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Previous exposure to libraries, measured in terms of the existence of libraries in the grade and/or high schools of the respondents, and country of origin were the two variables that had the least statistically significant findings with the variables utilized in measuring patterns and difficulties in library use.","More studies should be done on foreign students and their use of libraries in the United States to provide better understanding of their patterns of library use, and their level of difficulty in using the library.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T19:18:30Z (GMT). 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Among other findings, the analysis of the general data revealed the following: the students would readily ask for assistance in times of need; large library collections were not new to the majority of them; the concept of open stacks was not as foreign to as many of them as one might have expected.","Comments from the respondents included basic questions on library operation and the behavior of American librarians towards foreign students.","Chi-square and Spearman/Kendall correlation tests were used in testing the various hypotheses. Language of instruction proved to have the strongest relationship with the variables used in measuring patterns and difficulty in library use. Coming after language was years spent on the campuses by the students and the total number of years they had spent in the U.S. as a whole. 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