Serials Sect DGs -- Carolynne Myall Stephen Clark 30 Nov 2001 20:43 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Serials Sect DGs Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:33:16 -0600 From: Carolynne Myall <cmyall@MAIL.EWU.EDU> Dear members of the serials community-- Bob Persing, Michael Elmore, and I have been charged by the ALCTS Serials Section Executive Committee to evaluate the Section's discussion groups: Journal Costs DG and Research Libraries DG. We believe that participants, former participants, and prospective participants in the Section's discussion groups have insights and observations that we need to hear. We'd appreciate your help in the evaluation process. Could you answer the following questions for us? Or even a few of these questions? (We know you all are busy!) And if these questions don't seem to you to be the right questions, or the most relevant questions, feel free to add any comments and observations that you would like us to consider. Please send responses directly to me at cmyall@mail.ewu.edu, or to Bob at persing@pobox.upenn.edu, or to Michael at melmore@barnard.columbia.edu. We will be happy to share a summary of results, after we have completed our report. Thank you in advance for your help in this process. Best regards, Carolynne Myall Vice Chair, Serials Section ************************** During the past two years, have you attended meetings of either of the two Serials Section Discussion Groups-- Research Libraries DG and Journal Costs DG-- at ALA's Annual Conference? At Midwinter Conference? What prompted you to attend, or not to attend discussion group meetings? If you have attended meetings at both conferences, have you noticed any differences (e.g. attendance) between Serials DG meetings at Annual and Midwinter Conferences? Did you feel that any part of the meeting was too long, too short, not necessary? If so, do you have any ideas for improving the meetings? What opportunities for discussion did the sessions provide? Small group, whole audience, response to presentations? Were there typically enough attendees at the sessions to carry on a discussion? Did the specific topics for discussion seem important to attendees? Did they join in discussion readily, or reluctantly, or not at all? Did you, personally, learn anything about serials practice? Are the Journal Costs DG and the Research Libraries DG still useful to participants? Is their focus just specific enough, too broad or too narrow, of continuing current interest or outdated? Would other DGs be useful, and if so, in what subject areas? Why do you think so? In your experience, do the discussion groups provide any unique or unusual opportunities for participants that they wouldn't have (or wouldn't have as reliably or frequently) through other groups, or through programs? Do you have other observations about Serials DGs? Is there anything else that you would like to tell us about your discussion group experience? ************ Carolynne Myall Head, Collection Services University Libraries of Eastern Washington University LIB 100, 816 F St. Cheney, WA 99004-2423 Phone (509) 359-6967; FAX (509) 359-2476; Internet cmyall@ewu.edu