ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 634 / C&RL News ■ September 2002 → F a A n n V i Ie s st Facts → Student use of library Web sites A Harris Interactive Web survey, commissioned by OCLC in December 2001 to study the Internet information habits o f U.S. college students, established baseline data for students’ “usage o f campus library websites.” O f the “seven-in-ten students [who] use the campus library website for at least some o f their assignments,” the most frequently used information resources on library Web sites w ere “Fulltext/Electronic journals” (67% ) followed by the “Library catalog” (57%), “Databases” (51%), and “Indexes to journal articles” (51%). Only 6 percent of the students surveyed reported any use of ask- a-librarian services. "OCLC W h ite Paper on th e In fo rm a tio n Habits o f College Students," OCLC O nline C o m p ute r Library Center, June 2002. h ttp ://w w w 2 .o c lc .o rg /o c lc /p d f/p rin to n d e m a n d /in fo rm a tio n h a b its .p d f. July 5, 2002. Digitization activities in academic libraries Thirty-four percent of academic libraries responding to a recent national survey by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) reported digitization activities during the past year. O f those, 38 percent w ere associated with cooperative digitization pro­ grams, and 21 percent include digital items in their online catalogs. Status o f Technology a n d D ig itiz a tio n in th e N a tion 's M useums a n d Libraries 2002 R eport, Institu te o f M useum and L ibrary Services, M ay 10, 2002. h ttp://w w w .im ls.g ov/R e p orts/Te chR ep orts/intro 02 .htm . June 29, 2002. → Kentuckiana on the Web The Kentuckiana Digital Library currently provides Web access to approximately 3,700 finding aids, 10,000 photos, 86 oral history transcripts, 120 e-texts, and 50 audio files. KYVL Fact and Stats: Kentuckiana D ig ita l Library, Kentucky V irtu a l Library, h ttp ://w w w .k y v l.o rg /h tm l/a b o u t/ stats/kentuckiana.shtm l. June 29, 2002. Five years of PubMed PubMed began offering free Internet access to MEDLINE in Ju n e 1997 and received approximately 2 million searches during its first month. Usage has increased to about 1.3 million searches daily, and the 2002 edition o f the List o fS erials Indexed fo r Online Users “contains 9,930 serial titles, including 4,498 titles currently indexed for MEDLINE.” NLM Technical B ulletin , May-June, 2002. h ttp ://w w w .n lm .n ih .g o v/p u b s/te ch b u ll/m j0 2 /m j0 2 _ te ch n o te .h tm l. July 7, 2002. → U.S. periodical prices The 2002 U.S. Periodical Price Index, sponsored by ALA's Association for Library Collec­ tions and Technical Services’ Library Materials Price Index Committee, reports the aver­ age price o f “a selected sam ple o f 3,919 periodical titles published in the United States .. . excluding the Russian Translations category, rose from $261.56 in 2001 to $282.31 ‚ which represents a 7.9% rate o f increase.” "Surveys Show Periodical, Serials Prices Rem aining Steady: 2002 Numbers Reveal Cost Increases Largely Un­ changed fro m Previous Years," Am e rica n Libraries 33 (M ay 2002): 75. → Math journal prices The American Mathematical Society’s annual survey shows subscription prices for math­ ematics journals increased an average o f 6 percent from 2000 to 2001. "J o u rn a l Price Survey (1 9 9 4 -2 0 0 2 )," A m e rica n M a th e m a tic a l Society, h ttp ://w w w .a m s .o rg /m e m b e rs h ip / jo urna l-su rve y.htm l. July 5, 2002. → Periodical prices in Great Britain Periodical prices in Great Britain increased an average o f 12.56% from 1999 to 2000. "2001 Library & In fo rm a tio n Statistics Tables fo r th e U n ited K in g d o m ," L ibrary and In fo rm a tio n Statistics U nit, L ou gh b orou gh University, http ://w w w .lbo ro .ac.u k/de pa rtm e n ts/d is/lisu /lis0 1/p ub 0 1.h tm l. July 7, 2002. A nn Viles is coordinator o f reference and instruction a t Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, e-mail: vilesea@conrad.appstate.edu → → http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/pdf/printondemand/informationhabits.pdf http://www.imls.gov/Reports/TechReports/intro02.htm http://www.kyvl.org/html/about/ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj02/mj02_technote.html http://www.ams.org/membership/ http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/lis01/pub01.html mailto:vilesea@conrad.appstate.edu