Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Big College Sports Do Affect Library Usage

On Sunday there was an article in the Education Life section of the New York Times titled How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life by Laura Pappano. She quotes from the following book:

Clotfelter, Charles T. Big-time Sports in American Universities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Print.

“During March Madness library patrons with universities with teams in the tournament viewed 6% fewer articles a day as long as their team was in contention.When a team won an upset or close game, article access fell 19 percent the day after the victory. Neither dip was made up later with increased downloads."

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