Making Surveys Work for Your Library
eBook - PDF

Making Surveys Work for Your Library

Guidance, Instructions, and Examples

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Making Surveys Work for Your Library

Guidance, Instructions, and Examples

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1. The Value of Surveys, and Why They’re Hard to Get Right
  8. Chapter 2. Planning a Library Survey
  9. Chapter 3. Survey Methods That Work for Libraries
  10. Chapter 4. Scopes of Experience
  11. Chapter 5. Writing Survey Questions
  12. Chapter 6. Survey Populations
  13. Chapter 7. Survey Distribution
  14. Chapter 8. Analysis of Results
  15. Chapter 9. Taking Action
  16. Appendix A. Sample Demographic Questions
  17. Appendix B. Sample Questions About Services
  18. Appendix C. Sample Questions About Spaces
  19. Appendix D. Sample Questions About Communication
  20. Appendix E. Sample Questions About Collections
  21. Appendix F. Sample Programming Questions
  22. Appendix G. Additional Resources
  23. References
  24. Index
  25. About the Authors