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Measuring for Soup: The MISO Survey David Consiglio Pattie Orr Andrew White NERCOMP - March 22, 2006

What is MISO? Merged Information Services Organizations Survey “The Bryn Mawr Survey” A web-based quantitative survey designed to measure use and effectiveness for students, faculty, and staff of the services and resources of merged library and computing units

Development of the Survey Pilot Implementation Benefits Developing a Culture of Evidence

Services Trends in skills Use of new technologies Future directions What services to stop How Are We Doing?

Questions Asked by the MISO Survey What kinds of information technologies are faculty, staff, and students using and with what levels of skill? How do faculty, staff, and students perceive the value of offered services, communication, and support? What is the preference of faculty, staff, and students for learning about information technology? How do faculty, staff, and students prefer to solve problems related to information technology? What obstacles do individuals face in their use of technology? What benchmarks for excellent information technology delivery can be established for merged library and computing organizations?

First instrument developed at Bryn Mawr College 2004 MISO Developed in 2005 by 5 Pilot Schools –Bryn Mawr College –Bates College –Middlebury College –University of Richmond –Wellesley College 15 Additional Schools in Spring 2006 Collaborative in nature Project funded by pilot schools Steering committee –CIOs and survey team from the 5 original pilot schools –Encouraged and supported by CLIR History of the Survey

University of Richmond –Patricia A. Schoknecht, PI* –Doug West, PI as of 12/05 –Kathy Monday, VP for Information Services Bates College –Andrew W. White, PI –Gene Weimers, VP for Library and Information Services Bryn Mawr College –David M. Consiglio, PI –Elliott Shore, CIO & Director of Libraries Wellesley College –Pattie Orr, PI –Micheline Jedry, VP Information Services and College Librarian Middlebury College –Carol Peddie, PI –Barbara Doyle Wilch, Dean of Library & Information Services Fall 2005 Pilot *Pat Schoknecht is now the CIO at Wagner College and continues to work on the survey administration.

Survey Timeline First met January 28, 2005 to begin process –Multiple iterations –Feedback from institutional colleagues Feb Completion of first draft March-April Focus groups Summer Develop optional questions Fall Implementation at pilot team schools Spring Implementation 15 participant schools

2006 Survey Participants Mills College Mitchell College Mt. Holyoke College Rhodes College Sewanee: the University of the South Wagner College Wheaton College (MA) Barnard College Beloit College Brandeis University Bucknell College Connecticut College Dickinson College Earlham College Kenyon College

Survey Questions Three instruments developed –Faculty –Staff –Students Three question categories –Core –Optional –Local Six question types Eight service areas assessed

Sample Questions Core Question –Over the course of a semester how often do you use the following services? Course Management System (customized for each school) –Responses: Never, Once or Twice a Semester, One to three times a month, One to three times a week, More than 3 times a week Optional Question –How strongly do you disagree or agree with the following statements with regards to the ERP (customize for each school) support staff? Friendly Knowledgeable Reliable Responsive –Responses: Disagree, Somewhat Disagree, Somewhat Agree, Agree, Not applicable Custom Question –Over the course of a semester, on average, how often do you use the following services? Speech telephone directory assistance line (x4000) –Responses: Never, Once or Twice a Semester, One to three times a month, One to three times a week, More than 3 times a week

Survey Logistics Full population of faculty and staff Sample 700 students (based on similar size populations) Confidential but not anonymous IRB approval required Information Sharing Agreement required Data administered by Bryn Mawr

Data Handling Participating institutions need approval from the survey development team before sharing any results of other institutions/ISA Participating schools need an IRB approval or exemption Participating institutions receive their own data as well as summary data across all institutions Institutional level data – share it, see it Data collected and administered through BMC

Using the Data Ways to manage comments- either end of the bell curve. Sharing data with staff and sharing with the community. How we’re parsing data- know your community.

Tales from the Trenches What did we learn? What can we stop doing? What can we do better?

Summing It Up Positive feedback Value of participation Addresses known need Provides benchmarks Flexible for individual institutions

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