The report presents data from a survey of 400+ American college students about how they go about doing research in their college libraries. The 150+ page report gives extensive data on student use of major search engines, wikipedia, library databases, book collections and other library resources. The study also gives detailed information on how their professors advise them to use the library, and how comfortable they feel about their research skills and how helpful librarians have been in helping them in their research. Data is broken out by more than 16 criteria including gender, income level, type and size of college, mean SAT acceptance score of the college, and many other
variables. Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
+ Only about 47% of students are sure that they have ever been required to turn in a research paper exceeding 10 double spaced typed pages in length for any of their classes.
+ More than 86% of students say that they understand the concept of plagiarism “well” or “very well”.
+ 64% of students sampled say that they know how to contact a librarian online.
+ 55.2% of the students in the sample had not asked for help from a librarian within the past year.
+ Nearly 29% of students say that Google, Yahoo and other major search engine searches were the most important information source for their last research assignment.
+ More than 9% of information needed for research papers was sourced from Wikipedia or other wickis.
+ The higher the grade point average the less information for research papers was obtained from search engines such as Google or Yahoo.
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