[CANMEDLIB] Primary Research Group has published: the Survey of American College Students 2022, Impact of COVID on Use of the Academic Library, ISBN 979-8-88517-018-5

[Jose Mavarez]

Primary Research Group has published: the Survey of American College
Students 2022, Impact of COVID on Use of the Academic Library, ISBN
979-8-88517-018-5

Half of the current generation of college students have never experienced a
normally functioning academic library and other students have only
experienced a pre-COVID academic library for a year or two. How has this
impacted the current and future circumstances of academic libraries? This
study examines how the library-using behavior of college students has been
impacted by the pandemic and the implications for the future.

The study helps its readers to answer questions such as:  which students
will likely go back to the library post pandemic? Which missed the
traditional library experience the most? Which the least? What do students
think of the COVID-control measures taken by academic libraries? What kinds
of library services have students learned to tap into online, or forego
entirely, during the pandemic? Have they or will they return to use of
these services? How safe do students feel in the library? Do they feel
unsafe in the library due to fears of COVID or any other reason? If so, to
what extent? How should the inevitable changes impact the strategies of
academic libraries going forward?

Just a few of this 81-page report’s key finding are that:

• Nearly 17% of respondents said that they missed the library so much that
they planned to visit it more post than pre-pandemic.

• 61% of respondents said that they always felt safe in the academic
library.

• Students raised abroad were less critical of the library’s COVID control
efforts than students raised in the USA

• African American students are also much more likely than others to feel
unsafe in the academic library.

Data in the report is broken out by more than 20 personal and institutional
variables, so, for example, readers can get specific data on how COVID
impacts the library use plans 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.

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=690
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