This message is from Jan Smits.-------------Johnnie ---------------------------------------------------------- Wed, 3 Nov 1993 13:20:37 +0100 [log in to unmask] USER SURVEYS (A) The "Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER" [LIBER = Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche], the European Mapcuratorsgroup, has organized in 1987 an "Inquiry into map-use and user-habits in Europe". There were 2,847 questionaires coming from 96 institutions in 8 countyries filled in. The questionnaire consisted of 21 questions (most with several options to fill in) divided into several chapters: background of user, kind of documents requested, library services (catalogues, reference-library, help of mapcurator), reproduction-facilities. The final report (by me, who was and still is secretary of the board of this group) was published under the following title: "Report on the 'Inquiry into map-use and user-habits in Europe'". In: ERCL The LIBER Quarterly, Vol. 1, 1991, no. 3, p. 283-310. Diagrams, questionnaire and arithmatic results included. If you are interested I can send you a copy of the report by mail. Jan Smits Mapcurator, Royal Library, The Netherlands [log in to unmask]