Survey Results
From mid-March 2009 until mid-May 2009 we asked students to complete a survey on our website. Click here to read the results from last year's survey, and click here for the year before. Here's what everyone wrote.Please click here to send us additional comments. We'd love to hear how we're doing.
187 people entered the survey
Respondents were from the following Departments:
Nursing - 34 (18.18%)
LiberalArtsScience - 30 (16.04%)
Liberal_Arts - 22 (11.76%)
Radiologic - 13 (6.95%)
Business_Administration - 12 (6.42%)
Dental_Hygiene - 12 (6.42%)
Public_Administration - 11 (5.88%)
Accounting - 9 (4.81%)
Education_Teachers - 8 (4.28%)
Civil_Engineering_Science - 6 (3.21%)
Office_Technology - 6 (3.21%)
No_Response - 5 (2.67%)
Other - 4 (2.14%)
Gerontology - 4 (2.14%)
Community_Health_Education - 3 (1.6%)
Electrical_Engineering - 3 (1.6%)
Microcomputers - 2 (1.07%)
Paralegal - 2 (1.07%)
Undecided - 1 (0.53%)
How often do you use the library?
| Every Day | Few Times a Week | Few Times a Month | Few Times a Semester | Never |
| 62 (33.16%) | 81 (43.32%) | 23 (12.3%) | 16 (8.6%) | 1 (0.53%) |
Why do you come to the library?
Study Alone: 151 (80.7%)
Use the Internet: 117 (62.6%)
Print or Photocopy: 112 (59.9%)
Use Print Journals: 111 (59.4%)
Attend a Workshop: 99 (52.9%)
Check out a Book: 89 (47.6%)
Check E-Mail: 80 (42.8%)
Get Help with Research: 66 (35.3%)
Study with a Group: 75 (40.1%)
Return a Book: 75 (40.1%)
Find an interesting book to read: 49 (26.2%)
Meet with Friends: 41 (21.9%)
Use a Group Study Room: 30 (16%)
Use materials on Reserve: 33 (17.6%)
Checkout a Laptop: 28 (15%)
Users wrote in the following other reasons: meet with the liaison, consultations with librarians, leaf through books in the stacks, work here, work at the Library, sometimes is about get help with research and study alone too.
Users assigned ratings based on the scale: Excellent (4), Good (3), Fair (2), Poor (1) or No Opinion. If they indicated "No Opinion" their response was not included in the average. Their responses follow:
Please rate your experience with library staff and faculty when you:
- Seek Help at the Reference Desk: 3.4 of 179 total responses to this question.
- Attend a Workshop: 3.5 of 156 total responses to this question.
- Check out a Book: 3.3 of 166 total responses to this question.
- Check out a Reserve Item: 3.3 of 153 total responses to this question.
- Library Website: 3.5 of 176 total responses to this question.
- Online databases and journals: 3.5 of 174 total responses to this question.
- Off campus Access to online library resources: 3.3 of 168 total responses to this question.
- Print books and journals: 3.3 of 166 total responses to this question.
- Printing: 3.3 of 178 total responses to this question.
- Hours of Operation: 3.2 of 173 total responses to this question.
- Photocopying: 3.2 of 175 total responses to this question.
- Laptop Loan: 3.2 of 128 total responses to this question.
- I would like to have the library open 24/7 I am the kind of person who likes to study a lot and I need books to finish my own studies
- i,ll do it all again
- thank you
- the services at the library is very good yet there is room for improvement
- I havent get a laptop loan
- I think everyone is going a wonderful job The library is a big help to all students
- Library should be open at 7:30 or 8:00, (:00 is too late So that we can use labrary resources more Most of us are working students So the day we go to school we can go little earlier and take the advantage of library
- library should be open earlier
- the place is always clean and i love the learning environmwnts quiet as well
- the place is always clean and i love the learning environmwnts quiet as well
- Hours shold be exteneded more
- I like this library it is very well organized
- students are not allowed to use cell in library,but people who work there, to me, loud
- I think the library and it staff is a great help to us the students
- the are very helpful when it come to good service
- I am an Allied Health Student and we need the Library to be opened later than it is How can we be expected to maintain passing grades and stat our school well, in such rigirous programs without the resources Please keep the libraries opened longer We need it
- I would like to continue to learn new things each day in life once I continue to go to school Education is the key to success
- workshop is excellent more flyer need to be submitted
- MORE OPEN HOURS FOR THE LIBRARY WE NEED TO HAVE WHERE TO STUDY , PLEASE
- We need more printing machines and the library should be open at leat until 12:00 pm
- The library and faculty have been very helpful to me in my times of need whether it was to check out book, print work or just to surf the web i got all the help i needed
- please check out your printing machine it rarely works
- the libuary is grate
- history library is really helpful
- i like the service in the library, nice people
