Greenstone User Survey

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Greenstone User Survey

• Laura Sheble
• Wayne State University
• Detroit, MI
• lauras_at_wayne.edu

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Overview

• Who Users Developers of Greenstone
• What Online Survey (MS Word version also
  made available)
• When December 2004-January 2005
• Why

• Understand current use of support
• Feedback on support mechanisms methods
• Information about organizations that use
  Greenstone, their collections, target populations
  for collections, and their technical environments.

More background information http//www.lib.wayne.
edu/org/greenstone/survey.php
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Development
Timeline Initial Survey Development August
October 2004 Refinement, testing October
November 2004 Release December 3, 2004 Close
(January 7, 2005)

• Survey Contributors
• Greenstone Developers, including
• members of the wider Greenstone
• development community
• Wayne State University

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Design Summary
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Survey Response

• 58 responses
• 4 discarded not valid survey responses.
• Of the valid responses, there seemed not to be
  more than one response per organization.
• Survey announced on the mailing lists also a
  link to the survey was added to the Greenstone
  website.
• 600 subscribers to the Greenstone mailing lists.

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Geographic distribution of survey respondents
Latvia Namibia New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Port
ugal Romania Samoa Sudan Tonga Turkey United
Kingdom United States Vietnam (No Answer)
Argentina Australia Austria Bangladesh Canada Chil
e China Colombia Cuba Fiji Germany Greece India In
donesia Iraq
Plus collections for France, Spain,
global distribution
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Proficiency with Greenstone
Professional title or functional role

• Assistant Professor
• Assistant/Librarian
• Auxiliary Professor
• Computer Officer
• Consultant (Libraries Archives)
• Development Comm. Specialist

Information Assistant IT Assistant IT
Professional IT specialist Learning
Designer Librarian Library Director Library
Services Officer Library Technician
Professor Programmer Programmer/Analyst Project
Manager Research Assistant Senior
Librarian Software Engineer Systems
Administrator
Development of Electronic Database Digital
Library Mgmt. Director, Multimedia Production
Lab Engineering GRA, doctoral student (IS) Head,
IT Department Head, Digital Library Development
Ctr. Head, Information Section Head, Resources
Info. Services Dept.
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Modes of Use,Organizational Environment
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Access Collection User Description
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Learning to use Greenstone
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Support, Training, Awareness
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Support, Training, Awareness
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Thank you!