Survey of American College Students: Use of the Academic Library Website

The report presents detailed data from a survey of 1,065 participants drawn from more than 80 US colleges and universities about whether, how and how often they use their academic library website. The study also presents data on how many students use library supplied databases from remote locations and presents detailed information on how students evaluate the training they have received in using the academic library website. The study also presents data on how easy students feel it is to find information through the college website. 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.