This study utilized the Undergraduate Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale (UMLAS) to survey students at two universities in the Southern United States during the 2012-2013 academic year, in order to determine how they felt about the Information Search Process (ISP), their re-search skills, and their attitude towards the library employees and library facilities. It was de-termined that, despite the availability of a broad collection of online library resources at two Universities in the South, a slim majority of students indicated they still prefer to use the library in person. Although most students reported feeling comfortable using a computer, they were less comfortable using a computer at home to access the library online than one might expect. In fact, many students appear to still struggle with basic research skills, such as locating e-books online and locating full text articles, as well as with technical competencies such as downloading articles to an e-reader. Many students also indicated they were not able to find the things they wanted at the library. These same students felt library staff were friendly and helpful but, at the same time, many appeared to believe library employees were too busy to help them and indicated a reluctance to use telephone reference and Interlibrary Loan (ILL) assistance. In addition, alt-hough most students indicated that they visit the library for scholastic pursuits, very few re-sponded that they were visiting the library in order specifically to get help from a librarian. The similarity in results from the two institutions suggests this data may imply a trend for academic libraries nationwide requiring further investigation.

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A student produced and edited newspaper is necessarily a grassroots production, with an allvolunteer staff. Student produced newspapers can be a potential source of primary, historical information about student life on a college campus, providing useful insight and data about students' perspectives and experiences while attending college. However a central problem of the print copies and printed or microfilmed back-files of these types of collections is the limited means for discovering data, and devising the best means in which to describe the contents. Saint Leo University is a Catholic University in the Southern United States, originally founded by Benedictine monks in 1889. It became a two year college in 1965, and the student newspaper printed its first column in 1967. The 1960s and 1970s were a time of social change in America and in the Catholic Church, which did not leave this community of faith unmoved nor unchanged. The role which the newspaper played during this time was unique, providing a voice for the students, faculty, and other community members, which assisted in informing its audience of events and issues while nurturing a faith-based community. The recently digitized collection of this newspaper preserves and makes available an exceptional collection of voices and perspectives from an earlier time in this institution's history. This paper will discuss the digitized collection, its search features, and as it's potential as a historical research tool in an institutional oral history project, as well as the intersection of information and religious perspectives made available for examination. campus buildings and other student protests on campus (Columbia Spectator, 2011). Research on newspapers of this era has heretofore been tedious, difficult and painstakingly slow; most campus newspapers have never been indexed; and the majority of the archival materials have been available only in print, and only in person. However, initiatives to digitize the treasure trove of primary source information have been gaining momentum, with some projects discussed at national and state conferences from 2003 onward; grants, institutional projects, and grassroots efforts are making a small portion of these repositories digitally available for research. Some of the more visible projects and organizations in this field are Google, Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), but there are other companies and non-profits, as well as individual institutional efforts underway as well. For example, since 2009, ArcaSearch has digitized 1,100 newspapers (some of which are college newspapers) "to capture and present a community's history in an easy and accessible web-based digital format" (ArcaSearch, 2012), while Lyrasis has provided grants for newspaper digitization projects. Costs for a digitization project can vary widely, depending on the number of pages that need to be scanned, the comprehensiveness of the indexing, and how much of the project is kept in ...