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Hi,
 
At Macquarie University Library we are planning to survey users and
to conduct some focus group meetings with selected users to ascertain details
of present usage (apart from the basic statistics one can collect),
satifaction and expectations, both of the collection as it now exists and
as it may exist in the future.
 
Issues relating to map production in Australia (particularly New South Wales),
demand and likely use of digitised data, existing and anticipated types of
staff and student usage of maps in teaching and study, and the
administrative/structural relationship between the Library, which houses the
collection and the teaching Schools will be covered in the survey
questionaire and the focus group research.
 
Have any members done this already? I would be interested in seeing
similar questionaires if they have been done and hearing of the results of
any focus group research on map usage etc, particularly in university
libraries or teaching facilities.
 
The collection is primarily a teaching collection.
 
Thanks
 
Bill
 
 
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         Bill Stinson
         Media Services Department
         Library
         Macquarie University
         Sydney                  phone: 02 850-7557
         NSW 2109                fax:   02 850-7568
         Australia               email: [log in to unmask]
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