Libraries and Student Success (Priscilla S.)
Libraries have a huge impact on students' success. Academic Libraries especially have that impact because students see libraries as a valuable space for services, including nonacademic services. In fall 2018, the Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success surveyed 10,844 students across seven community colleges to assess the value of and demand for proposed services designed to address students’ expressed goals, challenges, and needs.
Some of the key pieces of information they got from these surveys to assist their students are:
- Student needs are academic needs.
- Students view college both as a means to an end and as having intrinsic value in and of itself.
- Not all students struggle equally or desire the same support services.
- The library, academic advising office, and tutoring or writing center are highly valued as service providers in addressing unmet needs.
- Students would highly value services to address both their curricular and non-curricular information needs.
- Student parents want more support with childcare.
- Students need greater access to technology.
Another research that was done by the Assessment in Action program was to also point out important points in how to enhance their library to assist student needs. Some important key pieces they got from this was:
- Students benefit from library instruction in their initial coursework.
- Library use increases student success.
- Collaborative academic programs and services involving the library enhance student learning.
- Information literacy instruction strengthens general education outcomes.
- Library research consultations boost student learning.
All these studies and surveys being done help libraries know what path to take their library in when it comes to every new academic year because there is always new technology and materials coming out which can change students' needs as well.
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