Stacks, Serials, Search Engines, and Students' Success: First-Year Undergraduate Students' Library Use, Academic Achievement, and Retention

• Published in: The Journal of academic librarianship Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 84 - 91
• Main Authors: Soria, Krista M., Fransen, Jan, Nackerud, Shane
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.01.2014; Elsevier; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Academic libraries; College students; Communication. Information transfer; Exact sciences and technology; First-year college students; Grade Point Average; Information and communication sciences; Information science. Documentation; Information service management; Library and documentation centre management; Library and information science. General aspects; Library use; Retention; Sciences and techniques of general use; Student retention; Students; Success; Undergraduate Students; Use; User service management; Library use; First-year college students; Student retention; Grade point average; Serial; Periodical; Use; Search engine; Higher education library; Achievement; Student

Like other units within colleges and universities, academic libraries are subject to increasing internal and external pressures to demonstrate their contributions to institutional goals related to students' success. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between first-ye...