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About
MISO
Overview
and Purpose
The Bryn Mawr Survey is a Web-based quantitative survey designed
to measure how students, faculty, and staff use and evaluate the
services and resources of colleges and universities with merged library
and computing units.
The Bryn Mawr survey asks the following research questions:
- What services and resources are important to our constituents, and how successfully do our organizations deliver them?
- How effectively do we communicate with our campus communities about our services and resources?
- How skilled are our constituents in the use of software and library databases? What additional skills do they wish to learn, and how do they wish to learn them?
- Which software and hardware tools do our constituents use, and which of these tools do they own?
- What roles do our constituents play on campus? What demographic factors identify them?
- What benchmarks for excellent information technology delivery can be established for merged library and computing organizations?
Risk/Benefit
Assessment
There are no risks associated with this study. Data is
collected only via survey and responses to the survey
will be confidential,
though not necessarily anonymous. Participation is voluntary.
All students, faculty, and staff will receive information
about the
survey and are required to view a consent screen before
they can participate
in the survey. No compensation will be given to anyone
participating in the survey. All data is reported in
the aggregate.
Survey Administration
The survey will be administered by Bryn Mawr College.
Each participating institution designates a Campus
Survey Administrator (CSA)
to work with
the survey administration. The survey participants
will not be contacted
directly by the MISO survey team.
Study Results
Results of this study are presented to members of
CLIR
(Council on Library and Information Resources (http://www.clir.org/) with merged Library/IT organizations
and through conferences such
as EDUCAUSE 2006 (http://www.educause.edu/). Presentations from MISO Symposia in 2006 and 2007 are available.
Presentations from the 2008 MISO Symposium are now available:
Questions and
Comments: survey@brynmawr.edu
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