ACQNET: Collection Development Survey for Canadian Libraries

Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 11:26:42 -0400
From: "Moya K. Mason" moya_at_highermind.org
Subject: Collection Development Survey for Canadian Public Libraries

I am sending this request on behalf of Dr. Juris Dilevko.

This message is intended to reach the person who is responsible for
collection development at each public library in Canada. If you are not
that person, please pass this message along to the person who is
responsible for collection development of multi-lingual collections at
your library.

Hello, my name is Juris Dilevko, and I am a Professor at the Faculty of
Information Studies, University of Toronto. I am writing to ask your
help in finding out about the state of multi-lingual collections in public
libraries in Canada. This is a nation-wide survey of all public libraries of
all
sizes, so your participation is important to this project.

We really do need your help in order to make this a truly national
survey. In addition, we are only a few dozen answers short of the magic
number needed to make this a valid survey. Could I therefore ask you
to please read the instructions below and go to the web site?

All that you would have to do is go to a web page and answer 10
Categories of questions. Almost all of these questions can be answered
using drop-down menus and clickable multiple-choice answers. The
survey should only take you about 45 minutes to complete.

Of course, all your answers will be confidential and anonymous, and the
survey doesn't even ask for your name or for the name of your library. I
hope that I can count on you to participate in this important survey.

Here is the web site address of the survey:

http://www.moyak.com/researcher/coll_dev/index.html

Just click on this link now and visit the site and look at the type of
questions that are being asked. Then bookmark it, and when you have 45
minutes or so to spare, please fill out the survey questions and press the
SUBMIT button at the end of  the survey. If you could do this sometime
within the next 2 weeks, I would appreciate it very much. If you have any
other questions regarding this survey, please feel free to write me at:
dilevko_at_fis.utoronto.ca

Very Sincerely,

Juris Dilevko
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto