Discuss your experience with online survey tools. If you’ve never used any before, do you see that changing in light of this method? How does your library typically survey its patrons? Do you see that changing in light of anything covered here? Why or why not? And regarding live audience survey tools such as PollEverywhere, do you see a use for such tools in your library?
I have never used or set up a poll using any of the online surveys mentioned in the method. I think that for some libraries, it could be worth it to set up a survey to connect to their patrons. I imagine that in some of the bigger library systems, it is hard to find out what the community is feeling about the materials, services, and programs that the library is offering. For that kind of library system, I think that using these tools would be very helpful. For our library, however, we could probably more effectively find out this information with a paper survey. I am not sure that using these tools would be effective for our library. For our storytimes, we usually offer a survey for the parents to fill out after the storytime is over, and I think that it is an effective way of getting an idea of what the parents think about what their child/children have gotten from the storytime. I am not sure that we would get the same feedback if the storytime is offered online through any of these tools. I think it is better to ask about the effectiveness of the program while it is fresh on the memories of the patrons.
Create a free account with one of the four traditional online survey tools, create a short survey, and either link to it or embed it in your blog post for this method.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZRV3QC
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