Top 5 tips for librarians creating surveys

October 23, 2024

This post was fun to write. Come for the practical tips, stay for my flaming-hot take on cross-posting things to listservs.

Three things are certain in this world: death, taxes, and librarians sending out surveys. We are a patron-focused profession, and we crave user feedback. Moreover, some of us yearn for peer feedback for articles we write or hypotheses we test.

When you create a survey—if you haven’t yet, it’s just a matter of time—there are a few things you should keep in mind. These tips will improve your survey and help make it more likely that people will respond.

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I write occasional posts for LibTech Insights, a blog about technology in academic libraries from Choice, an ACRL/ALA publisher.