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Wednesday, April 19, 1995
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Libraries find low response to user priority questionnaire
Kansan staff writer
1. What libraries on campus do you use?
2. Which library do you use most often?
Not interested in responding to these questions?
3. What use(s) do you make of the libraries?
The survey consists of 65 multiple-choice and four short answer questions.
Craig said the survey was important for determining student priorities. The libraries' budget is $12 million, and the staff wants to know how some of that money should be spent. Decisions need to
You might be one of the 2,000 students who was sent a nine-page survey with questions about the eight University libraries on campus. Only about 12 percent have responded so far.
"We are very excited about the survey and disappointed about the low response," said Susan Craig, chairwoman of the committee that created the survey.
"I'm just really baffled.Ijust don't have an answer for why we haven't had a better response."
Carlie Towns principal analyst for the Office of Institutional Research and Planning
be made on whether to allocate money for electronic resources, longer hours or improved facilities.
"We would like help from the students," she said. "We're trying to give them a voice and hear what they're priorities might be."
The committee began work on
the survey in December and has spent about $4,000 in materials and postage on it. Craig said a mail-in survey was better than offering questionnaires at the library because the committee wanted opinions from those who don't often use the libraries.
"It's something we really planned to use as a planning tool," she said. "It's questionable whether we can use it with that low of a response. It certainly would not have the validity of a better response."
But the survey has not yet died, she said. An additional survey is being sent to those students who did not originally respond.
Carrie Towns, principal analyst for the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, helped prepare the survey. She would like to see a response of at least 30 percent.
"I'm just really baffled," she said. "I just don't have an answer for why we haven't had a better response. We need to boost the return rate as high as possible. It's just like getting out to vote."
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