutions of higher
education.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
• 48.13% of students sampled had never used their academic library eBook
collection
• The higher a student’s grades, the more likely they were to believe
that the library eBook collection was easy to use.
• Nearly 13% of students sampled had watched an online video on how to
use their academic library’s eBook collection.
• More than 65% of students studying Primary Research Group Inc. has
published the: Survey of American College Students: Use of the Academic
Library eBook Collection, ISBN 978-1-57440-512-5
the social sciences rated the library eBook collection as useful to them to
any degree, the highest among any subject category in the sample.
For further information view our general website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
Received on Thu May 03 2018 - 14:08:50 EDT