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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:03:33 EDT
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- From: Todd Yeager <TMY@WVNVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Survey results
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- The following note contains a summary of the answers to the questions I
- asked recently about professional reference staffing. As of the
- time I began summarizing the results, 32 libraries had responded.
-
- Total number of hours library is open ranged from a minimum of 65 hours
- a week to a maximum of 102.
-
- Professional staffing ranged from a minimum of 44 hours a
- week to a max of 95 (!) a week. (The main library at WVU has a
- librarian at the desk 77 out of 98 service hours a week.)
-
- Average length of weekday shifts at the reference desk was 2.6.
-
- Average number of weekend days worked each semester is 3.8
-
- Average number of hours at the reference desk each week for
- individual librarians was 12.5.
-
- Thanks to everyone who took the time to respond to my questions.
-
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- Todd M. Yeager West Virginia University Libraries
- Coordinator, Interlibrary Loan Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
- Internet: tmy@wvnvm.wvnet.edu 304-293-3640
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