Making surveys work for your library : guidance, instructions, and examples / Robin Miller and Kate Hinnant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Robin, author.

Hinnant, Kate, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 117 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Libraries Unlimited, 2018.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Instead of using expensive off-the-shelf surveys or relying on a poorly worded survey, read Making Surveys Work for Your Library and design your own that collect actionable data. Library listservs and websites are littered with examples of surveys that are too long, freighted with complex language, and generally poorly designed. The survey, however, is a widely used tool that has great potential if designed well. Libraries can implement surveys for a variety of purposes, including planning, program evaluation, collection development, and space design. Making Surveys Work for Your Library: Guidance, Instructions, and Examples offers librarians a contemporary and practical approach to creating surveys that answer authentic questions about library users. Miller and Hinnant have experience designing, deploying, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data from large-scale, web-based user surveys of library patrons as well as smaller survey instruments targeted to special populations. Here, they offer library professionals a guide to developing-and examples of-concise surveys that gather the data they need to make evidence-based decisions, define the scope of future research, and understand their patrons.

Contents:

Acknowledgmentsix Chapter 1. The Value of Surveys, and Why They're Hard to Get Right Chapter 2. Planning a Library Survey Chapter 3. Survey Methods That Work for Libraries Chapter 4. Scopes of Experience Chapter 5. Writing Survey Questions Chapter 6. Survey Populations Chapter 7. Survey Distribution Chapter 8. Analysis of Results Chapter 9. Taking Action Appendix A. Sample Demographic Questions Appendix B. Sample Questions About Services Appendix C. Sample Questions About Spaces Appendix D. Sample Questions About Communication Appendix E. Sample Questions About Collections Appendix F. Sample Programming Questions Appendix G. Additional Resources References Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400681707

9798216113799

9781440861086

1440861080

OCLC:

1051778224