PRG a publié les résultats d'une enquête intituée "The Survey of American College Students:  Who Goes to the College Library and Why".

Parmi ces résultats (via liste ERIL-L):

•    Business and economics students reported the highest rates of taking library instruction courses; 12.27% of them had take such a class within the past month

•    Students from families with annual incomes of greater than $150,000 were somewhat more likely to have used the library than others.

•    The higher a student’s grades the more likely was that student to have visited the library within the past month.

•    More than 69% of private college students visited the library in the past month while only 56.66% of public college students did so.

•    Approximately twice as many females (9.34%) as males (4.73%) report taking a library instruction class within the past year.

•    Close to 55% of the students in the sample have used a public computer workstation at their college library within the past month. 

•    Only 43.9% of students raised in families with annual incomes of greater than $150,000 have used a library workstation within the past month while 55.7% of students raised in families with incomes of less than $40,000 and 57.03% of students from families with incomes of between $40,000 and $75,000 have used a library workstation within the past month.

•    Close to 47% of students raised in major cities have held meetings with other students in the library within the past month; only 27.3% of students raised in suburbs have done so. 

•    8.71% of the students in the sample say that they virtually never go to the library and don’t really like being there.

(source: Primary Research Group / le document complet est payant)