What are your primary reasons for using the library?

• Email = 42%
• Word Processing = 19.7%
• Research = 48.2%
• Internet = 54.5%
• Assistance from library staff = 5.2%
• Quiet Study Space = 23.9%

How frequently do you physically visit one of the Gateway library locations (Covington Campus, Edgewood Campus, Boone Campus)?

• Once a week = 17%
• More than once a week = 49%
• Once a month = 13%
• Never = 21%

How frequently do you connect to library resources remotely (from home, work, etc.)?

• Once a week = 22%
• More than once a week = 26%
• Once a month = 18%
• Never = 34%

Have you ever been given an assignment that required using the library?

• Yes = 80.8%
• No = 19.2%

Have you ever utilized library resources at Thomas More College as a Gateway student?

• Yes = 12.2%
• No = 87.8%

Have you ever utilized library resources at Northern KY University as a Gateway student?

• Yes = 30.5%
• No = 69.5%

Have you ever used the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services that are available?

• Yes = 6.9%
• No = 93.1%

Have you ever asked for research assistance in the library?

• Yes = 27.5%
• No = 72.5%

Have you received research assistance in using the online library databases?

• Yes = 29.8%
• No = 70.2%

If you have asked for research assistance, to what extent do you agree that the librarian was approachable and willing to help?

• Strongly Agree = 42%
• Agree = 35%
• Disagree = 15%
• Strongly Disagree = 7%

Have you ever taken part in a library instruction session, provided by a Gateway librarian, as part of one of your courses?

• Yes = 40.4%
• No = 59.6%

If yes, how useful was this instruction session? (5 = Extremely Useful & 1 = Not Useful)

• 5 = 35%
• 4= 29%
• 3 = 17%
• 2 = 10%
• 1= 8%

When you have an information need (i.e. you have something you need to research) for your coursework, what is the first stepyou take to find the information you are seeking?

• Ask for research assistance in the library = 3.8%
• Search the internet (using Google, Yahoo, etc.) = 73.1%
• Search library databases = 6.4%
• Search library catalog = 2.6%
• Talk to your professor = 5.1%
• Talk to your friends or classmates = 3.8%
• Other = 5.1%

Please identify which KYVL databases, if any, you use most often.

• Academic Search Premier = 6.7%
• CINAHL = 1%
• Religion and Philosophy Collection = 3.8%
• Middle Search Plus = 1.9%
• PsycINFO = 6.7%
• Professional Development Collection = 2.9%
• Health Source:Nursing Academic Edition = 20%
• Sociological Collection = 0%
• Primary Search = 19%
• Newspaper Search = 5.7%
• Agricola = 0%
• Business Source Premier = 2.9%
• Master FILEPremier = 0%
• ERIC = 0%
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection = 3.8%
• MEDLINE = 21%
• MAS Ultra-School Edition = 1%
• Pre-CINAHL = 1%
• TOPICsearch = 1.9%
• Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia = 1%
• Clinical Pharmacology = 8.6%
• Regional Business News = 1.9%
• ESCO Animals = 1%
• Health Source-Consumer Edition = 8.6%
• Military & Government Collection = 1%
• Academic Search Elite = 2.9%
• Business Source Elite = 2.9%
• Bibliography of Native North Americans = 0%
• Book Collection Non-fiction = 3.8%
• Biography Collection Complete = 1%
• CINAHL = 1%
• Columbia Granger's Poetry Database - School Edition = 0%
• Communication & Mass Media Complete = 1%
• Computers & Applied Sciences Complete = 5.7%
• Library, Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts = 2.9%
• Literary Reference Center = 2.9%
• MLA International Bibliography = 10.5%
• MLA Directory of Periodicals = 4.8%
• Vocational and Career Collection = 3.8%

Please identify which InfoTRAC databases, if any, you use most often.

• Academic OneFile 1.9%
• Health Reference Center Academic = 24.8%
• Expanded Academic ASAP = 4.8%
• Health and Wellness Resource Center = 21%
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center = 7.6%

Please identidy which ProQuest databases, if any, you use most often.

• Alt-Press Watch = 0%
• Career and Technical Education = 9.5%
• National Newspaper Abstracts = 4.8%
• ProQuest Computing = 3.8%
• Proquest Nursing & Allied Health source = 18.1%
• Research Library = 21.9%

Please identify which library catalogs, if any, you use most often.

• KYVL Catalogs = 20%
• KCTCS College Catalogs = 36.2%
• Boone County Public Library = 16.2%
• Campbell County Public Library = 8.6%
• Kenton County Public Library = 28.6%
• Northern Kentucky University = 14.3%
• Thomas More College = 4.8%

I am generally satisfied with the library's electronic resources (online databases). (1 = Strongly Agree & 5 = Strongly Disagree)

• 38% = 1
• 37% = 2
• 21% = 3
• 3% = 4
• 1% = 5

Do you believe that the Gateway library meets your needs?

• Very well = 31.8%
• Well = 45.5%
• Adequately = 17%
• Not well = 5.7%

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