Rice University’s Fondren Library has partnered with Ithaka S+R to administer an online survey this Spring to inform and improve library services. Faculty will be surveyed on three topics, including: Digital Research Activities, Data Preservation & Management, and Discovery. Undergraduates and graduate students will be invited to participate in a 10-minute national survey on library services that has been administered at many other universities, including UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Chicago, and Swarthmore. The faculty survey has been done at Harvard, Tulane, Baylor, and Princeton. The online survey will be offered Tuesday, March 17th to Wednesday, April 8th. Fondren Library will use the results of the survey to inform an upcoming website redesign in July and to generate ideas for service enhancements.
Research staff from Ithaka S+R will visit campus in early May to present the findings to Fondren Library and work with the Rice community to understand the results. The Faculty Survey and the Student Survey will provide a heightened awareness of campus needs and help library leaders to manage changes in the research process.
More information about the survey can be found at the Ithaka S+R website, http://sr.ithaka.org/content/surveys.
For questions or comments about the Survey, please contact: Debra Kolah (dkolah@rice.edu) or Sandi Edwards (edwards@rice.edu).