[Koha-devel] ILS Perceptions survey (Marshall Breeding)

[Marshall Breeding]

MJ,

The survey needs to cover the automation scenarios in place in most
libraries.  Within any given niche, there may be some quirks, but almost all
ILS implementations contract for support only from a single organization.
In rare cases, there may be additional contracts to other vendors for
development tasks, but the question focuses on support. I don't want to
design the survey around edge cases that rarely occur. 

In this year's survey, I've added an additional factor for libraries to
indicate whether they receive support directly from their "ILS vendor" or
through an intermediary such as through another library or consortium.  This
gives me a way to analyze the results in a way that accommodates the
situation in many consortia where the first-line support happens locally
with only unresolved issues being directed to the contracted support
organization.  

Libraries responding to the survey can always provide additional information
in the comments field to explain any special circumstances, and often they
do.  

I publish summaries of the survey responses in a way that protects the
confidentiality of the responders.  I do not plan to release the data beyond
that.  While it may be possible to scrub and normalize the data in a way
that it could be shared publicly, it would take more effort beyond what I
already put in to the survey.  You are the only one that I recall that has
asked for this in the five years that I have been running this survey. 

Best regards,

-marshall

Marshall Breeding
Editor, Library Technology Guides
http://www.librarytechnology.org
marshall.breeding at librarytechnology.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: MJ Ray [mailto:mjr at phonecoop.coop] 
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Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] ILS Perceptions survey (Marshall Breeding)

"Marshall Breeding" <marshall.breeding at librarytechnology.org>
> I do hope that all libraries using Koha will respond to the survey.  
> The survey forms are linked to each library's entry in the 
> lib-web-cats directory, so you will need to submit an entry if your 
> library is not already represented.  A large number of libraries using 
> Koha are already represented, but I'm sure that there are many still
missing. See:

Hi Marshall.  Usual requests.  Please could you decouple the outdated
one-to-one relationship between LMSes and support companies?

And would you release (some subset of) the data as Open Access, Free and
Open Source Software in a nice ready-to-analyse format this year?

It would be great to see an Open survey which reflected the reality of the
new LMS support landscape.  Maybe one of the above in 2011, one in 2012?

Thanks,
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