Wanderings of a Librarian

2006-11-07

Interval Library

I haven't seen this blogged anywhere, yet, but a coworker was talking about it and a former professor put it up on the library school's student list server--compact-shelving moves to music in the video Interval Library.

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2006-10-11

Not just for fun

Two things have made me laugh out loud today.


  1. the exchange between Nicole Engard and her mother on Nicole's blog, What I Learned Today

  2. the teasing responses from a couple of students to my participation in a Live Journal discussion


I consider the second item to be not only fun, but the best interaction with students I've had yet using social software.

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2006-09-15

Survey closed

Thanks for taking the Survey Monkey survey. Very helpful!

I found Survey Monkey quite easy to use. I built the survey without reading any documentation--I had to go back a couple of times when I guessed wrong what a particular "question type" referred to, but that was easy enough. It was a bit less intuitive when it came to making the survey active and figuring out how to link to it.

  • To make a Survey Monkey survey active, you open it by clicking on the closed box next to the survey in the listing

  • To figure out how to link to the survey, you click on the collect icon and it gives you a choice to create a link for an email or a web page.


Accessing the results were also intuitive, so here they are:
  • 26 respondents

  • Number of books that I have read so far in 2006:
    • 0 to 2: 7.7% 2 respondents
    • 3 to 5: 3.8% 1 respondent
    • 6 to 10: 11.5% 3 respondents
    • 11 to 20: 15.4% 4 respondents
    • 21 to 30: 26.9% 7 respondents
    • 31 to 40: 3.8% 1 respondent
    • 40 plus: 30.8% 8 respondents

  • The type of books I have read most often for pleasure in 2006 are:
    • Mystery novels: 34.6% 9 respondents
    • Romance novels: 15.4% 4 respondents
    • Adventure novels: 17.7% 2 respondents
    • Science fiction novels: 23.1% 6 respondents
    • Biographies: 3.8% 1 respondent
    • Self help: 0% 0 respondents
    • Other: 57.7% 15 respondents

  • The number of nonprofessional magazine titles I have subscribed to or regularly read in 2006:
    • 0 to 2: 50% 13 respondents
    • 3 to 5: 46.2% 12 respondents
    • 6 or more: 3.8% 1 respondent

The "other" in the types of books questions drew responses like: nonfiction, graphic novels, and history. Thanks, everyone! This was fun.

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2006-09-14

Survey Monkey

We're using Survey Monkey this semester for evaluations of our Library Instructions sessions. I want a bit of practice with the collection half of this process before I start using this with students. So, help me out here. Take this survey on reading for pleasure--it's only three questions and I'll post the results late tomorrow afternoon. Thanks!

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2006-09-09

Why I love working on a college campus

Well, okay, so I'm working on a Saturday.

But, how many Americans get to say they watched a cricket match while eating lunch today?

Of course, I didn't know much of anything about what was going on. But neither did about half the players. Lack of knowledge of the rules or strategies didn't seem to diminish any one's enjoyment of a delightful late summer afternoon.

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