OCLC Report

I was just notified this morning that OCLC has released a report called Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005). The report summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking habits and preferences in Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, the UK, and the U.S.

I haven’t had a chance to sit down and go through it in detail, but there looks to be some pretty good stuff in the report. According to the blurb on the webpage, the findings indicate:

that information consumers view libraries as places to borrow print books, but they are unaware of the rich electronic resources they can access through libraries. Even though information consumers make limited use of these resources, they continue to trust libraries as reliable sources of information

The complete report can be found at http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm

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