Thursday, August 9, 2012

Survey is now closed

I closed down my survey on digital collections in libraries earlier this week - huge thanks to everyone who participated. The survey was completed by 175 respondents, mostly from the digital libraries world, but I've been pleased to see that 13% of completions were by people who'd never even used a digital collection offered by a library. This is great, because I'm equally interested in the views of those inside and outside of the library - I feel that it's in the meeting of the two where the future of libraries could lie.

So thanks again - I would have liked to have kept it up longer, until the end of the month, but there is only one of me analysing the data and I need to get on with it at this point! I've completed six interviews so far for the second and final phase of my research, receiving comments on the survey results and thoughts on the future of digital collections in libraries. In these interviews I'm talking to digital library professionals and those who I consider to be authorities on digital content in the culture sector, but who are not currently associated with libraries directly. Hopefully all of this should make for an interesting mix of data providing a few insights, it certainly looks promising.


2 comments:

  1. Good luck with the analysis Matt - let me know if you have questions. I've been doing some survey analysis recently so let me know if you have any questions. I can't guarantee I'll be able to answer them though =). XO

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    1. Good to hear from you and thanks! I may well take you up on that - I've already cited one of your company's reports in my thesis.

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