ArticleAuthors: Christina Riehman-Murphy; Emily Mross (2019)
Reports of college students using the library for spiritual practices,
including prayer and meditation, consist mainly of anecdotal
observations, news stories, or press releases about the
creation of such spaces within academic libraries. Driven by
their own experiences with students using library spaces for
prayer, the authors examined how prevalent this was across
US academic institutions. Using a large-scale national survey,
this study found library professionals observe a wide range of
student prayer behavior in a variety of library spaces, regardless
of institutional or campus demographics. The results
provide academic libraries with evidence to support accommodating
s... 
