Beating the Odds with the Insider's Scoop

Tips and Tricks from the Library Secrets! Librarian

Jennifer KelleyCollege of DuPage Library

LOEX of the WestJune 5, 2008

College of DuPage andCollege of DuPage Library

• Glen Ellyn, IL (25 miles west of Chicago)• fourth largest single-campus, two-year college in

US• 28,361 students • 33% aged 18-20

• 41,882 active library cards• 26,130 students have active library cards • avg. daily door counts 2,500-3,000+ during

semester• 963 instruction sessions to 19,000 students

2007-2008 Institutional Profile

Student Portrait, Fall 2007

How connected are our students?

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Not very

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