TIDSR Survey Data

Eric MeyerChristine Madsen

OII19 March 2008

• Ave. time spent filling out survey: 17.5 minutes

• 83% completed the survey in under 20 min

• 714 started

• 550 completed (77%)

• 80% agreed to continue on to further questions

Demographics

Demographics

Average Age 45.3

Age Range 20-83

Degrees & Field

Awareness of Resources by Country

Have you ever published a piece based on your work in this collection?

If so, how did you cite the collection?

How did you find this resource?

How did you find this resource?

Histpop BOPCRIS BL News BL Sounds Med Backfiles

Google 33% 33% 25% 19% 37%

Prof society, discussion list or conference

25% 22% 26% 43% 27%

Library 4% 22% 32% 10% 27%

Colleague 25% 18% 11% 24% 6%

Other 13% 4% 7% 5% 2%

Student 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Campus IT 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

How do you use this resource?

How do you use this resource?

Histpop BOPCRIS BL News BL Sounds Med Backfiles

Online reference source

78% 81% 74% 66% 78%

For personal interests

35% 49% 50% 46% 27%

Download to use offline

26% 36% 40% 29% 57%

Teaching resource

30% 30% 29% 39% 27%

Manual analysis 17% 32% 38% 10% 39%Find materials to consult in person

4% 23% 18% 12% 39%

Computational analysis

30% 6% 4% 2% 10%

Reuse, remix or edit

17% 11% 9% 7% 0%

Other 4% 0% 3% 5% 6%

Attitudes towards Digitisation