The Library responds to survey results

updated 5/7/2010: The Library is committed to not only collecting feedback from our users but ensuring that the data are used. Actions taken to date related to the 2010 survey results are listed below and as decisions are made from the survey they will be posted here. Please also see some of our "clarifications" to comments.

You would like the Library to improve the collection by adding specific titles and increasing its holdings in specific subject areas.

• The Library is asking its subject specialists to review all your comments about specific subject areas with a view towards meeting our users’ needs.
• The Library has a Purchase Request Form where users can request that the Library purchase specific titles.

• The Library is determining the availability of e-books through our publisher and aggregator booksellers with a view towards increasing those collections.
• The bibliographers for Business and Economics, Psychology and Human Development have  revised their collection policies to favor electronic over print when adding new titles.
• The selectors in science and medicine have also changed their profile to favor e-books over print. Other bibliographers are reviewing their collection development policies as well.

• The Library is alerting appropriate staff when items have multiple recalls.
• The Library alerts staff when items have been declared lost so that they can replace as needed.

• The Library is implementing a User Rights and Responsibilities for Creating and Sustaining a Scholarly Environment to regulate noise and behavior issues impacting its study spaces.
• User input will be carefully considered in the renovation of the Regenstein Reading Rooms and the design of the study spaces of the new Mansueto Library.

We thank all those who participated in this and other surveys.