Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of American College
Students 2022: Use of the Academic Library eBook Collection, ISBN
979-8-88517-017-8.

This report looks at which students have received training in use of the
library eBook collection, how much they use it, and what they think of
their training and the collection itself. The study also looks at the
impact of the pandemic on college student use of the academic library eBook
collection. It helps its readers to answer questions such as: who is using
eBooks? Who has received or not received training in how to use the library
eBook collection? What do students think of the collection and the training
that they have received in its use? How has the pandemic impacted their use
of the library eBook collection?

 Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

• Students raised in the US West are much likelier than those raised in
other parts of the USA or abroad to be frequent users of the library eBook
collection.
• Students from private colleges were almost twice as likely as those from
public colleges to be frequent users of the library eBook collection.
• Students of Philosophy, History, English, Classics, and Languages more
frequently found the book collection very easy or relatively easy to access
and use, compared with students from other disciplines.
• Only approximately 26% of students with a full time job have received any
form of training in how to use the college eBook collection.
• Students majoring in journalism were the least likely to find the eBook
collection useful to them.
• Broken out by race or ethnicity, students of Asian ancestry were more
likely than those from other backgrounds to have become more familiar with
their library’s eBook collection over the course of the pandemic.
Data in the report is broken out by more than 20 personal and institutional
variables, so, for example, readers can get specific data on eBook use for
first year students vs. sophomores, juniors or seniors, or for students in
level 1 research universities vs. doctoral institutions, or for male vs.
female or vs. transgender students, or for business/economics majors vs
fine arts majors, etc., etc.

Breakouts include age, year of school standing, major or intended major,
religion, gender, sexual orientation, income level, SAT/ACT scores, college
grades, regional origins, race/ethnicity, level of school tuition, size of
school of institution attended and many other variables. This is a critical
resource for policy makers in academic libraries as well as a unique data
source for social scientists and other studying higher education.

For a table of contents, list of participating institutions, the
questionnaire and an excerpt visit our website at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=689