Who ARE you (smart, discerning, attractive…) people?
Last week I asked that readers take a minute to anonymously answer a single survey question because I was curious about the makeup of this blog’s readership. The survey has been up since 6/15/07 and has perhaps received votes from enough participants (154) to indicate some general trends about the readership of this blog. Here’s the breakdown of how readers who participated describe their professions:
So this would seem to indicate that the readers of this blog are mostly (120 of 154, ~78%) libraryfolk…
…and most of those libraryfolk (92 of 120, ~77%) are medical libraryfolk. This all seems reasonable and makes sense. Thank you very much to those 154 kind people who took a minute to help indulge my curiosity!
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August 13th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
[...] What about the other medical librarians? Have they discovered you and your blog? Do they consider you as a “leader” regarding your topics? Based on a poll, I’d estimate that about 60% of my blog’s readers are medical librarians or medical library paraprofessionals. I’m not really qualified to estimate how I am regarded among medical libraryfolk, though I’ve been invited to present to librarians at the Mayo Clinic and at MLA 2008 (the annual meeting of the professional association for U.S. Medical Librarians) – so those appear to be good signs that a handful of people think I’m speaking out of the correct orifice. Some individual medical librarians who I respect and admire have said some nice things about my blog, and that’s pretty exciting for someone who has only been working in this field for a couple of years. [...]