Research shows the highest achieving students attend schools with well-staffed and well-funded library media centers.- The average copyright year for health and medicine titles in school libraries is 1995. A student using these resources would not learn about mad cow disease outbreak in Britain (1996) or about the cloning of Dolly the sheep (1997).
- Academic librarians answer 56.1 million reference questions each year— almost 10 million more than attend college football games.
- College libraries receive just less than six cents of every dollar spent on higher education.
- If the cost of People magazine had risen as fast as the cost of academic library periodicals since 1990, it would cost about $182 for a one-year subscription.
For more facts about America’s libraries, visit: http://www.ala.org/offices/ola/quotablefacts/quotablefacts
Tags: July 2012
