Relationships between Students’ University Library Usage Patterns and Their Lifestyle Types

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  • 学生生活タイプごとに見る大学図書館利用パターン

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Purpose: As part of wider reforms in university education, university libraries are now expected to have greater involvement in the education of students. This study examines the relationship between university library usage patterns and the ways students live their daily lives; exploring links between student lifestyles, university library usage, and learning outcomes.Method: A questionnaire-based survey was conducted via the Internet. The survey subjects were undergraduate students (excluding correspondence students, foreign students, and students attending university after experience in the workplace, etc.) who were attending university in an urban area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Aichi, Osaka, Kyoto, and Hyogo prefectures). Macromill, Inc. was commissioned to distribute and collect the questionnaire form using monitors registered with the company. The target sample was 400 students. The questionnaire forms were distributed on July 19, 2016, and target numbers had been achieved by the next day, July 20. There were 412 valid responses.Results: Student lifestyles were classified according to how much time they spent performing various activities. Five student lifestyle types and two university library usage patterns were identified. Analysis of the relationship between student lifestyle types and library usage patterns indicated that each lifestyle type was related to a particular pattern of library usage, thus confirming our hypothesis. It was further found that students’ learning outcomes differed, even when their frequency of library usage remained the same.

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