ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 766 / C&RL News ■ N o v e m b e r 2002 →Fr a s A n n t V i Ie s Facts E-journal access A survey o f public service librarians completed recently by the ACRL/STS Subject and Bibliographic Access to Science Materials Committee found that using “database-driven, dynamically generated web lists” to provide access to e-journals received “the highest percentage o f ‘preferred’ votes among its users.” More than 68% o f the institutions represented in the survey provided access using separate catalog records for e-joun als, but only 19.5% o f the respondents from those institutions preferred this method. More than 73% provided access using a single catalog record for both the electronic and print versions o f journals, a method preferred by only 36.4% o f the respondents from those institutions. Although only 38.3% o f the institutions used database-driven applications to provide access, this method was preferred by 47.8% o f the respondents from those institutions. Subject and B ib lio gra p hic Access t o Science M aterials C om m ittee, ACRL Science and Technology Section, "Per­ ceived Successes and Failures o f Science and Technology E-Journal Access: A Comparative Study," Issues in Science a n d Technology Librarianship No. 35 (Summer 2002). h ttp://w w w .istl.org/02-sum m er/article1.htm l. Sept. 29, 2002 In fo rm a tio n access on campus Preliminary results o f a major survey o f college and university students and faculty completed by Outsell, Inc. for die Digital Library Federation show “that graduate stu­ dents are most likely to pursue information while in physical libraries, undergraduates in their residences, and faculty, by a large margin, in their offices.” Sixty-four percent o f all respondents reported “that their current information needs for research are available through their own library’s Web site.” Daniel Greenstein and Leigh W atson Healy, "P rin t and Electronic In fo rm a tio n : Shedding New L igh t on Campus Use," EDUCAUSE Review 37 (Sept./Oct. 2002): 16-17 D ig ita l lib ra ry pro gram s According to a January 2001 survey completed by 21 academic libraries for a recently published study by die Digital Library Federation and the Council on Library and Infor­ mation Resources, “the principal costs for digital libraries, based on average 2000 cost, [were] commercial content (40%), equipment and infrastructure (23%), digital library personnel (18%), and content creation (7%).” Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne E. Thorin, The D ig ita l Library: A Biography, W ashington, DC: Digital Library Federa­ tio n and Council on Library and In fo rm a tio n Resources, Sept. 2002. http://w w w .clir.o rg /p u bs/re p orts/p ub 1 09 / pub109.pdf. Sept. 29,2002 E-book readers Seventy-three percent of the respondents to an online survey o f e-book readers, con­ ducted in spring 2002 by KnowBetter.com and EbookWeb.org, rated themselves as proficient with computers, 93% read e-books for leisure, 41.6% used them for refer­ ence, 29% for work, and 29% for education. "Results o f th e Spring 2002 Survey o f Ebook Readers," KnowBetter.com, Aug. 8,2002. h ttp://w w w .know better.com / ebook/surveys/2002spring_results.asp#. Oct. 6,2002 Ann Viles is coordinator o f reference and instruction a t Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina‚ e-mail: vilesea@conrad.appstate.edu → → → http://www.istl.org/02-summer/article1.html http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub109/ http://www.knowbetter.com/ mailto:vilesea@conrad.appstate.edu