Survey of American College Students: Use of the Academic Library eBook Collection

The study presents data from a survey of 1099 students at 4-year colleges and universities in the USA about their use of the library eBook collection. The 90-page study gives detailed data on which students use the eBook collection, how important the collection is to them, how they evaluate its ease of use, and how do they assess the information literacy training that they have received in its use. The report also gives data on the extent of use of webinars, videos, classes, website instructions and other means for educating students about the use of the academic library eBook collection. 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.