{"id":154,"date":"2016-02-16T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2016\/02\/16\/college-students-prefer-reading-books-in-print\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:17","slug":"college-students-prefer-reading-books-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2016\/02\/16\/college-students-prefer-reading-books-in-print\/","title":{"rendered":"College students prefer reading books in print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lMz55dG6fuo\/VsOUwiA19ZI\/AAAAAAAAAJ4\/M9Fhzq77MEM\/s1600\/4603052529_5dc6265d6b_m.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lMz55dG6fuo\/VsOUwiA19ZI\/AAAAAAAAAJ4\/M9Fhzq77MEM\/s1600\/4603052529_5dc6265d6b_m.jpg\" \/><\/a>The LA Times has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-92-percent-college-students-prefer-paper-over-pixels-20160208-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on college students&#8217; preference for print books over electronic ones.&nbsp; The story reports findings from a four-year study of college students from 420 campuses originally reported in Naomi Baron&#8217;s <i>Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World<\/i>. The research shows that 92% of students prefer print books to their electronic equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>Here at Langsdale, we collect a mix between print and electronic titles; we are part of a pilot e-book project with the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions library consortium and we subscribe to a number of reference materials online.&nbsp; But we take studies like these seriously, and we consider student preferences in our collection decisions.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to hear your preferences for print or e-books and why you prefer one over the other &#8211; send in your comments!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times has an interesting article on college students&#8217; preference for print books over electronic ones.&nbsp; The story reports findings from a four-year study of college students from 420 campuses originally reported in Naomi Baron&#8217;s Words Onscreen: The Fate <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2016\/02\/16\/college-students-prefer-reading-books-in-print\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  College students prefer reading books in print<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}