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30 The University of California Libraries revealed that over 6 percent were for specific data. As indicated in Table 6, users also ask for information on use of the card catalog, for recommendations on bibliographical resources, and for a wide variety of general and directional information. As far as the second and third categories of information--specific known items, and bodies of information--are concerned, academic library users are more likely to want the former, and by a factor of about two to one. Palmer's study at the University of Michigan General Library reported that 70 percent of the users were looking for known items, and a later study at the same library reported a figure of 71.7 percent known-item searches. 6 Palmer's study also indicated that faculty are slightly more likely to want known items than students, as indicated in Table 7. Nelson Associates did a major study in 1969 of the New York Public Library's Research Libraries, which are heavily patronized by academic users, and found much the same pattern. 7 For all academic users, the percentage of known-item searches was 63.3 percent versus 36.4 percent for subject searches. When faculty were distinguished from students, the percentage of known-item searches for faculty was higher, again as indicated in Table 7. An informal study of five libraries on the UC Berkeley campus produced similar results. As will be evident in later chapters, it is also instructive to note user preference for materials on the basis of the form of material and the language in which it is written. In the Nelson study, academic users had a decided preference for books and monographs over other forms, as indicated in Table 8. The Berkeley study showed a similar pattern, with 52.4 percent wanting books and 38.8 percent wanting journals. Language of publication has an even greater effect on usage. In Jain's study, almost 96 percent of the materials circulated were in English, 1.5 percent in French, 1.5 percent in German, and all others much less. 8 English-language publications account for more than 85 6 Summarized in James Kirkelas, "Catalog Use Studies and Their Implications," Advances in Librarianship, v. 3, Seminar Press, 1972, p. 205. 7 Nelson Associates, User Survey of the New York Public Library Research Libraries, 1969, pp. A-43, A-45. 8 K. Jain, "Sampling and Short-Period Usage in the Purdue Library," College and Research Libraries, v. 27, no. 3 (May 1966), p. 215.
II. The Function of the Library 31 Table 6 Inquiries at the Reference Department Yale University Library Percent of Inquiries by Type Type of Inquiry Percent of Inquiries Data 6.3 Card catalog 26.2 Bibliographic 16.4 General information 11.2 Library directions 19.4 Library procedures & instructions 7.8 Other 12.7 Source: Robert Balay and Christine Andrew, "Use of the Reference Service in a Large Academic Library," College and Research Libraries, v. 36, no. 1 (January 1975), p. 21.
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