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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:47:09 EDT
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- From: Diane Kovacs <DKOVACS@KENTVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Survey of E-conference Users: Summary Results
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- Dear Colleagues,
-
- As I promised here are preliminary summary results from our
- survey of e-conference users. We estimate that we sent surveys
- to 10,000 subscribers (that's an estimate based on the actual
- subscriber numbers plus a guess at how many people were reading
- from newservers) We had 576 usable responses. 72 were blank or
- unreadable. Because of this low response rate we would appreciate
- if you could send an e-mail message to dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu
- or dkovacs@kentvm describing *why you didn't or were unable to
- respond* We are guessing that many simply weren't sure how to
- respond and others are simply sick of surveys ;).
-
- Summary of Preliminary Results:
- Q1. E-conference that survey was first received on:
- Top 5: PACS-L 9.9%
- CWIS-L 7.5%
- GOVDOC-L 6.9%
- LIBREF-L 5.6%
- CNIDIR-L 5.4%
- 2. Do E-mail conferences enhance other sources of professional information
- for you? (Yes or No)
- Yes 96.9%
- No 2.1%
- blank 1.0%
-
- 3. Please comment on which sources of professional information have been
- enhanced by your participation on e-mail conferences? (type Yes or No at
- asterisk after each source)
-
- Professional Journals
- Yes 74.8%
- Professional Conferences
- Yes 84.7%
- Telephone Conversation
- Yes 73.3%
- Postal Mail
- Yes 65.5%
-
- 4. Do E-mail conferences replace other sources of professional information
- for you? (Yes or No)
- Yes 38.4%
- No 60.8%
- blank .9%
-
- 5 Please comment on which sources of professional information have been
- replaced by participation on e-mail conferences? (type Yes or No at the
- asterisk after each source)
-
- Professional Journals
- Yes 14.1%
- Professional Conferences
- Yes 13.4%
- Telephone Conversation
- Yes 34.5%
- Postal Mail
- Yes 38.2%
-
-
- 6. To which Library and Information Science e-mail conferences do you
- subscribe?
-
- Summary data for this is not yet available.
-
- 7. Are you a Librarian (possessing a Masters Degree in Library Science or
- filling a position which requires Master's level knowledge or skill) or
- Library Paraprofessional? (If No please skip to question 14.)
-
- Yes 78.8%
-
- 8. In what kind of library do you work? (chose one of the categories below
- and type it in beside the '*')
-
- 50.8% University Library (Graduate level school),
- 7.8% College Library(4 year)
- .9% College Library(2 year)
- .9% Public Library
- 1.6% Corporate for Profit Library
- 1.2% Private non-Profit Library
- 3.8% Government/Public Agency
- Other (please state)
- 1 each: Australian Univ.,Canadian Univ.,Israli Univ., College?
- Corporation(not library), Corporation (library related), Publisher,
- Research Laboratory.
- .7% Consultants
- 1.4% GSLIS
- 1.0% Law Libraries
- 1.9% Library Organizations
- 3.3% Medical Libraries
-
- 9. If you work in a Public Library, is it located in a city of:
- (type the letter of your selection next to the asterisk below)
-
- 5 public libraries responded. 2 from cities over 1 million, 2 from
- cities from 100,000-1 million and 1 from a city between 50,000 and
- 100,000
-
- 10. Not available.
-
- 11. What is your position? e.g. title, subject specialty, duties.
- Top 5: 1. 14.4% Library Administrators (Dean, Director, Head of more
- than one Dept.)
- 2. 11.5% Reference Librarians and 11.5% Systems Librarians
- 3. 9.0% Catalogers
- 4. 3.3% Government Documents
- 5. 3.1% Electronic Reference (Reference Libs with responsibility
- primarily for computer resources, small systems).
-
- 12. If you are not specifically a reference librarian, do you have Reference
- Desk responsibilities?
-
- not available
-
- 13. Do you ever use information from E-mail conferences to assist patrons
- with information needs? (Yes or No, please give example if possible)
-
- not available
-
- 14. What interests do you have in the E-mail conference that you received
- this survey on?
- not available
-
- 15. How much time do you personally spend each week on Bitnet/Internet
- (E-mail conference, personal e-mail or other activity)
-
- 3.5% said ALOT or TOO MUCH
- The range is from 1 hour per week to 50 hours per week
-
- Diane K. Kovacs
- Jeannie Dixon
- Kara Robinson
- contact at: dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu or dkovacs@kentvm
-