13.53% prefer to use MACS while 52.63% prefer PC’s.Ī shade more than 71% of the students in the sample have ever used their library’s online catalog. Only 35.2% say that they never have to wait and close to 44% say that they generally don’t have to often wait for a workstation at their library.Ībout a third of students sampled don’t care whether or not they use a MAC or a PC in their college library. More than 21% of students sampled say that they almost always or often have to wait to get a workstation in the library. Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: Other issues covered include use of the library’s online catalog and out of library access to the library home page. The report also covers use of laptops in the college library, both students own and those provided by the college library. 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. 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. The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States.

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of American College Students: Use of Academic Library Workstations.

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