Upcoming Presentations: CLAC 2011

Members of the MISO Survey team will present at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC), to be held June 14-16 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Our presentation is entitled “What Students and Faculty Want: Insights from the MISO Survey.” We’ll post additional details as they become available.

2011 MISO Survey Analysis

With the 2011 survey cycle now complete, the MISO Survey has a total of 12,842 faculty responses, 18,324 staff responses, and 23,048 student respondents from 2005-2011. This rich data set will allow the MISO Survey team to perform new analysis of trends that affect library and IT organizations.

All of the 2011 participating institutions have now received their survey data. In June, the Survey team will release the Excel workbooks that allow participating institutions to see statistically significant trends in comparison to other schools or dynamically created cohorts. Institutions that have participated in the Survey more than once will also be able to track trends over time.

2011 Survey Cycle – Response Rates Over 50%

The 2011 MISO Survey has now closed.  This year, 17 institutions participated in the survey cycle, with 9 institutions participating for the first time, and 8 institutions returning.

We’re happy to report that response rates for faculty, staff, and students were all over 50%.

For each population, here is its number of respondents and its response rate.

	2011 Responses	2011 Response Rate
Faculty	2,401	55.3%
Staff	3,109	51.3%
Students	5,006	51.9%

 

While participation has been strong overall, we’re particularly pleased with the high response rates among undergraduates. We are unaware of any other national survey regarding libraries and/or IT organizations that has higher student response rates.