Our findings indicate vendors are reporting statistics in an irregular manner with little standardization, making them difficult to use for selection and retention decisions. We look at trends in data reporting and suggest ways that vendors and librarians can work collaboratively to create more valuable usage statistics. The provision of laser printing may become an increasingly common but potentially costly change at libraries' public workstations. This article reports findings from a survey of student library users at Penn State Erie during the first semester after unlimited, free laser printing was made available. Students were surveyed on the amount and types of printing that they did, their attitudes and behaviors toward wasteful printing, and their willingness to pay for printing.
Findings reveal that students' printing was highly focused on their curricular needs.
While students strongly support free printing, they are also quite sensitive to the issue of wasteful printing. This study is aimed at examining the impact of and constraints to the use of CD-ROM databases in Nigerian academic libraries. The questionnaire was sent to ten academic libraries in Nigeria identified from a preliminary studies on their CD-ROM database collections and use. The results of the study revealed that high cost of subscriptions to CD-ROM databases was ranked first as the major constraint. Introduction of CD-ROM has led to an increase in the use of journal collections in the reference library and an increase in the status of libraries.