where students want to spend the night: a two-phase
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Where Students Want to Spend the Night: A Two-Phase Examination of Overnight
Study Spaces
Laura I. Spears, PhD.University of Florida
George A. Smathers Libraries
Association of Research LibrariesLibrary Assessment Conference
December 3-7, 2019, Houston, TX.
Facility Features & CapacityNewell Hall Library West
4 floors 5 student floors (1 admin)
365 seats 1600 seats
Learning commons orientation, with open floor space and collaborative spaces;No stacks, no public access computers, printing available, 2 group study rooms
Public access computers, video creation room, disability resource center, proctor-U studio, accessibility studio, video creation studio, group study rooms, quiet floor, graduate study floor
Open 24/7 except spring break, football games, homecoming weekend.
Open 24/7 except spring break and school holidays.
What are the traffic and occupancy levels of the Library West Newell Hall from 12 a.m. to 8 a.m.?
What are students’ preferred features of an overnight study space?
What features and services are visitors actually using from 12 a.m. to 8 a.m.?
Study Questions
Spring 2016
Fall 2017 Survey Says:
Library West, 66%
Newell Hall, 12%
No Preference
20%
No plan to use either,
2%
Frequency of Use
(n=5585)
11%
15%
6%
6%
3%
59%
5%
24%
18%
22%
6%
24%
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500
Once
A few times during the past 6 months
Often (about once a week)
Very Often (A few times a week)
Not Applicable (I was not at UF duringthe past 6 months)
Never (I was at UF, but never used theovernight hours)
Library West
Newell Hall
Reasons for not using
Library West164
764
426
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
I did not know thatLibrary West hadovernight hoursduring the past 6
months
I did not need to usethe overnight hours
Other (pleasedescribe)
Reasons for not using
Newell Hall485
999
1724
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2000
I did not know thatNewell Hall hadovernight hours
I did not need touse the overnight
hours
Other (pleasedescribe)
Why did you have difficulty finding space at Library West?(n=703)
Why did you have trouble finding space at Newell Hall? (n=1214)
Library West Self-reported Feature Use
Newell Hall Self-reported Feature Use
Capacity Utilization
Tuesday
2/27/2018
Newell
Hall (365)
Lib West
(1600) Total Occ NH Cap. LW Cap.
Wednesday
2/28/2018
Newell
Hall (365)
Lib West
(1600) Total Occ NH Cap. LW Cap.
Thursday
3/1/2018
Newell
Hall (365)
Lib West
(1600) Total Occ NH Cap. LW Cap.
12-1 100 404 504 138.1% 31.5% 12-1 125 450 575 157.5% 35.9% 12-1 85 406 491 134.5% 30.7%
1-2 68 344 412 112.9% 25.8% 1-2 120 344 464 127.1% 29.0% 1-2 75 309 384 105.2% 24.0%
2-3 55 200 255 69.9% 15.9% 2-3 90 201 291 79.7% 18.2% 2-3 51 232 283 77.5% 17.7%
3-4 35 119 154 42.2% 9.6% 3-4 53 113 166 45.5% 10.4% 3-4 45 135 180 49.3% 11.3%
4-5 20 78 98 26.8% 6.1% 4-5 31 86 117 32.1% 7.3% 4-5 23 83 106 29.0% 6.6%
5-6 19 49 68 18.6% 4.3% 5-6 25 72 97 26.6% 6.1% 5-6 19 68 87 23.8% 5.4%
6-7 9 46 55 15.1% 3.4% 6-7 21 84 105 28.8% 6.6% 6-7 16 63 79 21.6% 4.9%
7-8 20 88 108 29.6% 6.8% 7-8 18 115 133 36.4% 8.3% 7-8 20 84 104 28.5% 6.5%
Total 326 1328 Total 483 1465 Total 334 1380
NH Occ + LW Occ/Capacity of each
EX: 100+404=504/365
138.1% of Newell Hall capacity | 31.5% of Library West capacity
Median Occupancy Per Hour12-8 a.m.
1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00
Newell Hall Median OccupancyPer Hour
60 45 27 15 8 7 6 10
Library West Median OccupancyPer Hour
230 150 88 51 31 30 29 53
0
50
100
150
200
250
Library West Features Use
11256
5574
5192
2986
521
243
168
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000
Tables/countertops with multiple seatingwithout public access computers
(43.4%)*
Individual seating with public accesscomputers (21.5%)*
Individual seating without public accesscomputers (20.0%)
Group study rooms (11.5%)
Dining (2.0%)
Tables/countertops with multiple seatingwith public access computers (.09%)*
Other (restrooms, printers)(0.6%)
*Public access computers available in Library West only/Couches available in Newell Hall only
Newell Hall Features Use
4336
2121
255
256
155
80
0 2000 4000 6000
Tables/countertops with multipleseating without public access
computers (60.2%)*
Individual seating without publicaccess computers (29.4%)*
Couches (3.5%)*
Group study rooms (3.6%)
Other (restrooms, printer) (2.2%)
Dining (1.1%)
*Couches only available in Newell Hall/Public access computers available in Library West only
Median per hour use of study spaces with public access computers (Library West only)
45
29
16
11
7 7 7
12
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00
Observations of Quiet
Study Use
60.0%
40.0%
62.2%
37.8%
63.4%
36.6%
68.9%
31.1%
Quiet pairs
Talking pairs
Talking groups
Quiet groups
Library West Newell Hall
What makes it a library?
“I believe that the actual libraries should be the study spaces that have 24/7 hours, not Newell. It is usually too crowded and difficult to find a seat, and even when it is not, it does not have the same atmosphere as the actual libraries.”
-Respondent To The Fall 2017 Overnight Study Spaces Survey Loertscher, Koechlin & Zwaan. (2008). The New School Learning
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And this survey NEVER asked
about Marston Science Library
Questions? | Thank you!
Contact me:
Laura I. Spears, PhD.University of Florida
Researchers who contributed to these studies:
David Schwieder,PhDShaun Boren, PhD
Jerri-Ann BerrieMichael Uwe Dietz
Mohammed Gomaa