Library services for students from LSES backgrounds

Hagel, Pauline, Horn, Anne, Owen, Sue and Currie, Michael 2012, How can we help? The contribution of university libraries to student retention, Australian academic and research libraries, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 214-230. 

Horn, Anne, Maddox, Alexia, Hagel, Pauline, Currie, Michael and Owen, Sue 2013, Embedded library services : beyond chance encounters for students from low SES backgrounds, Australian academic & research libraries, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 235-250.

Academic libraries, like other university departments, are being asked to demonstrate their value to the institution. This study discusses the impact library usage has on the retention and academic success of first-time, first-year undergraduate students at a large, public research university. Usage statistics were gathered at the University of Minnesota during the Fall 2011 semester for thirteen library access points. Analysis of the data suggests first-time, first-year undergraduate students who use the library have a higher GPA for their first semester and higher retention from fall to spring than non-library users. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

(2013). . New Review of Academic Librarianship: Vol. 19, Academic Libraries and the Student Journey, pp. 101-124. doi: 10.1080/13614533.2013.800754