Overnight Study Spaces: Where Students Prefer to Study

A research presentation by Laura I. Spears, PhD, explores students' preferences for overnight study spaces, focusing on the traffic, occupancy levels, and features utilized at Newell Hall and Library West at the University of Florida. The study reveals insights into students' frequency and reasons for using or not using these facilities.

• Study Spaces
• Student Preferences
• University of Florida
• Overnight Study
• Library Research

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1. 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 Libraries Library Assessment Conference December 3-7, 2019, Houston, TX.

2. Facility Features & Capacity Newell Hall Library West 4 floors 5 student floors (1 admin) 365 seats 1600 seats Study Questions 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 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.? Open 24/7 except spring break, football games, homecoming weekend. Open 24/7 except spring break and school holidays.

3. Spring 2016

4. Library West, 66% No plan to use either, 2% Fall 2017 Survey Says: No Preference 20% Newell Hall, 12%

5. Never (I was at UF, but never used the overnight hours) 24% 59% Not Applicable (I was not at UF during the past 6 months) 6% 3% 22% Very Often (A few times a week) Frequency of Use (n=5585) 6% 18% Often (about once a week) 6% 24% A few times during the past 6 months 15% 5% Once 11% Library West 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 Newell Hall

6. 900 764 800 700 600 500 Reasons for not using Library West 426 400 300 164 200 100 0 I did not know that Library West had overnight hours during the past 6 months I did not need to use the overnight hours Other (please describe)

7. 2000 1724 1800 1600 1400 1200 Reasons for not using Newell Hall 999 1000 800 600 485 400 200 0 I did not know that Newell Hall had overnight hours I did not need to use the overnight hours Other (please describe)

8. Why did you have difficulty finding space at Library West? (n=703)

9. Why did you have trouble finding space at Newell Hall? (n=1214)

10. Library West Self-reported Feature Use

11. Newell Hall Self-reported Feature Use

12. Tuesday 2/27/2018 12-1 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-8 Total Newell Hall (365) 100 68 55 35 20 19 9 20 326 Lib West (1600) Total Occ NH Cap. LW Cap. 404 504 344 412 200 255 119 154 78 98 49 68 46 55 88 108 1328 Wednesday 2/28/2018 12-1 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-8 Total Newell Hall (365) 125 120 90 53 31 25 21 18 483 Lib West (1600) 450 344 201 113 86 72 84 115 1465 Thursday 3/1/2018 12-1 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-8 Total Newell Hall (365) 85 75 51 45 23 19 16 20 334 Lib West (1600) 406 309 232 135 83 68 63 84 1380 Total Occ NH Cap. LW Cap. 575 157.5% 464 127.1% 291 79.7% 166 45.5% 117 32.1% 97 26.6% 105 28.8% 133 36.4% Total Occ NH Cap. LW Cap. 491 134.5% 384 105.2% 283 77.5% 180 49.3% 106 29.0% 87 23.8% 79 21.6% 104 28.5% 138.1% 112.9% 69.9% 42.2% 26.8% 18.6% 15.1% 29.6% 31.5% 25.8% 15.9% 9.6% 6.1% 4.3% 3.4% 6.8% 35.9% 29.0% 18.2% 10.4% 7.3% 6.1% 6.6% 8.3% 30.7% 24.0% 17.7% 11.3% 6.6% 5.4% 4.9% 6.5% Capacity Utilization NH Occ + LW Occ/Capacity of each EX: 100+404=504/365 138.1% of Newell Hall capacity | 31.5% of Library West capacity

13. 250 200 150 Median Occupancy Per Hour 12-8 a.m. 100 50 0 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 Newell Hall Median Occupancy Per Hour Library West Median Occupancy Per Hour 60 45 27 15 8 7 6 10 230 150 88 51 31 30 29 53

14. 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 Tables/countertops with multiple seating without public access computers (43.4%)* 11256 Individual seating with public access computers (21.5%)* 5574 Individual seating without public access computers (20.0%) 5192 Library West Features Use Group study rooms (11.5%) 2986 Dining (2.0%) 521 Tables/countertops with multiple seating with public access computers (.09%)* 243 Other (restrooms, printers)(0.6%) 168 *Public access computers available in Library West only/Couches available in Newell Hall only

15. 0 2000 4000 6000 Tables/countertops with multiple seating without public access computers (60.2%)* 4336 Individual seating without public access computers (29.4%)* 2121 Newell Hall Features Use Couches (3.5%)* 255 Group study rooms (3.6%) 256 Other (restrooms, printer) (2.2%) 155 Dining (1.1%) 80 *Couches only available in Newell Hall/Public access computers available in Library West only

16. 50 45 45 40 35 29 30 25 20 16 15 12 11 10 7 7 7 5 0 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 Median per hour use of study spaces with public access computers (Library West only)

17. 60.0% Quiet pairs 63.4% 40.0% Talking pairs Observations of Quiet Study Use 36.6% 62.2% Talking groups 68.9% 37.8% Quiet groups 31.1% Library West Newell Hall

18. 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 Commons Where Learners Win. Spring,TX: Hi Willow.

19. 1398 Comments 1398 Comments 1707 Codes 1707 Codes And this survey NEVER asked about Marston Science Library

20. Questions? | Thank you! Contact me: Laura I. Spears, PhD. University of Florida laura.spears@ufl.edu Researchers who contributed to these studies: David Schwieder,PhD Shaun Boren, PhD Jerri-Ann Berrie Michael Uwe Dietz Mohammed Gomaa