In October, I was lucky enough to attend the very first “Undergraduate Research Practices Workshop” hosted by CLIR and run by Nancy Fried Foster from the University of Rochester. One of our topics was “Asking Good Questions,” and during the discussion I offered up the process we use here at Columbia. I hope some of [...]
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Organizational Climate Survey
We’re currently developing an in-house organizational climate survey to solicit responses from our librarians, staff and students. I’m looking for examples of developed surveys and whether these surveys are linked to some management approach (e.g., Balanced Scorecard). Additionally, did you receive results that were useful in your library planning efforts? Any information on survey development [...]
Distance Education Student Surveys
This year UVic Libraries are looking into conducting a survey of all our distance ed students, as we noticed that their responses to LibQUAL+ indicated that they had concerns that were not being evaluated by that survey. I am just wondering if anyone has implemented a survey of distance ed students and if so is [...]
Reference Transactions Survey
The librarians listed at the end of this post are working on a book chapter about capturing reference transactions and could use your help. They have developed a survey asking how other libraries are capturing their reference transactions and would like you to take it! They will be using the data compiled from the survey [...]
Organizational Culture Surveys
We’ve had a request from a reader for information on organizational culture surveys. Anyone done one recently? Are there instruments or tools you found useful? What kind of results did you get and were they useful? Are you willing to share your survey as an example? For those of you planning to attend the Library [...]
SPEC Survey on Library Assessment
In case you missed it between EBLIP, making plans for Northumbria in August and the rest of the summer, there is a SPEC Survey out now on Library Assessment. The closing date for the survey is June 4th. Lynda White and I would extremely appreciate as much participation as possible since we’re presenting the preliminary [...]
The LibQUAL+® Update: Vol. 4, No. 5, March 28, 2007
By mashana davis on March 27, 2007 in announcements, ARL, assessment initiatives, conferences, LibQUAL+®, questionnaires, service evaluation, statistics, workshops
Dear LibQUAL+® Participants: The current issue of the LibQUAL+® Update is now available online at http://www.libqual.org/documents/admin/libqualupdate4.5_final.pdf. Highlights in this issue include: * LibQUAL+® Results Notebooks * Post Hoc, Evaluation, & Representativeness Questionnaires * Contribute to the 2007 LibQUAL+® Share Fair * LibQUAL+® on the Move * New Team Members * And much more! Please feel [...]