Health Libraries and Web 2.0 Survey: Aussie Edition
Last post of 2007. Really.
A survey was undertaken in 2007 in the US by the MLA Social Networking Software Task Force investigating use of collaborative/social networking tools and services. Results from the original survey of MLA members are reported at the Task Force on Social Networking Software blog.
Libraries Using Evidence - eblip.net.au and NSW Health, with the support of Health Libraries Australia, extended this survey to the Australian context. Staff in health libraries across Australia (hospital, academic, special etc) were invited to participate.
The Australian data will be used to generate a snapshot of the use of and attitudes towards collaborative/social networking tools and services. Results will provide librarians with evidence to assist in influencing policy and practice at their workplace. Results will be reported in the first instance on the Health LIS 2.0 and Libraries Using Evidence blogs.
Cool!
Preliminary results: [PDF]
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December 19th, 2007 at 12:43 am
[...] December 19, 2007 in hlis2.0 by gillianwood You know you’re behind the times when something has been posted once, then David Rothman blogs about it. So everyone already knows that the first results are out from this survey. Whether anyone is interested in reading them at this end of the year is another issue entirely! I know I’m not. So it’s good that a detailed look at the interesting points of this survey will be presented in a paper at Beyond the Hype in February. Meanwhile, you can have a look at the pretty graphs! A cursory glance does note some interesting differences between us and our US counterparts - it will be interesting to explore this further. [...]