Faculty Awareness and Attitudes Toward Academic Library Reference: A Measure of Communication

Abstract

A survey of the faculties at six colleges was undertaken to measure the degree to which the libraries of those institutions were communicating with the faculty concerning the availability of various references services. The results demonstrated that the average faculty member was aware of barely half the services actually available. V ariables of academic rank, length of teaching, and amount of library and reference use were some of the factors shown to affect faculty awareness of Ubrary service.