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Kari & Rosalyn, We are grateful for your interest in our research. I hope you don't mind, but I will be sharing my responses to your questions on the web4lib list. Several others have been asking similar questions off-list or on other lists so I think there is value in sharing these answers with everybody. You asked why we did not include specific project management techniques (waterfall, agile, etc). We wanted the survey to assume little formal knowledge of project management techniques so we used the most general terms we could. Respondents can get more specific by selecting "other" and filling in a short answer. You also asked if we are interested in individual's use of project management software or institutional use. We're focused on what tools institutions or groups use, not so much individual librarians. We will not be able to distinguish between libraries/institutions of the respondents. To balance that we will be including case studies from our own institutions in our conference presentation. We are still gathering data so I don't have any results to share yet. We will share our results with all the lists to which we sent the survey. It will have to be after the Internet Librarian Conference, so look for the results in November. We included a bunch of software programs in the survey, but it is by no means an exhaustive list. If your library tested another program (including the many open-source/GPL products) please select the "other" category and specify the name of the product. Best regards, Andrew