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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Report: A New Preprint:The Academic Library Impact on Student Persistence

Authors: Mark Emmons, Frances C. Wilkinson
Accepted: March 4, 2010
Anticipated Publication Date: January 2011
From the Abstract:
What impact does the academic library have on student persistence? This study explores the relationship between traditional library input and output measures of staff, collections, use, and services with fall-to-fall retention and six-year graduation rates at Association of Research Libraries member libraries. When controlling for race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, a linear regression finds that a change in the ratio of library professional staff to students predicts a statistically significant positive relationship with both retention and graduation rates. (revised)
Source: ACRL Insider, C
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