M&ABJBPL Community Interest Data

M&ABJ Bristow Public Library

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Community Interest data

Technology & Information Literacy Data

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survey content

Evaluation

conclusions

about the survey

When online survey data is compared to paper survey data, there are some notable differences. Also, the data is not truly descriptive of the community: the library was unable to get data from residents in low income housing environments.

Observations

The aim of the surveys was to obtain data pertaining to the community's wants and needs and to define community interests. The library intends to use data from these surveys to guide its decision making processes.

objectives

The M&ABJ Bristow Public Library conducted a Community Interest Survey for roughly six weeks between the last week of July and the first week of September. The surveys were available in paper format and online.

context

about the survey

survey content

Key community requests are more youth and teen programming as well as more adult programming. Make & Take Crafts, book and movie clubs were other top requests.

community wants

80 percent of patrons use and desire access to audiobooks and/or large print books.

Audiobooks & LP

Increased number of movies in the library are a top request of patrons. Desired genres include: Comedy, romantic, action, and mystery/thriller/crime drama.

Movies

Gardening, outdoors, travel, agricultural interests, DIY/ arts & crafts were the top hobbies of respondents.

Hobbies

Gardening, outdoors activities, travel, arts & crafts, and agricultural-related topics are the tope interests of patrons polled.

Subject Interests

Roughly 94 percent of patrons enjoy reading. Notable were a number of respondents stating access to audiobooks or large print would increase their reading time.

Reading

The following categories were key takeways from the data presented in the surveys:

of digital respondents

... enjoy mystery/thriller genres; yet, zero percent of paper respondents reported reading this genre. A notable minority seeks DIY and How-To materials.

Evaluation

like outdoorsy things.

Overwhelmingly categories pertaining to outdoors, gardening, and agricultural interests ranked as key interests.

lack reliable Internet access.

While patrons' methods of access to the internet varies between phones, computers, or both, about 42 percent lack access at home.

enjoy Western and Romance genres.

Yet a large percentage of library book orders continue to be explicitly these genres.

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These key takeways will underpin our most sudden and noticable changes.

Technology & Information Literacy Data

• 80 percent of all respondents acces the internet through their phone or tablet only.
• Roughly 5 percent primarily use a PC; roughly 15 percent of respondents use both.

• The average TIL ranking of paper respondents is 5.2; the average TIL ranking of online respondents is 6.8
• 6.2 is the average TIL score for all respondents.

63 percent of survey participants completed their surveys online. 27 percent completed the form. Interestingly, 50 percent of resondents who completed surveys online lack internet access at home; yet, only 25 percent of paper respondents lack internet access at home. 44 percent of paper respondents have a PC at home; only 21 percent of online respondents have PCs at home.

Access to TIL resources

conclusions

• Y'all really like gardening! Also, we anticipate travel to be a growing interest.
• Library aims to provide better programming for youth & teens, adults, and seniors.
• We will provide both educational and entertaining programming. We will provide programming in person, and digitally when necessary.
• We aim to modify our collections in format and content to better suit our patrons' wants.
• We also aim to increase access to audiobooks (both on CD and digital), large print resources, and movies.

Up at at 'em! Let's do this!