Brief Survey- library reorg

From: "Lembo, Mary Frances" <MF.Lembo@pnl.gov>
Subject: Brief Survey- library reorg
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:55:03 -0700

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Dear Colleagues,

We are in the midst of planning for an upcoming reorganization and would
like to get some feedback on national trends regarding the assignment of
duties to science librarians. I know how busy this time of year gets,
but I'm hoping you would be willing to take 3 minutes or less to answer
the following questions (most of which are yes/no questions). Your
feedback is extremely important and will have a direct and immediate
impact. 
Responses on or before Wednesday, May 31 would be most useful. I'll be
happy to summarize results for the list.

1. Do you currently have collection planning (a.k.a. 
collection development, collection management) responsibilities for a
particular subject(s)?

2. Do your collection planning duties comprise more than half of the
focus of your job?

3. Do you also participate in some reference and instruction duties? If
so, how many hours per week do you work reference?

4. Do you teach both undergraduate and graduate students?

5. If you were planning to hire a new science librarian, would one of
the duties include collection planning?

6. In hiring science librarians for your library, if a candidate did not
have prior experience in collection planning, would that eliminate them
from your consideration?

7. What is your title?

8. At what institution do you work?

Many thanks for your help with these questions.

Catherine Soehner and Wei Wei

Science & Engineering Library
University of California, Santa Cruz
Phone: 831/459-3582
Fax: 831/459-2797
Eamil: wwei@ucsc.edu
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