Earlier this year we
posted a link to a survey so we could determine what our local LIS community
wanted. Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey.
The results of this have
now been collated, and are summarised here for your information.
82 people responded to
the survey.
Our thoughts:
It’s fantastic to see
that many of you are ALIA members and attending ALIA events!
Overwhelmingly, we can
see that you would like guest speakers, conference report back sessions and
social events. In response to this we will be organising conference
report back sessions for ALIA Biennial, NLS6 and ALIA Online. Watch this
space for more details. If you are heading to these conferences, and
might be interested in sharing your thoughts with envious colleagues, please
let us know!
Guest speakers and
workshops are also something we’d love to do more of too. To cater to your
needs, suggestions for such events are appreciated.
As to social events, we
are in the very early stages of organising an event to celebrate the 75th anniversary
of ALIA. We’ll provide more details on this closer to the date.
Given the responses to
the best times to hold events, it’s likely that we’ll stick to Tuesday or
Wednesday nights. If you attend the ALIA New Grads/RIMPA events you’ll
note they rotate Tuesday to Wednesday to Thursday to enable a variety of people
to attend.
We look forward to
seeing you at an event in the near future. In the meantime please feel
free to contact us via Facebook, Twitter or by email or leaving a comment on
the blog.
The questions and
results:
Q1. Type of institution:
22
|
|
Academic
|
18
|
School
|
7
|
Specialised
|
25
|
Student
|
3
|
Other
|
7
|
Q2. Are you an ALIA
member?
52
|
|
No
|
30
|
Q3. Have you attended
any ALIA events in the past 2 years?
52
|
|
No
|
29
|
No
answer
|
1
|
Q4. What type of events
would you attend?
13
|
|
Guest
speakers
|
27
|
Workshops
(e.g. How to find a job)
|
14
|
Conference
report back sessions
|
17
|
Mentoring
programs
|
9
|
Social
events
|
15
|
Results received under
‘other’ have been attributed to the option provided that best suited, e.g the
suggestion of ‘social media’ was tallied under ‘workshops’
Q5. On what night would
you prefer events to be held?
6
|
|
Tuesday
|
11
|
Wednesday
|
29
|
Thursday
|
8
|
Friday
|
11
|
Saturday
|
3
|
Sunday
|
2
|
No
answer
|
12
|
Q6. Would you attend an
event held during the day?
51
|
|
Weekend
|
23
|
No
answer
|
8
|
Cross question analysis:
ALIA
members
|
Non
members
|
|
Attended
events in last 2 years
|
38
|
13
|
Not
attended
|
14
|
16
|
ALIA
Members
|
Non
members
|
|
Library
tours
|
9
|
4
|
Guest
speakers
|
18
|
9
|
Workshops
(e.g. How to find a job)
|
9
|
5
|
Conference
report back sessions
|
11
|
6
|
Mentoring
programs
|
7
|
2
|
Social
events
|
10
|
5
|