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On 11/27/12 10:35 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: > I admit, I'm no expert on surveys (I tried doing one once for a class > ... got shut down for an IRB violation as I said I'd share the results > back with the organization we were surveying ... which is pretty sad, > as the organization I was surveying was the library school itself) ... > but you could do a much larger survey, trying to get all people who > work in libraries, and ask questions about specific IT-related tasks > that they might be doing, even if they don't self-identify as IT. Of > course, then you might miss those of us who don't work in libraries, > but who may identify with this group. ... and make sure that whoever > does it isn't at an academic institution, to avoid that IRB crap. -Joe Joe, what I was hoping for was not a survey where individuals report on themselves, but a statistical sample of libraries where the library reports on its staff. That avoid the "self-image" issue, and the selection that individual reporting on self entails. kc -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet