开展图书馆协会会员调查:挑战和有希望的主题

IF 0.4 Q4 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Mary Dunne
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目标——我们中的许多人都是代表我们专业利益的协会的成员。这些协会往往是关键,使我们能够提供证据为基础的实践,提供机会,如专业发展。我们在会员中投入资源,因此我们必须能够告知主管我们的需求、期望和满意度。因此,理事机构和委员会需要一种方法来获取这些意见并相应地规划战略。爱尔兰图书馆协会健康科学图书馆小组(HSLG)委员会希望使成员能够就小组发表意见,了解图书馆协会的哪些方面对爱尔兰图书馆员很重要,并了解加入和反对加入的原因。方法-调查是获取证据,为政策和实践提供信息的有效途径。虽然制作相对较快,但它们的设计和传播可能会带来挑战。HSLG委员会为会员和非会员(任何有资格加入我们图书馆协会的人)制定了一份在线调查问卷。我们主要使用多项选择、矩阵和上下文/人口统计问题,并使用跳过逻辑,使选择与受访者相关。我们的文献综述为问卷设计提供了指导,并提出了四个主题,我们用来制定选项和分析结果。结果-调查进行了两周,我们收到了49份符合条件的回复。对结果的分析和对过程的反思表明,我们将在调查表中使用的语言和传播方法方面作出改变。还有一些方面显示出良好的潜力,包括四个主题,用于了解对成员重要的内容:专业知识(专业发展)、社区(联系和参与)、专业(维持和加强)和支持(财务和组织支持)。总的来说,我们的调查提供了丰富的数据,满足了我们的目标。结论——任何团体的管理者都必须做出基于证据的决定,而精心策划的调查可以支持这一点。我们的文章概述了我们的问卷调查和流程中不起作用的元素,以及那些显示出希望的元素。我们希望所吸取的经验教训将有助于任何计划进行调查的人,特别是希望确定其成员和其他有资格参加的人的意见的协会。通过一些修改,我们的问卷可以为今后的研究提供一个模板。
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Developing a Library Association Membership Survey: Challenges and Promising Themes
Objective – Many of us involved in the library and information sector are members of associations that represent the interests of our profession. These associations are often key to enabling us to provide evidence based practice by offering opportunities such as professional development. We invest resources in membership so we must be able to inform those in charge about our needs, expectations, and level of satisfaction. Governing bodies and committees, therefore, need a method to capture these views and plan strategy accordingly. The committee of the Health Sciences Libraries Group (HSLG) of the Library Association of Ireland wanted to enable members to give their views on the group, to understand what aspects of a library association are important to librarians in Ireland, and to learn about the reasons for and against membership. Methods – Surveys are a useful way of obtaining evidence to inform policy and practice. Although relatively quick to produce, their design and dissemination can pose challenges. The HSLG committee developed an online survey questionnaire for members and non-members (anyone eligible to join our library association). We primarily used multiple choice, matrix, and contextual/demographic questions, with skip logic enabling choices of relevance to respondents. Our literature review provided guidance in questionnaire design and suggested four themes that we used to develop options and to analyse results. Results – The survey was made available for two weeks and we received 49 eligible responses. Analysis of results and reflection on the process suggested aspects that we would change in terms of the language used in our questionnaire and dissemination methods. There were also aspects that show good potential, including the four themes that were used to understand what matters to members: expertise (professional development), community (connecting and engaging), profession (sustaining and strengthening), and support (financial and organizational supports). Overall, our survey provided rich data that met our objectives. Conclusion – It is essential that those who are governing any group make evidence based decisions, and a well-planned survey can support this. Our article outlines the elements of our questionnaire and process that didn’t work, and those that show promise. We hope that lessons learned will help anyone planning a survey, particularly associations who wish to ascertain the views of their members and others who are eligible to join. With some proposed modifications, our questionnaire could provide a template for future study in this area.
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Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
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