Apologies to all List members - I committed the cardinal sin of posting
to the List when I intended to send to an individual. As a new member
of the list I hope you'll forgive me. I promise to be more careful in
future...
Ian Mayfield
Associate University Librarian
(Electronic Resources)
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>>> David Pattern <d.c.pattern_at_HUD.AC.UK> 19/04/07 >>>
Hi Selden
I think that's a fair assumption. In the comments, I think there were
only a couple who identified themselves as not working in a library (one
was a member of academic staff, and the other works for a ILS vendor).
I did specifically want to target librarians and library staff, and the
link was posted:
1) on my blog (and a few other librar* bloggers kindly added links on
their blogs)
2) http://library20.ning.com
3) the Horizon-L and Ipac closed mailing lists (for Dynix and Horizon
customers)
4) the two major UK library mailing lists (LIS-PUB-LIBS and LIS-LINK)
I think the link was also posted to one of the Unicorn ILS mailing
lists and also one of the Ex Libris ILS mailing lists.
As I was only really looking to pull a few facts and figures together
for a presentation I gave yesterday at the UK Library & Information
Show, it was only meant to be a quick and informal survey, so I didn't
feel the need to start probing too deeply into job roles, etc. In fact,
the initial version of the survey didn't even ask the respondents to say
what kind of library or which ILS system they use.
Given the above, these certainly aren't scientifically rigerous
findings and results, but I do think they act as general indicators.
I'd certainly recommend taking a small pinch of salt with the results,
but it's still a worthwhile exercise to try and pinpoint the overall
trends.
A number of respondents said that the survey would be better posed to
our users (which I thoroughly agree with!), but the purpose was very
much to get a feel for what library staff felt (as they were the
audience for the presentation).
regards
Dave
________________________________
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of Selden
Deemer
Sent: Wed 4/18/2007 10:24 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] OPAC survey - initial findings
Dave,
Do you have demographics on the respondents? Would I be correct
to assume that the vast majority of respondents are librarians
or people who work in libraries, as opposed to people who use
libraries?
Selden Deemer, Library Systems Administrator
Emory University Libraries
Atlanta, Georgia
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