Please Take This Survey

As mentioned here, I am a part of the Panorama Project Readers Advisory Impact Committee. From the site:

The Panorama Project Readers’ Advisory Impact Committee (RAIC) is researching, documenting and analyzing the wide variety of Readers’ Advisory title and author recommendation activities in use in our public libraries. The committee is studying both librarian-to-patron (direct) activities and library-to-community (indirect) activities. These include in-person conversations, form-based recommendations, in-library table and shelf displays, online catalog and website displays, reading lists (distributed in print and electronically), newsletters, podcasts, blog posts, author events and visits, and more.

We recently published a Directory of Readers' Advisory Activities here. But more recently, we have been working on and testing a fairly comprehensive survey. It officially went live today. I would really appreciate it if my readers took the survey.

It will take you 15-20 minutes, but the data we are compiling will go a long way toward our goal of proving that the work we do in libraries, connecting books with readers, does lead toward more money for the publishers even though no money changes hands in our interactions with readers.

Thank you in advance.

Click here for the original post with the details or see below for the information with links:

Our Readers’ Advisory Activities Survey is Live: Please Participate!

The Readers’ Advisory Impact Committee’s survey of Readers’ Advisory activities is live. 

The survey is open to all U.S. public libraries and public librarians. It takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete. The committee will be collecting responses through May 21.

The committee created this survey as part of its ongoing effort to catalog and measure the impact of public library Readers' Advisory activities—including activities that take place onsite and online. 

The committee is also updating its recently published Directory of Readers’ Advisory Activities with new activities, additional examples

and more information on relevant Readers’ Advisory resources for practitioners.

We need your help:

• Please take the survey now

• Please help us promote the survey. Share this link with the public librarians in your network: http://bit.ly/ra_survey

Every response counts! Thank you…

The directory and survey are the first steps in the Panorama Project’s effort to document and measure the impact of public library readers’ advisory activities on title/author discovery and retail sales.

The project will publish its survey findings this summer.

For more information on the survey contact raic@panoramaproject.org