ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 138 /C&RL News ■ February 2003 A n n V i Ie s F a s t F a c t s Freshmen satisfaction w ith libraries A new survey o f first-year college students developed by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA and the Policy Center on the First Year o f College at Brevard College contains at least two questions directly related to libraries. When the nearly 25,000 students completing the survey during spring 2002 were asked about their satisfaction with various campus services and facilities, 81 percent responded that they were “satis­ fied” or “very satisfied” with “library facilities and services.” When asked to “assess how much they have changed in several areas since entering college,” 49.5 percent indicated that their “library research skills’’ were “stronger” or “much stronger.” Linda J. Sax, et al. Findings from the 2002 Adm inistration o f Your First College Year (YFCY): National Aggregates. Higher Education Research Institute, University o f California, Los Angeles, December 2002. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/ heri/yfcy/yfcy_report_year3.pdf. Jan. 2,2003 State of preservation programs A major study in 2001 funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services “to assess the state o f preservation programs in American academic libraries” finds that “preservation expenditures as a percentage o f the library’s total budget are below 3 percent for all institutional groups.” Anne R. Kenney and Deirdre C. Stam, The State o f Preservation Programs in American College and Research Libraries: Building a Common Understanding a nd Action Agenda, Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Inform ation Resources, Dec. 2002. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub111/pub111 .pdf. Jan. 6,2003 Usage of electronic journals at Drexel A survey o f faculty and doctoral students at Drexel University was conducted during May and June 2002 to determine the effects o f the library’s “migration to a (mostly ) all- electronic journal collection” found that “while 42 percent o f faculty reading is from library-provided articles, faculty still rely heavily on readings from personal subscrip­ tions.” Doctoral students reported almost 76 percent o f the articles they read are pro­ vided by the library— 11.5 percent o f these from print subscriptions, 76.9 percent from electronic subscriptions, and 11.5 percent from interlibrary loan or document delivery. Donald W. King and Carol H. Montgomery, "A fte r M igration to an Electronic Journal Collection: Impact on Faculty and Doctoral Students," D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 12 (Dec. 2002). http://w ww.dlib.org/dlib/decem ber02/king/ 12king.html. Jan. 6 , 2003 Library and inform ation science education programs According to the 23rd annual statistical report on library and information (LIS) educa­ tion, published by the Association for Library and Information Science Education (AUSE), total enrollment in the 56 ALA-accredited master’s degree programs increased from 21,040 in fall 2000 to 22,883 in fall 2001, an increase o f 8.8 percent. Total enrollment in degree programs (bachelor’s, ALA-accredited master’s in library science, master’s in information science, other master’s, post-master’s, and doctoral) increased 12.8 percent from 17,759 to 20,033- Only 4.7 percent o f graduates from both ALA-accredited master’s in library science and doctoral degree programs were Black. Evelyn H. Daniel and Jerry D. Saye, eds., Library a nd Inform ation Science Statistical Report, 2002, Association fo r Library and Inform ation Science Education. http://www.ils.unc.edu/ALISE/2001/Contents.htm. Jan. 6 , 2003 Ban unsolicited e-mail The results o f an online Harris Poll conducted between November 22 and December 2, 2002, finds that the percentage o f those online who are very annoyed by “spamming or getting unsolicited e-mail from people who do not know you” has increased from 49 percent to 80 percent in the past two and a half years, and 74 percent “favor making mass spamming illegal.” Humphrey Taylor, "Large M ajority o f Those O nline Wants Spamming Banned," Harris Po//#1, Jan. 3,2003. http:// www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=348. Jan. 6 , 2003 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.gseis.ucla.edu/ http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub111/pub111 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/king/ http://www.ils.unc.edu/ALISE/2001/Contents.htm http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=348 mailto:vilesea@conrad.appstate.edu