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	<description>Measuring Higher Education Library &#38; IT Services</description>
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		<title>NERCOMP 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The entire  MISO Survey team presents at NERCOMP 2010.  &#8220;The Perfect Storm: Assessing Trends in IT and Library Services; MISO  Survey Results from 2005 to 2009&#8221; takes place from 4:30-5:20 on Tuesday, March 9.
Download the presentation slides.
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		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2010/03/nercomp-2010/</link>
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		<title>2009 Benchmarks: Faculty Frequency of Use, Importance, and Satisfaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faculty: Frequency of Use
Faculty report less than weekly use of library and technology services and resources.  No area in the survey scored in the 4.0 or higher range.  The most frequently used services and resources had means in the 3.0 to 3.9 range, meaning use was one to three times a month or so.  Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/11/2009-benchmarks-faculty-frequency-of-use-importance-and-satisfaction/</link>
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		<title>2009 Benchmarks: Student Frequency of Use, Importance, and Satisfaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students: Frequency of Use
Students report use of the course management system more than one to three times a week, with a mean of 4.24 on a five-point scale.  This is the only resource reported to be used with this level of frequency by any of the three populations surveyed (students, faculty, and staff).
All of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/11/2009-benchmarks-student-frequency-of-use-importance-and-satisfaction/</link>
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		<title>2009 Benchmarks: Staff Frequency of Use, Importance, and Satisfaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Staff: Frequency of Use
Staff do not use library and technology services and resources frequently.  With the exception of ERP self service (used monthly), staff report use of services and resources no more than once or twice a semester.  In contrast, students report use of some resources several times a week, and faculty report use of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/11/2009-benchmarks-staff-frequency-of-use-importance-and-satisfaction/</link>
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		<title>MISO Survey 2010 Participants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The call for 2010 MISO Survey participants has closed, and the 2010 cohort includes seventeen schools:

Allegheny College
Baylor University
Beloit College
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Colby-Sawyer College
DePauw University
Ferrum College
Lafayette College
Massachusetts College of Art &#38; Design
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
St. Lawrence University
The College at Brockport
University of Richmond
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Most of the schools participating in this survey cycle have participated previously.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/09/miso-survey-2010-participants/</link>
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		<title>2010 MISO Survey &#8211; Call to Participate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The MISO Survey Team invites your institution to participate in the 2010 MISO Survey.  Soon we will finalize this year&#8217;s participating schools.  Fourteen of the 20 available slots have been claimed leaving space for six more schools.  Please let us know if you would like to have your institution to be included [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/08/2010-miso-survey-call-to-participate/</link>
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		<title>‘Tis the Season to Discuss Our Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian at Temple University, in his From the Bell Tower column for Library Journal, writes about the future of academic libraries.  In this first of a two-part article, &#8220;&#8216;Tis the Season to Discuss Our Future,&#8221; he focuses on an article from the May 2009 issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/06/%e2%80%98tis-the-season-to-discuss-our-future/</link>
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		<title>2009 Workbooks Now Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 MISO workbooks are now available.  These spreadsheets contain the means from each school for every question in the survey.
The workbooks are a great way to compare your school&#8217;s current results against earlier results.  You can also dynamically create a cohort of schools to compare against your most recent results.  Question type and service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/06/2009-workbooks-now-available/</link>
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		<title>MISO at NISO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Consiglio will be presenting at the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) conference on Performance Measures and Assessment on June 1, 2009.
An agenda for the day is available.
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		<link>http://www.misosurvey.org/2009/05/miso-at-niso/</link>
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