A few things about the ongoing survey (yow! librarians really like to talk about listservs):

Mea culpa on question nine! Shoulda been checkboxes. PhpESP says I can’t change an “active” survey, so we’re stuck with it.

It occurred to me that there’s a pretty big flaw in methodology here. As Dominique noted in the previous post, it might have helped to ask how respondents heard about the survey. How do librarians get the word out about something? Uh, listservs. So, it’s an inherently biased group. If I were a major player in the biblioblogosphere or if we decided to pass out paper surveys (paper surveys? quelle horreur!) at ALA, we might be reaching the non-listserv using population. I suspect there are two components to the non-listserv population- those that live online and keep up with IM, microblogging, blogs and the like and those who don’t keep up at all (or keep up only with print, I guess).

We did get a fair number of responses before we publicized it on listservs. Twitter people did take the survey, but there have been far more responses since we posted it on listservs. I wonder, too, about more a informal network. Linda is certainly more well-connected than I am, so I suspect she’ll be able to work the word of mouth method to our advantage. I have noticed that Twitter folks and people I know personally are more likely to include their name and/or email. It’s not statistically usable, but it does give a sense of who found the survey via listservs and who saw it on Twitter or spoke to one of us about it.

Once more, for good measure, here’s the survey: http://tinyurl.com/224vdd