The Survey of American College Students: Use of Academic Library Workstations

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.

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 June 2009