[Web4lib] The Survey of Academic Librarians: Usefulness of Leading Internet Tools & Sites

[Thomas Bennett]

I guess that refers to "asking for directions" ;-)

Thomas

On Thursday 25 March 2010 11:06:15 B.G. Sloan wrote:
> And here's an odd statement:
>  
> "Contrary to  stereotype, Men were more likely than women to find that
>  Yahoo  Maps was useful in their work." 
> What stereotype?
> 
> --- On Thu, 3/25/10, Mitchell, Michael <Michael.Mitchell at brazosport.edu>
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Mitchell, Michael <Michael.Mitchell at brazosport.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] The Survey of Academic Librarians: Usefulness of
>  Leading Internet Tools & Sites To: "web4lib at webjunction.org"
>  <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 10:46 AM
> 
> 
> Librarians with associates degrees? Please...
> 
> 
> Michael Mitchell
> Technical Services Librarian
> Brazosport College
> Lake Jackson, TX
> michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
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>  Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:27 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] The Survey of Academic Librarians: Usefulness of Leading
>  Internet Tools & Sites
> 
> 
> Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Academic Librarians: 
> Usefulness of Leading Internet Tools & Sites, ISBN 1-57440-145-9.   
> This study presents the results of a survey of academic  librarians about
> their use of leading internet tools and sites such as Ebay,  Google, Bing,
> Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, YouTube, Second Life, Amazon, Wikipedia,  Google
> Books, Flickr, Yahoo Groups, Twitter and others. The  report’s results are
> based on a representative survey of 555 full time academic  librarians in
>  the United  States and  Canada.  Data is presented in the aggregate and 
>  broken out by various characteristics such as gender, age, library work
>  title or field, institutional enrollment, Carnegie class, level of
>  education,  USA or Canada and other  factors.
> Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
>       Librarians  between the ages of 31 – 39 found Facebook the most
> useful Conversely, 65% of  librarians over the age of 60 had little use
>  for  Facebook.
>       Librarians in  special collections and archives used Bing the least,
> while librarians working  in circulation and public services were the most
> likely to say that it was  useful to them,
>       59% of  respondents felt Google Books was more than a little useful;
> only 13% found  Google Books to be of no use.  Librarians working in
> administration and in acquisitions, collection  development, and licensing
>  found Google Books to be of the most  use.
>       Librarians  with either an associate’s degree or a BA/BS degree
> indicated that YouTube was  not particularly useful (64% and 57%
>  respectively) while almost half of those  with an MLS and additional
>  degrees felt YouTube was  useful.
>       Librarians  from PHD granting institutions found Twitter to be the
> least useful (76%) while  approximately 40% of staff at community colleges
> felt that Twitter was of  use.
>       90% of  librarians under the age of 30 found Yahoo Groups not useful
> whereas  approximately 33% of librarians in their 50s felt Yahoo Groups was
> a little  useful to very useful in their work. 
>       Contrary to  stereotype, Men were more likely than women to find
> that Yahoo  Maps was useful in their work.
>       Women were  less likely than men to find Ebay useful in their work;
> librarians at public  colleges were less likely than those at private
> colleges to find Ebay of  use.   
>       68% of all  respondents indicated that Amazon.com was useful to them
> in their work.  80% of librarians working in  administration found Amazon
> to be of particular use whereas only 53% of their  counterparts in special
> collections and archives found the same.   
>       Librarians  with an associate’s degree were more likely to think
> that the use of Wikipedia  should be strongly discouraged whereas those
>  with a doctorate were most likely  to feel it is an acceptable source of
>  background information.
> The 103-page report has approximately 230 tables of data as well as 
> explanatory commentary.  For further  information view our website at 
> www.PrimaryResearch.com.
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