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Portlad State Uiversity Cotributors Collee Cook Texas A&M Uiversity Fred Heath Uiversity of Texas Bruce Thompso Texas A&M Uiversity MaShaa Davis Associatio of Research Libraries Martha Kyrillidou Associatio of Research Libraries Gary Roebuck Associatio of Research Libraries Associatio of Research Libraries / Texas A&M Uiversity www.libqual.org All All
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LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 3 of 5 1 Itroductio 1.1 Ackowledgemets This otebook cotais iformatio from the 2008 admiistratio of the LibQUAL+ protocol. The material o the followig pages is draw from the aalysis of resposes from the participatig istitutios collected i 2008. The LibQUAL+ project requires the skills of a dedicated group. We would like to thak several members of the LibQUAL+ team for their key roles i the developmet of this service. From Texas A&M Uiversity, the qualitative leadership of Yvoa Licol has bee key to the project's itegrity. The behid-the-scees roles of Bill Chollet ad others from the library Systems ad Traiig uits were also formative i the early years. From the Associatio of Research Libraries, we are appreciative of the past cotributios of Cosuella Askew, Richard Groves, Amy Hoseth, Mary Jackso, Joatha Sousa, ad Bey Yu. A New Measures iitiative of this scope is possible oly as the collaborative effort of may libraries. To the directors ad liaisos at all participatig libraries goes the largest measure of gratitude. Without your commitmet, the developmet of LibQUAL+ would ot have bee possible. We would like to exted a special thak you to all admiistrators at the participatig cosortia ad libraries that are makig this project happe effectively across various istitutios. We would like to ackowledge the role of the Fud for the Improvemet of Post-secodary Educatio (FIPSE), U.S. Departmet of Educatio, which provided grat fuds of $48,368 over a three-year period (2001-03). We would also like to ackowledge the support of the Natioal Sciece Foudatio (NSF) for its grat of $245,737 over a three-year period (2002-04) to adapt the LibQUAL+ istrumet for use i the sciece, math, egieerig, ad techology educatio digital library commuity, a assessmet tool i developmet ow called DigiQUAL. We would like to express our thaks for the fiacial support that has eabled the researchers egaged i this project to exceed all of our expectatios i stated goals ad objectives ad deliver a remarkable assessmet tool to the library commuity. Collee Cook Texas A&M Uiversity MaShaa Davis Associatio of Research Libraries Fred Heath Uiversity of Texas Martha Kyrillidou Associatio of Research Libraries Bruce Thompso Texas A&M Uiversity Gary Roebuck Associatio of Research Libraries All All
Page 4 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 1.2 LibQUAL+ : A Project from StatsQUAL I would persoally like to say a word about the developmet of LibQUAL+ over the last few years ad to thak the people that have bee ivolved i this effort. LibQUAL+ would ot have bee possible without the may people who have offered their time ad costructive feedback over the years for the cause of improvig library services. I a sese, LibQUAL+ has built three kids of parterships: oe betwee ARL ad Texas A&M Uiversity, a secod oe amog the participatig libraries ad their staff, ad a third oe comprisig the thousads of users who have provided their valuable survey resposes over the years. LibQUAL+ was iitiated i 2000 as a experimetal project for bechmarkig perceptios of library service quality across 13 ARL libraries uder the leadership of Fred Heath ad Collee Cook, the both at Texas A&M Uiversity Libraries. It matured quickly ito a stadard assessmet tool that has bee applied at more tha 1,000 libraries, collectig iformatio o more tha half a millio library users. Each year sice 2003, we have had more tha 200 libraries coduct LibQUAL+, more tha 100,000 users respod, ad aually more tha 50,000 users provide rich commets about the ways they use their libraries. There have bee umerous advacemets over the years. I 2005, libraries were able to coduct LibQUAL+ over a two sessio period (Sessio I: Jauary to May ad Sessio II: July to December). The LibQUAL+ servers were moved from Texas A&M Uiversity to a exteral hostig facility uder the ARL brad kow as StatsQUAL. Through the StatsQUAL gateway we will cotiue to provide iovative tools for libraries to assess ad maage their eviromets i the comig years. I 2006, we added the LibQUAL+ Aalytics (for more iformatio, see Sectio 1.6). LibQUAL+ fidigs have egaged thousads of librarias i discussios with colleagues ad ARL o what these fidigs mea for local libraries, for their regios, ad for the future of libraries across the globe. Cosortia have supported their members participatio i LibQUAL+ i order to offer a iformed uderstadig of the chages occurrig i their shared eviromet. Summary highlights have bee published o a aual basis showcasig the rich array of iformatio available through LibQUAL+ : LibQUAL+ 2007 Survey Highlights <http://www.libqual.org/documets/admi/libqualhighlights2007_full_supplemetal.pdf> <http://www.libqual.org/documets/admi/libqualhighlights2007_full.pdf> LibQUAL+ 2006 Survey Highlights <http://www.libqual.org/documets/admi/libqualhighlights2006.pdf> LibQUAL+ 2005 Survey Highlights <http://www.libqual.org/documets/admi/libqualhighlights20051.pdf> LibQUAL+ 2004 Survey Highlights <http://www.libqual.org/documets/admi/execsummary%201.3.pdf> LibQUAL+ 2003 Survey Highlights <http://www.libqual.org/documets/admi/execsummary1.1_locked.pdf> All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 5 of 5 Summary published reports have also bee made available: <http://www.arl.org/pubscat/libqualpubs.html> The socio-ecoomic ad techological chages that are takig place aroud us are affectig the ways users iteract with libraries. We used to thik that libraries could provide reliable ad reasoably complete access to published ad scholarly output, yet we ow kow from LibQUAL+ that users have a isatiable appetite for cotet. No library ca ever have sufficiet iformatio cotet that would come close to satisfyig this appetite. The team at ARL ad beyod has worked hard to urture the commuity that has bee built aroud LibQUAL+. We believe that closer collaboratio ad sharig of resources will brig libraries earer to meetig the ever chagig eeds of their demadig users. It is this spirit of collaboratio ad a willigess to view the world of libraries as a orgaic, itegrated, ad cohesive eviromet that ca brig forth major iovatios ad break ew groud. Iovatio ad aggressive marketig of the role of libraries i beefitig their commuities stregthe libraries. I a example of collaboratio, LibQUAL+ participats are sharig their results withi the LibQUAL+ commuity with a opeess that evertheless respects the cofidetiality of each istitutio ad its users. LibQUAL+ participats are actively shapig our Share Fair gatherigs, our i-perso evets, ad our uderstadig of how the collected data ca be used. LibQUAL+ offers a rich resource that ca be viewed usig may leses, should be iterpreted i multiple ways, ad is a powerful tool libraries ca use to uderstad their eviromet. LibQUAL+ is a commuity mechaism for improvig libraries ad I hope we see a icreasig umber of libraries utilizig it successfully i the years to come. I look forward to your cotiuig active ivolvemet i helpig us uderstad the may ways we ca improve library services. With warm regards, Martha Kyrillidou Director, ARL Statistics ad Service Quality Programs All All
Page 6 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 1.3 LibQUAL+ : Defiig ad Promotig Library Service Quality What is LibQUAL+? LibQUAL+ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, uderstad, ad act upo users opiios of service quality. These services are offered to the library commuity by the Associatio of Research Libraries (ARL). The program s ceterpiece is a rigorously tested Web-based survey budled with traiig that helps libraries assess ad improve library services, chage orgaizatioal culture, ad market the library. The goals of LibQUAL+ are to: Foster a culture of excellece i providig library service Help libraries better uderstad user perceptios of library service quality Collect ad iterpret library user feedback systematically over time Provide libraries with comparable assessmet iformatio from peer istitutios Idetify best practices i library service Ehace library staff members aalytical skills for iterpretig ad actig o data As of 2007, more tha 1,000 libraries have participated i the LibQUAL+ survey, icludig Caadia govermet libraries, colleges ad uiversities, commuity colleges, health scieces ad hospital/medical libraries, law libraries, public libraries, ad secodary school libraries---some through various cosortia, others as idepedet participats. LibQUAL+ has expaded iteratioally, with participatig istitutios i Caada, the U.K. ad other Europea coutries as well as Australia ad South Africa. It has bee traslated ito a umber of laguages, icludig Afrikaas, Chiese (Traditioal), Daish, Dutch, Fiish, Frech, Germa, Japaese, Norwegia, Spaish, Swedish, ad Welsh. The growig LibQUAL+ commuity of participats ad its extesive dataset are rich resources for improvig library services. How will LibQUAL+ beefit your library? Library admiistrators have successfully used LibQUAL+ survey data to idetify best practices, aalyze deficits, ad effectively allocate resources. Beefits to participatig istitutios iclude: Istitutioal data ad reports that eable you to assess whether your library services are meetig user expectatios Aggregate data ad reports that allow you to compare your library s performace with that of peer istitutios Workshops desiged for participats Access to a olie library of LibQUAL+ research articles The opportuity to become part of a commuity iterested i developig excellece i library services LibQUAL+ gives your library users a chace to tell you where your services eed improvemet so you ca respod to ad better maage their expectatios. You ca develop services that better meet your users expectatios by comparig your library s data with that of peer istitutios ad examiig the practices of those libraries that are evaluated highly by their users. How is the LibQUAL+ survey coducted? All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 7 of 5 Coductig the LibQUAL+ survey requires little techical expertise o your part. You ivite your users to take the survey by distributig the URL for your library s Web form via e-mail. Respodets complete the survey form ad their aswers are set to a cetral database. The data are aalyzed ad preseted to you i reports describig your users desired, perceived, ad miimum expectatios of service. What are the origis of the LibQUAL+ survey? The LibQUAL+ survey evolved from a coceptual model based o the SERVQUAL istrumet, a popular tool for assessig service quality i the private sector. The Texas A&M Uiversity Libraries ad other libraries used modified SERVQUAL istrumets for several years; those applicatios revealed the eed for a ewly adapted tool that would serve the particular requiremets of libraries. ARL, represetig the largest research libraries i North America, partered with Texas A&M Uiversity Libraries to develop, test, ad refie LibQUAL+. This effort was supported i part by a three-year grat from the U.S. Departmet of Educatio s Fud for the Improvemet of Post-Secodary Educatio (FIPSE). All All
Page 8 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 1.4 Web Access to Data Data summaries from the 2008 iteratio of the LibQUAL+ survey will be available to project participats olie via the LibQUAL+ survey maagemet site: <http://www.libqual.org/maage/results/idex.cfm> All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page of 5 1.5 Explaatio of Charts ad Tables A workig kowledge of how to read ad derive relevat iformatio from the tables ad charts used i your LibQUAL+ results otebook is essetial. I additio to the explaatory text below, you ca fid a self-paced tutorial o the project web site at: <http://www.libqual.org/iformatio/tools/idex.cfm> Both the olie tutorial ad the text below are desiged to help you uderstad your survey results ad preset ad explai those results to others at your library. Radar Charts Radar charts are commoly used throughout the followig pages to display both aggregate results ad results from idividual istitutios. Basic iformatio about radar charts is outlied below, ad additioal descriptive iformatio is icluded throughout this otebook. What is a radar chart? Radar charts are useful whe you wat to look at several differet factors all related to oe item. Sometimes called spider charts or polar charts, radar charts feature multiple axes or spokes alog which data ca be plotted. Variatios i the data are show by distace from the ceter of the chart. Lies coect the data poits for each series, formig a spiral aroud the ceter. I the case of the LibQUAL+ survey results, each axis represets a differet survey questio. Questios are idetified by a code at the ed of each axis. The three dimesios measured by the survey are grouped together o the radar charts, ad each dimesio is labeled: Affect of Service (AS), Iformatio Cotrol (IC), ad Library as Place (LP). Radar charts are used i this otebook to preset the item summaries (the results from the 22 core survey questios). How to read a radar chart Radar charts are a effective way to show stregths ad weakesses graphically by eablig you to observe symmetry or uiformity of data. Poits close to the ceter idicate a low value, while poits ear the edge idicate a high value. Whe iterpretig a radar chart, it is importat to check each idividual axis as well as the chart s overall shape i order to gai a complete uderstadig of its meaig. You ca see how much data fluctuates by observig whether the spiral is smooth or has spikes of variability. Respodets miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality are plotted o each axis of your LibQUAL+ radar charts. The resultig gaps betwee the three levels are shaded i blue, yellow, gree, ad red. Geerally, a radar graph shaded blue ad yellow idicates that users perceptios of service fall withi the zoe of tolerace ; the distace betwee miimum expectatios ad perceptios of service quality is shaded i blue, ad the distace betwee their desired ad perceived levels of service quality is show i yellow. Whe users perceptios fall outside the zoe of tolerace, the graph will iclude areas of red ad gree shadig. If the distace betwee users miimum expectatios ad perceptios of service delivery is represeted i red, that idicates a egative service adequacy gap score. If the distace betwee the desired level of service ad perceptios of service delivery is represeted i gree, that idicates a positive service superiority gap score. All All
Page 10 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU s The mea of a collectio of umbers is their arithmetic average, computed by addig them up ad dividig by their total umber. I this otebook, meas are provided for users miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality for each item o the LibQUAL+ survey. s are also provided for the geeral satisfactio ad iformatio literacy outcomes questios. Stadard Deviatio Stadard deviatio is a measure of the spread of data aroud their mea. The stadard deviatio () depeds o calculatig the average distace of each score from the mea. I this otebook, stadard deviatios are provided for every mea preseted i the tables. Service Adequacy The service adequacy gap score is calculated by subtractig the miimum score from the perceived score o ay give questio, for each user. Both meas ad stadard deviatios are provided for service adequacy gap scores o each item of the survey, as well as for each of the three dimesios of library service quality. I geeral, service adequacy is a idicator of the extet to which you are meetig the miimum expectatios of your users. A egative service adequacy gap score idicates that your users perceived level of service quality is below their miimum level of service quality ad is prited i red. Service Superiority The service superiority gap score is calculated by subtractig the desired score from the perceived score o ay give questio, for each user. Both meas ad stadard deviatios are provided for service superiority gap scores o each item of the survey, as well as for each of the three dimesios of library service quality. I geeral, service superiority is a idicator of the extet to which you are exceedig the desired expectatios of your users. A positive service superiority gap score idicates that your users perceived level of service quality is above their desired level of service quality ad is prited i gree. Sectios with charts ad tables are omitted from the followig pages whe there are three or fewer idividuals i a specific group. I cosortia otebooks, istitutio type summaries are ot show if there is oly oe library for a istitutio type. Idividual library otebooks are produced separately for each participat. All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 11 of 5 1.6 A Few Words about LibQUAL+ 2008 Libraries today cofrot escalatig pressure to demostrate impact. As Culle (2001) has oted, Academic libraries are curretly facig their greatest challege sice the explosio i tertiary educatio ad academic publishig which bega after World War II... [T]he emergece of the virtual uiversity, supported by the virtual library, calls ito questio may of our basic assumptios about the role of the academic library, ad the security of its future. Retaiig ad growig their customer base, ad focusig more eergy o meetig their customers' expectatios is the oly way for academic libraries to survive i this volatile eviromet. (pp. 662-663) Today, "A measure of library quality based solely o collectios has become obsolete" (Nitecki, 16, p. 181). These cosideratios have prompted the Associatio of Research Libraries (ARL) to sposor a umber of "New Measures" iitiatives. The New Measures efforts represet a collective determiatio o the part of the ARL membership to augmet the collectio-cout ad fiscal iput measures that comprise the ARL Idex ad ARL Statistics, to date the most cosistetly collected statistics for research libraries, with outcome measures such as assessmets of service quality ad satisfactio. Oe New Measures Iitiative is the LibQUAL+ service (Cook, Heath & B. Thompso, 2002, 2003; Heath, Cook, Kyrillidou & Thompso, 2002; Thompso, Cook & Heath, 2003; Thompso, Cook & Thompso, 2002). Withi a service-quality assessmet model, "oly customers judge quality; all other judgmets are essetially irrelevat" (Zeithaml, Parasurama, Berry, 10, p. 16). LibQUAL+ was modeled o the 22-item SERVQUAL tool developed by Parasurama, Berry ad Zeithaml (Parasurama, Berry & Zeithaml, 11). However, SERVQUAL has bee show to measure some issues ot particularly relevat i libraries, ad to ot measure some issues of cosiderable iterest to library users. The fial 22 LibQUAL+ items were developed through several iteratios of studies ivolvig a larger pool of 56 items. The selectio of items employed i the LibQUAL+ survey has bee grouded i the users' perspective as revealed i a series of qualitative studies ivolvig a larger pool of items. The items were idetified followig qualitative research iterviews with studet ad faculty library users at several differet uiversities (Cook, 2002a; Cook & Heath, 2001). LibQUAL+ is ot just a list of 22 stadardized items. First, LibQUAL+ offers libraries the ability to select five optioal local service quality assessmet items. Secod, the survey icludes a commets box solicitig ope-eded user views. Almost half of the people respodig to the LibQUAL+ survey provide valuable feedback through the commets box. These ope-eded commets are helpful for ot oly (a) uderstadig why users provide certai ratigs, but also (b) uderstadig what policy chages users suggest, because may users feel the obligatio to be costructive. Participatig libraries are fidig the real-time access to user commets oe of the most useful devices i challegig library admiistrators to thik outside of the box ad develop iovative ways for improvig library services. LibQUAL+ is oe of 11 ways of listeig to users, called a total market survey. As Berry (15) explaied, Whe well desiged ad executed, total market surveys provide a rage of iformatio umatched by ay other method... A critical facet of total market surveys (ad the reaso for usig the word 'total') is the measuremet of competitors' service quality. This [also] requires All All
Page 12 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU usig o-customers i the sample to rate the service of their suppliers. (p. 37) Although (a) measurig perceptios of both users ad o-users, ad (b) collectig perceptios data with regard to peer istitutios ca provide importat isights Berry recommeded usig multiple listeig methods ad emphasized that "Ogoig data collectio... is a ecessity. Trasactioal surveys, total market surveys, ad employee research should always be icluded" (Berry, 15, p. 54). Score Scalig "Perceived" scores o the 22 LibQUAL+ core items, the three subscales, ad the total score, are all scaled 1 to, with beig the most favorable. Both the gap scores ("Adequacy" = "Perceived" - "Miimum"; "Superiority" = "Perceived" - "Desired") are scaled such that higher scores are more favorable. Thus, a adequacy gap score of +1.2 o a item, subscale, or total score is better tha a adequacy gap score of +1.0. A superiority gap score of -0.5 o a item, subscale, or total score is better tha a superiority gap score of -1.0. Usig LibQUAL+ Data I some cases LibQUAL+ data may cofirm prior expectatios ad library staff will readily formulate actio plas to remedy perceived deficiecies. But i may cases library decisio-makers will seek additioal iformatio to corroborate iterpretatios or to better uderstad the dyamics uderlyig user perceptios. For example, oce a iterpretatio is formulated, library staff might review recet submissios of users to suggestio boxes to evaluate whether LibQUAL+ data are cosistet with iterpretatios, ad the suggestio box data perhaps also provide user suggestios for remedies. User focus groups also provide a powerful way to explore problems ad potetial solutios. A uiversity-wide retreat with a small-group facilitated discussio to solicit suggestios for improvemet is aother follow-up mechaism that has bee implemeted i several LibQUAL+ participatig libraries. Ideed, the ope-eded commets gathered as part of LibQUAL+ are themselves useful i fleshig out isights ito perceived library service quality. Respodets ofte use the commets box o the survey to make costructive suggestios o specific ways to address their cocers. Qualitative aalysis of these commets ca be very fruitful. I short, LibQUAL+ is ot 22 items. LibQUAL+ is 22 items plus a commets box! Cook (2002b) provided case study reports of how staff at various libraries have employed data from prior reditios of LibQUAL+. Heath, Kyrillidou, ad Askew edited a special issue of the Joural of Library Admiistratio (Vol. 40, No. 3/4) reportig additioal case studies o the use of LibQUAL+ data to aid the improvemet of library service quality. This special issue has also bee published by Hayworth Press as a moograph. These publicatios ca be ordered by sedig a email to libqual@arl.org. 2008 Data Screeig The 22 LibQUAL+ core items measure perceptios of total service quality, as well as three sub-dimesios of perceived library quality: (a) Service Affect ( items, such as "willigess to help users"); (b) Iformatio Cotrol (8 items, such as "a library Web site eablig me to locate iformatio o my ow" ad "prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I require for my work"); ad (c) Library as Place (5 items, such as "a getaway for study, learig, or research"). All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 13 of 5 However, as happes i ay survey, i 2008 some users provided icomplete data, icosistet data, or both. I compilig the summary data reported here, several criteria were used to determie which respodets to omit from these aalyses. 1. Complete Data. The Web software that presets the 22 core items moitors whether a give user has completed all items. O each of these items, i order to submit the survey successfully, users must provide a ratig of (a) miimally-acceptable service, (b) desired service, ad (c) perceived service or rate the item "ot applicable" ("N/A"). If these coditios are ot met, whe the user attempts to leave the Web page presetig the 22 core items, the software shows the user where missig data are located, ad requests complete data. The user may of course abado the survey without completig all the items. Oly records with complete data o the 22 items ad where respodets chose a "user group," if applicable, were retaied i summary statistics. 2. Excessive "N/A" Resposes. Because some istitutios provided access to a lottery drawig for a icetive (e.g., a ipod) for completig the survey, some users might have selected "N/A" choices for all or most of the items rather tha reportig their actual perceptios. Or, some users may have views o such a arrow rage of quality issues that their data are ot very iformative. I this survey it was decided that records cotaiig more tha 11 "N/A" resposes should be elimiated from the summary statistics. 3. Excessive Icosistet Resposes. O the LibQUAL+ survey, user perceptios ca be iterpreted by locatig "perceived" results withi the "zoe of tolerace" defied by data from the "miimum" ad the "desired" ratigs. For example, a mea "perceived" ratig of 7.5 o the 1-to- ( is highest) scale might be very good if the mea "desired" ratig is 6.0. But a 7.5 perceptio score is less satisfactory if the mea "desired" ratig is 8.6, or if the mea "miimum" ratig is 7.7. Oe appealig feature of such a "gap measuremet model" is that the ratig format provides a check for icosistecies (i.e., score iversios) i the respose data (Thompso, Cook & Heath, 2000). Logically, o a give item the "miimum" ratig should ot be higher tha the "desired" ratig o the same item. For each user a cout of such icosistecies, ragig from "0" to "22," was made. Records cotaiig more tha logical icosistecies were elimiated from the summary statistics. LibQUAL+ Norms A importat way to iterpret LibQUAL+ data is by examiig the zoes of tolerace for items, the three subscale scores, ad the total scores. However, the collectio of such a huge umber of user perceptios has afforded us with the uique opportuity to create orms tables that provide yet aother perspective o results. Norms tell us how scores "stack up" withi a particular user group. For example, o the 1-to- ( is highest) scale, users might provide a mea "perceived" ratig of 6.5 o a item, "the prited library materials I eed for my work." The same users might provide a mea ratig o "miimum" for this item of 7.0, ad a mea service-adequacy "gap score" (i.e., "perceived" mius "miimum") of -0.5. The zoe-of-tolerace perspective suggests that this library is ot doig well o this item, because "perceived" falls below "miimally acceptable." This is importat to kow. But there is also a secod way (i.e., ormatively) to iterpret the data. Both perspectives ca be valuable. A total market survey admiistered to more tha 100,000 users, as was LibQUAL+ i 2004 ad 2005, affords the All All
Page 14 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU opportuity to ask ormative questios such as, "How does a mea 'perceived' score of 6.5 stack up amog all idividual users who completed the survey?", or "How does a mea service-adequacy gap score of -0.5 stack up amog the gap scores of all istitutios participatig i the survey?" If 70 percet of idividual users geerated "perceived" ratigs lower tha 6.5, 6.5 might ot be so bad. Ad if 0 percet of istitutios had service-adequacy gap scores lower tha -0.5 (e.g., -0.7, -1.1), a mea gap score of -0.5 might actually be quite good. Users simply may have quite high expectatios i this area. They may also commuicate their dissatisfactio by ratig both (a) "perceived" lower ad (b) "miimum" higher. This does ot mea that a service-adequacy gap score of -0.5 is ecessarily a cause for celebratio. But a service-adequacy gap score of -0.5 o a item for which 0 percet of istitutios have a lower gap score is a differet gap score tha the same -0.5 for a differet item i which 0 percet of istitutios have a higher service-adequacy gap score. Oly orms give us isight ito this comparative perspective. Ad a local user-satisfactio survey (as agaist a total market survey) ca ever provide this isight. Commo Miscoceptio Regardig Norms. A ufortuate ad icorrect miscoceptio is that orms make value statemets. Norms do ot make value statemets! Norms make fact statemets. If you are a forest rager, ad you make $25,000 a year, a orms table might iform you of the fact that you make less moey tha 85 percet of the adults i the Uited States. But if you love the outdoors, you do ot care very much about moey, ad you are very service-orieted, this fact statemet might ot be relevat to you. Or, i the cotext of your values, you might iterpret this fact as beig quite satisfactory. LibQUAL+ Norms Tables. Of course, the fact statemets made by the LibQUAL+ orms are oly valuable if you care about the dimesios beig evaluated by the measure. More backgroud o LibQUAL+ orms is provided by Cook ad Thompso (2001), ad Cook, Heath ad B. Thompso (2002). We do ot publish orms o a aual basis ay more as research idicates a remarkable stability of orms over time (see Thompso, Cook ad Kyrillidou, 2005). LibQUAL+ orms for earlier years are available o the Web at the followig URLs: <http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~bthompso/libq2005.htm> <http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~bthompso/libq2004.htm> Respose Rates At the America Library Associatio (ALA) Midwiter Meetig i Sa Atoio i Jauary 2000, participats were cautioed that respose rates o the fial LibQUAL+ survey would probably rage from 25-33 percet. Higher respose rates ca be realized (a) with shorter surveys that (b) are directly actio-orieted (Cook, Heath & R.L. Thompso, 2000). For example, a very high respose rate could be realized by a library director admiisterig the followig oe-item survey to users: Istructios. Please tell us what time to close the library every day. I the future we will close at whatever time receives the most votes. Should we close the library at? All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 15 of 5 (A) 10 p.m. (B) 11 p.m. (C) midight (D) 2 p.m. Lower respose rates will be expected for total market surveys measurig geeral perceptios of users across istitutios, ad whe a itetioal effort is made to solicit perceptios of both users ad o-users. Two cosideratios should gover the evaluatio of LibQUAL+ respose rates. Miimum Respose Rates. Respose rates are computed by dividig the umber of completed surveys at a istitutio by the umber of persos asked to complete the survey. However, we do ot kow the actual respose rates o LibQUAL+, because we do ot kow the correct deomiators for these calculatios. For example, give iadequacy i records at schools, we are ot sure how may e-mail addresses for users are accurate. Ad we do ot kow how may messages to ivite participatio were actually opeed. I other words, what we kow for LibQUAL+ is the "lower-boud estimate" of respose rates. For example, if 200 out of 800 solicitatios result i completed surveys, we kow that the respose rate is at least 25 percet. But because we are ot sure whether 800 e-mail addresses were correct or that 800 e-mail messages were opeed, we are ot sure that 800 is the correct deomiator. The respose rate ivolvig oly correct e-mail addresses might be 35 or 45 percet. We do't kow the exact respose rate. Represetativeess Versus Respose Rate. If 100 percet of the 800 people we radomly selected to complete our survey did so, the we ca be assured that the results are represetative of all users. But if oly 25 percet of the 800 users complete the survey, the represetativeess of the results is ot assured. Nor is urepresetativeess assured. Represetativeess is actually a matter of degree. Ad several istitutios each with 25 percet respose rates may have data with differet degrees of represetativeess. We ca ever be sure about how represetative our data are as log as ot everyoe completes the survey. But we ca at least address this cocer by comparig the demographic profiles of survey completers with the populatio (Thompso, 2000). At which uiversity below would oe feel more cofidet that LibQUAL+ results were reasoably represetative? Alpha Uiversity Completers (=200 / 800) Populatio (N=16,000) Geder Geder Studets 53% female Studets 51% female Faculty 45% female Faculty 41% female Disciplies Disciplies Liberal Arts 40% Liberal Arts 35% Sciece 15% Sciece 20% Other 45% Other 45% Omega Uiversity Completers (=200 / 800) Populatio (N=23,000) Geder Geder Studets 35% female Studets 5% female Faculty 65% female Faculty 43% female Disciplies Disciplies Liberal Arts 40% Liberal Arts 15% Sciece 20% Sciece 35% Other 40% Other 50% All All
Page 16 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU The persuasiveess of such aalyses is greater as the umber of variables used i the comparisos is greater. The LibQUAL+ software has bee expaded to automate these comparisos ad to output side-by-side graphs ad tables comparig sample ad populatio profiles for give istitutios. Show these to people who questio result represetativeess. However, oe cautio is i order regardig percetages. Whe total is small for a istitutio, or withi a particular subgroup, huge chages i percetages ca result from very small shifts i umbers. LibQUAL+ Iteractive Statistics I additio to the istitutio ad group otebooks ad the orms, LibQUAL+ had provided a experimetal iteractive eviromet for data aalysis where istitutios could mie istitutioal data for peer comparisos i 2003 ad 2004. The LibQUAL+ Iteractive Statistics for these years icludes graphig capabilities for all LibQUAL+ scores (total ad dimesio scores) for each idividual istitutio or groups of istitutios. Graphs may be geerated i either JPEG format for presetatio purposes or flash format that icludes more detailed iformatio for olie browsig. Tables may also be produced i a iteractive fashio for oe or multiple selectios of variables for all idividual istitutios or groups of participatig istitutios. Our goal is to itegrate this capability ito the LibQUAL+ Aalytics. LibQUAL+ Aalytics The LibQUAL+ Aalytics is a ew tool that permits participats to dyamically create istitutio-specific tables ad charts for differet subgroups ad across years. The curret iterface grats access to 2004 to the most curret statistical data ad has two sectios: (a) Istitutio Explorer icludes a summary of all questios ad dimesio meas for ay combiatio of user groups ad disciplies. (b) Logitudial Aalysis allows participats to perform logitudial comparisos of their data across survey years. These two fuctioalities are oly the begiig of our effort to provide more customized aalysis. More features are i developmet based o feedback we receive from our participats. Survey Data I additio to the otebooks, the orms, the Iteractive Statistics, ad the Aalytics, LibQUAL+ also makes available (a) raw survey data i SPSS at the request of participatig libraries, (b) raw survey data i Excel for all participatig libraries, ad (c) survey commets that ca be dowloaded to Excel or text format from the Web site.. Additioal traiig usig the SPSS data file is available as a follow-up workshop ad through the Service Quality Evaluatio Academy (see below), which also offers traiig o aalyzig qualitative data. We cotiually aalyze ad publish fidigs from these data that highlight importat aspects of the fidigs (see Thompso, Kyrillidou & Cook, 2008) as well as ew commuities ad types of libraries that have joied the project (see Thompso, Kyrillidou & Cook, 2007). ARL Service Quality Evaluatio Academy LibQUAL+ is a importat tool i the New Measures toolbox that librarias ca use to improve service quality. But, eve more fudametally, the LibQUAL+ iitiative is more tha a sigle tool. LibQUAL+ is a effort to All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 17 of 5 create a culture of data-drive service quality assessmet ad service quality improvemet withi libraries. Such a culture must be iformed by more tha oe tool, ad by more tha oly oe of the 11 ways of listeig to users. To facilitate a culture of service quality assessmet, ad to facilitate more iformed usage of LibQUAL+ data, the Associatio of Research Libraries has created the ARL Service Quality Evaluatio Academy. For more iformatio about the Academy, see the LibQUAL+ evets page at <http://www.libqual.org/evets/idex.cfm> The itesive, five-day Academy teaches both qualitative ad quatitative skills that library staff ca use to evaluate ad geerate service-quality assessmet iformatio. The Academy is oe more resource for library staff who would like to develop ehaced service-quality assessmet skills. For more iformatio, about LibQUAL+ or the Associatio of Research Libraries Statistics ad Measuremet program, see: <http://www.libqual.org/> <http://www.statsqual.org/> <http://www.arl.org/stats/> Refereces Berry, Leoard L. O Great Service: A Framework For Actio. New York: The Free Press, 15. Cook, Collee C., Fred Heath, ad Bruce Thompso. LibQUAL+ from the UK Perspective. 5th Northumbria Iteratioal Coferece Proceedigs, Durham, UK, July, 2003. Cook, Collee C. (Guest Ed.). Library Decisio-Makers Speak to Their Uses of Their LibQUAL+ Data: Some LibQUAL+ Case Studies. Performace Measuremet ad Metrics, 3 (2002b). Cook, Collee C. A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Idetificatio ad Measuremet of Academic Library Service Quality Costructs: LibQUAL+. (PhD diss., Texas A&M Uiversity, 2001) Dissertatio Abstracts Iteratioal, 62 (2002A): 225A (Uiversity Microfilms No. AAT3020024). Cook, Collee C., ad Fred Heath. Users' Perceptios of Library Service Quality: A LibQUAL+ Qualitative Study. Library Treds, 4 (2001): 548-84. Cook, Collee C., Fred Heath, ad Bruce Thompso. Zoes of tolerace i Perceptios of Library Service Quality: A LibQUAL+ Study. portal: Libraries ad the Academy, 3 (2003): 113-123. Cook, Collee C., Fred Heath ad Bruce Thompso.. Score Norms for Improvig Library Service Quality: A LibQUAL+ Study. portal: Libraries ad the Academy, 2 (2002): 13-26. Cook, Collee C., Fred Heath, ad Russell L. Thompso. A Meta-Aalysis of Respose Rates i Web- or Iteret-based Surveys. Educatioal ad Psychological Measuremet, 60 (2000): 821-36. All All
Page 18 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Cook, Collee C., ad Bruce Thompso. Psychometric Properties of Scores from the Web-based LibQUAL+ Study of Perceptios of Library Service Quality. Library Treds, 4 (2001): 585-604. Culle, Rowea. Perspectives o User Satisfactio Surveys. Library Treds, 4 (2002): 662-86. Heath, Fred, Martha Kyrillidou. ad Cosuella A. Askew (Guest Eds.). Libraries Report o Their LibQUAL+ Fidigs: From Data to Actio. Joural of Library Admiistratio 40 (3/4) (2004). Heath, Fred, Collee C. Cook, Martha Kyrillidou, ad Bruce Thompso. ARL Idex ad Other Validity Correlates of LibQUAL+ Scores. portal: Libraries ad the Academy, 2 (2002): 27-42. Kyrillidou, Martha. The Globalizatio of Library Assessmet ad the Role of LibQUAL+. From Library Sciece to Iformatio Sciece: Studies i Hoor of G. Kakouri (Athes, Greece: Tipothito-Giorgos Dardaos, 2005). [I Greek] Kyrillidou, Martha. Library Assessmet As A Collaborative Eterprise. Resource Sharig ad Iformatio Networks, 18 ½ (2005-2006): 73-87. Kyrillidou, Martha. Measurig Library Service Quality: A Perceived Outcome for Libraries. This chapter appears i Revisitig Outcomes Assessmet i Higher Educatio. Edited by Peter Hero, Robert E. Duga, ad Cady Schwartz (Westport, CT: Library Ulimited, 2006): 351-66. Kyrillidou, Martha, Terry Olshe, Fred Heath, Claude Boelly, ad Jea-Pierre Côte. Cross-Cultural Implemetatio of LibQUAL+ : the Frech Laguage Experiece. 5th Northumbria Iteratioal Coferece Proceedigs (Durham, UK, 2003): 13-. Kyrillidou, Martha ad Mark Youg. ARL Statistics 2005-06. Washigto, DC: Associatio of Research Libraries, 2008. Nitecki, Dauta, A. Chagig the Cocept ad Measure of Service Quality i Academic Libraries. The Joural of Academic Librariaship, 22 (16): 181-0. Parasurama, A., Leoard Berry, ad Valerie Zeithaml. Refiemet ad Reassessmet of the SERVQUAL Scale. Joural of Retailig, 67 (11): 420-50. Thompso, Bruce. Represetativeess Versus Respose Rate: It Ai't the Respose Rate!. Paper preseted at the Associatio of Research Libraries (ARL) Measurig Service Quality Symposium o the New Culture of Assessmet: Measurig Service Quality, Washigto, DC, October 2002. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Fred Heath. The LibQUAL+ Gap Measuremet Model: The Bad, he Ugly, ad the Good of Gap Measuremet. Performace Measuremet ad Metrics, 1 (2002): 165-78. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Fred Heath. Structure of Perceptios of Service Quality i Libraries: A LibQUAL+ Study. Structural Equatio Modelig, 10 (2003): 456-464. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Russell L. Thompso. Reliability ad Structure of LibQUAL+ Scores: Measurig Perceived Library Service Quality. portal: Libraries ad the Academy, 2 (2002): 3-12. All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 1 of 5 Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Martha Kyrillidou. "Library Users' Service Desires: A LibQUAL+ Study." The Library Quarterly, 78(1) (2008): 1-18. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Martha Kyrillidou. "User Library Service Expectatios i Health Sciece vs. Other Settigs: A LibQUAL+ Study". Health Iformatio ad Libraries Joural, 24(Supplemet 1) (2007): 38-45. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Martha Kyrillidou. Usig Localized Survey Items to Augmet Stadardized Bechmarkig Measures: A LibQUAL+ Study. portal: Libraries ad the Academy, 6(2) (2006): 21-30. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Martha Kyrillidou. How Ca You Evaluate the Itegrity of Your Library Assessmet Data: Itercotietal LibQUAL+ Aalysis Used as Cocrete Heuristic Examples. Paper preseted at the Library Assessmet Coferece: Buildig Effective, Sustaiable, ad Practical Assessmet, Charlottesville, VA, August 4-6, 2006. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Martha Kyrillidou. Stability of Library Service Quality Bechmarkig Norms Across Time ad Cohorts: A LibQUAL+ Study. Paper preseted at the Asia-Pacific Coferece of Library ad Iformatio Educatio ad Practice (A-LIEP), Sigapore, April 3-4 2006. <http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~bthompso/libq2005.htm#1>. Thompso, Bruce, Collee C. Cook, ad Martha Kyrillidou. Cocurret Validity of LibQUAL+ Scores: What Do LibQUAL+ Scores Measure? Joural of Academic Librariaship, 31 (2005): 517-22. Zeithaml, Valerie, A. Parasurama, ad Leoard L. Berry. Deliverig Quality Service: Balacig Customer Perceptios ad Expectatios. New York: Free Press, 10. All All
Page 20 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 1.7 Library Statistics for PSU The statistical data below were provided by the participatig istitutio i the olie Represetativeess* sectio. Defiitios for these items ca be foud i the ARL Statistics: <http://www.arl.org/stats/>. Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe statistical data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Volumes held Jue 30, 2007: Volumes added durig year - Gross: Total umber of curret serials received: Total library expeditures (i U): Persoel - professioal staff, FTE: Persoel - support staff, FTE: 1,31,880 26,705 5,013 $,585,64 30 38 1.8 Cotact Iformatio for PSU The perso below served as the istitutio's primary LibQUAL+ liaiso durig this survey implemetatio. Name: Title: Address: Phoe: Email: Jocely Duffy Library Executive Assistat 51 SW Hall Portlad, OR 7201-3220 USA 5037254126 jduffy@pdx.edu All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 21 of 5 2 Demographic Summary for PSU 2.1 Respodets by User Group User Group Respodet Respodet % Udergraduate First year Secod year Third year Fourth year Fifth year ad above No-degree 73 5.46% 8 7.34% 170 12.72% 17 14.75% 113 8.46% 11 0.82% Sub Total: 662 4.55% Graduate Masters Doctoral No-degree or Udecided 331 24.78% 73 5.46% 22 1.65% Sub Total: 426 31.8% Faculty Adjuct Faculty Assistat Professor Associate Professor Lecturer Professor Other Academic Status 37 2.77% 34 2.54% 31 2.32% 6 0.45% 36 2.6% 32 2.40% Sub Total: 176 13.17% Library Staff Admiistrator Maager, Head of Uit Public Services Systems Techical Services Other 0 0.00% 2 0.15% 2 0.15% 0 0.00% 4 0.30% 1 0.07% Sub Total: 0.67% Staff Research Staff Other staff positios 6 0.45% 57 4.27% Sub Total: 63 4.72% Total: 1,336 100.00% All All
Page 22 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 2.2 Populatio ad Respodets by User Sub-Group The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by sub-group (e.g. First year, Masters, Professor), based o user resposes to the demographic questios at the ed of the survey istrumet ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. The chart maps the percetage of respodets for each user subgroup i red. Populatio percetages for each user subgroup are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each user sub-group for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. First year (Udergraduate) Secod year (Udergraduate) Third year (Udergraduate) Fourth year (Udergraduate) Fifth year ad above (Udergraduate) No-degree (Udergraduate) User Sub-Group Masters (Graduate) Doctoral (Graduate) No-degree or Udecided (Graduate) Adjuct Faculty (Faculty) Assistat Professor (Faculty) Associate Professor (Faculty) Lecturer (Faculty) Professor (Faculty) Other Academic Status (Faculty) Respodet Profile by User Sub-Group Populatio Profile by User Sub-Group 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 Percetage All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 23 of 5 User Sub-Group Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % First year (Udergraduate) 2,832 10.30% 73 5.78% 4.53% Secod year (Udergraduate) 2,13 10.60% 8 7.75% 2.84% Third year (Udergraduate) 4,642 16.88% 170 13.45% 3.44% Fourth year (Udergraduate) 6,174 22.46% 17 15.5% 6.87% Fifth year ad above (Udergraduate) 1,378 5.01% 113 8.4% -3.3% No-degree (Udergraduate) 2,576.37% 11 0.87% 8.50% Masters (Graduate) 4,086 14.86% 331 26.1% -11.32% Doctoral (Graduate) 47 1.81% 73 5.78% -3.7% No-degree or Udecided (Graduate) 1,015 3.6% 22 1.74% 1.5% Adjuct Faculty (Faculty) 563 2.05% 37 2.3% -0.88% Assistat Professor (Faculty) 214 0.78% 34 2.6% -1.1% Associate Professor (Faculty) 218 0.7% 31 2.45% -1.66% Lecturer (Faculty) 4 0.01% 6 0.47% -0.46% Professor (Faculty) 25 0.4% 36 2.85% -1.1% Other Academic Status (Faculty) 121 0.44% 32 2.53% -2.0% Total: 27,42 100.00% 1,264 100.00% 0.00% All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff)
Page 24 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 2.3 Populatio ad Respodets by Stadard Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the LibQUAL+ stadard disciplie categories. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Agriculture / Evirometal Studies Architecture Busiess Commuicatios / Jouralism Educatio Egieerig / Computer Sciece Geeral Studies Disciplie Health Scieces Humaities Law Military / Naval Sciece Other Performig & Fie Arts Sciece / Math Social Scieces / Psychology Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 Percetage All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 25 of 5 Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % Agriculture / Evirometal Studies 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Architecture 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Busiess 3,448 14.63% 130 10.28% 4.35% Commuicatios / Jouralism 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Educatio 1,031 4.38% 72 5.70% -1.32% Egieerig / Computer Sciece 2,060 8.74% 10 8.62% 0.12% Geeral Studies 2,07 8.0% 134 10.60% -1.70% Health Scieces 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Humaities 3,31 14.3% 161 12.74% 1.65% Law 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Military / Naval Sciece 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Other 400 1.70% 54 4.27% -2.57% Performig & Fie Arts 1,860 7.8% 52 4.11% 3.78% Sciece / Math 2,36 10.05% 21 17.33% -7.27% Social Scieces / Psychology 3,364 14.28% 22 23.10% -8.83% Udecided 3,545 15.04% 41 3.24% 11.80% Total: 23,565 100.00% 1,264 100.00% 0.00% All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff)
Page 26 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 2.4 Populatio ad Respodets by Customized Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the customized disciplie categories supplied by the participatig library. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) College of Urba & Public Affairs Disciplie Graduate School of Educatio Library Other School of Busiess Admiistratio School of Fie & Performig Arts School of Social Work Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Percetage All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 27 of 5 Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece 2,060 8.74% 10 8.62% 0.12% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) 3,31 14.3% 161 12.74% 1.65% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) 2,36 10.05% 21 17.33% -7.27% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) 2,583 10.6% 208 16.46% -5.4% College of Urba & Public Affairs 2,07 8.0% 134 10.60% -1.70% Graduate School of Educatio 1,031 4.38% 72 5.70% -1.32% Library 30 0.13% 3 0.24% -0.11% Other 370 1.57% 50 3.6% -2.3% School of Busiess Admiistratio 3,448 14.63% 130 10.28% 4.35% School of Fie & Performig Arts 1,860 7.8% 52 4.11% 3.78% School of Social Work 781 3.31% 84 6.65% -3.33% Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes 0 0.00% 1 0.08% -0.08% Udecided 3,545 15.04% 41 3.24% 11.80% Total: 23,565 100.00% 1,264 100.00% 0.00% All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff, Staff)
Page 28 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 2.5 Respodet Profile by Age This table shows a breakdow of survey respodets by age; both the umber of respodets () ad the percetage of the total umber of respodets represeted by each age group are displayed. Age Respodets Respodets % Uder 18 4 0.30% 18-22 315 23.74% 23-30 485 36.55% 31-45 344 25.2% 46-65 166 12.51% Over 65 13 0.8% Total: 1,327 100.00% 2.6 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles by Sex The table below shows a breakdow of survey respodets by sex, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. The umber ad percetage for each sex are give for the geeral populatio ad for survey respodets. *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Sex Populatio N Populatio % Respodets Respodets % Male 12,76 45.22% 485 36.55% Female 15,721 54.78% 842 63.45% Total: 28,67 100.00% 1,327 100.00% All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 2 of 5 3 Survey Item Summary for PSU 3.1 Core Questios Summary This radar chart shows the aggregate results for the core survey questios. Each axis represets oe questio. A code to idetify each questio is displayed at the outer poit of each axis. While questios for each dimesio of library service quality are scattered radomly throughout the survey, o this chart they are grouped ito sectios: Affect of Service, Iformatio Cotrol, ad Library as Place. O each axis, respodets' miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality are plotted, ad the resultig "gaps" betwee the three levels (represetig service adequacy or service superiority) are shaded i blue, yellow, gree, ad red. The followig two tables show mea scores ad stadard deviatios for each questio, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) AS-7 AS-6 AS-5 Affect of Service AS-8 AS-4 AS- AS-3 IC-1 AS-2 IC-2 AS-1 3 4 5 6 7 8 IC-3 LP-5 IC-4 LP-4 Iformatio Cotrol IC-5 IC-6 LP-2 LP-3 Library as Place IC-7 IC-8 LP-1 Perceived Less Tha Miimum Perceived Greater Tha Miimum Perceived Less Tha Desired Perceived Greater Tha Desired All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
Page 30 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 5.56 7.4 6.44 0.87-1.05 1,257 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 5.53 7.11 6.3 0.86-0.72 1,240 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 6.51 7.7 7.10 0.5-0.86 1,26 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 6.57 7.3 7.10 0.54-0.82 1,263 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 6.73 8.06 7.24 0.51-0.82 1,250 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 6.21 7.66 6.6 0.75-0.6 1,243 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 6.47 7.8 7.06 0.5-0.82 1,23 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 6.44 7.2 7.12 0.6-0.80 1,25 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 6.48 7.8 7.03 0.55-0.85 1,12 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 6.72 8.36 7.04 0.31-1.33 1,287 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 6.85 8.32 6. 0.14-1.33 1,313 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 6.48 7.86 6.6 0.22-1.16 1,223 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 6.82 8.30 7.05 0.22-1.25 1,305 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 6.83 8.23 7.10 0.27-1.13 1,28 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 6.7 8.24 7.02 0.23-1.21 1,308 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 6.7 8.24 7.15 0.36-1.0 1,287 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 6.7 8.36 6.7 0.00-1.3 1,247 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 6.0 7.86 6.32 0.23-1.54 1,272 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 6.50 7.88 6.80 0.30-1.0 1,251 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 6.40 8.01 6.73 0.33-1.28 1,22 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 6.32 7.4 6.78 0.46-1.16 1,256 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 5.6 7.27 6.66 0.7-0.61 1,133 study Overall: 6.46 7.6 6.0 0.45-1.05 1,327 All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 31 of 5 ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 1.80 1.54 1.65 1.84 1.7 1,257 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 1.8 1.77 1.76 1.1 1.84 1,240 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 1.78 1.37 1.63 1.6 1.75 1,26 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 1.64 1.28 1.52 1.76 1.5 1,263 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 1.70 1.28 1.54 1.85 1.60 1,250 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 1.82 1.45 1.52 1.82 1.60 1,243 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 1.72 1.30 1.50 1.81 1.53 1,23 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 1.76 1.35 1.57 1.83 1.57 1,25 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 1.71 1.33 1.55 1.83 1.62 1,12 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 1.76 1.18 1.72 2.07 1.86 1,287 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 1.64 1.13 1.5 1.0 1.70 1,313 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 1.75 1.47 1.60 1. 1.83 1,223 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 1.64 1.15 1.53 1.5 1.74 1,305 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 1.62 1.18 1.51 1.0 1.62 1,28 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 1.5 1.12 1.48 1.85 1.61 1,308 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 1.57 1.10 1.41 1.76 1.51 1,287 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 1.68 1.15 1.66 2.0 1.82 1,247 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 1.81 1.4 1.81 2.27 2.23 1,272 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 1.88 1.51 1.76 2.1 2.0 1,251 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 1.78 1.30 1.75 2.14 2.02 1,22 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 1.84 1.45 1.62 2.10 1.5 1,256 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 2.02 1.83 1.71 2.18 2.11 1,133 study Overall: 1.30 0.88 1.16 1.38 1.17 1,327 All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
Page 32 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 3.2 Core Questio Dimesios Summary O the chart below, scores for each dimesio of library service quality have bee plotted graphically. The exterior bars represet the rage of miimum to desired mea scores for each dimesio. The iterior bars represet the rage of miimum to perceived mea scores (the service adequacy gap) for each dimesio of library service quality. 8 7 6 5 4 Affect of Service Iformatio Cotrol Library as Place Overall Dimesio Rage of Miimum to Desired Rage of Miimum to Perceived ("Adequacy Gap") All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 33 of 5 The followig table displays mea scores for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 6.27 7.76 6.3 0.66-0.83 1,31 Iformatio Cotrol 6.78 8.24 7.00 0.22-1.24 1,327 Library as Place 6.20 7.78 6.66 0.46-1.12 1,316 Overall: 6.46 7.6 6.0 0.45-1.05 1,327 The followig table displays stadard deviatio for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 1.45 1.10 1.30 1.47 1.2 1,31 Iformatio Cotrol 1.32 0.87 1.21 1.4 1.26 1,327 Library as Place 1.53 1.1 1.42 1.76 1.65 1,316 Overall: 1.30 0.88 1.16 1.38 1.17 1,327 All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
Page 34 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 3.3 Local Questios Summary This table shows mea scores for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 5.4 7.0 6.27 0.78-0.83 1,158 6.03 7.4 6.82 0.7-0.67 1,22 A secure ad safe place 7.12 8.24 7.44 0.32-0.7 1,277 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 6.27 7.66 6.84 0.56-0.82 1,04 6.26 7.7 7.15 0.8-0.64 1,11 This table displays the stadard deviatios for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 1.8 1.75 1.70 2.02 2.04 2.02 1.71 1.65 2.10 1.1 1,158 1,22 A secure ad safe place 1.83 1.2 1.62 2.04 1.75 1,277 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 1.76 1.45 1.47 1.81 1.64 1.88 1.51 1.52 1.87 1.63 1,04 1,11 All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 35 of 5 3.4 Geeral Satisfactio Questios Summary This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the geeral satisfactio questios: Satisfactio with Treatmet, Satisfactio with Support, ad Satisfactio with Overall Quality of Service, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the geeral satisfactio questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1-. Satisfactio Questio I geeral, I am satisfied with the way i which I am treated at the library. 7.33 1.56 1,327 I geeral, I am satisfied with library support for my learig, research, ad/or teachig eeds. 6.84 1.71 1,327 How would you rate the overall quality of the service provided by the library? 7.06 1.40 1,327 3.5 Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios Summary This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the iformatio literacy outcomes questios, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the iformatio literacy outcomes questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1- with 1 beig "strogly disagree" ad represetig "strogly agree". Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios The library helps me stay abreast of developmets i my field(s) of iterest. 5.8 1.84 1,327 The library aids my advacemet i my academic disciplie or work. 6.74 1.6 1,327 The library eables me to be more efficiet i my academic pursuits or work. 6.82 1.70 1,327 The library helps me distiguish betwee trustworthy ad utrustworthy iformatio. 5. 1.0 1,327 The library provides me with the iformatio skills I eed i my work or study. 6.38 1.76 1,327 All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
Page 36 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 3.6 Library Use Summary This chart shows a graphic represetatio of library use (both o the premises ad electroically), as well as use of o-library iformatio gateways such as Yahoo ad Google. Bars represet the frequecy with which respodets report usig these resources: Daily, Weekly, Mothly, Quarterly, or Never. The table below the chart displays the umber ad percetage of respodets who selected each optio. 100 0 80 Percetage 70 60 50 40 30 How ofte do you use resources o library premises? How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 20 10 0 Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never Frequecy Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never / % How ofte do you use resources o library premises? 11 14.3% 544 40.% 32 24.7% 225 16.6% 38 2.86% 1,327 100.00% How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? 267 20.12% 50 44.46% 301 22.68% 118 8.8% 51 3.84% 1,327 100.00% How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 72 73.25% 26 20.27% 40 3.01% 18 1.36% 28 2.11% 1,327 100.00% All (Excludig Library Staff) All (Excludig Library Staff)
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 37 of 5 4 Udergraduate Summary 4.1 Demographic Summary for Udergraduate 4.1.1 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Udergraduate by Stadard Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the LibQUAL+ stadard disciplie categories. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). Agriculture / Evirometal Studies Architecture Busiess Commuicatios / Jouralism Educatio Egieerig / Computer Sciece Geeral Studies Disciplie Health Scieces Humaities Law Military / Naval Sciece Other Performig & Fie Arts Sciece / Math Social Scieces / Psychology Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 Percetage Udergraduate Udergraduate
Page 38 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % Agriculture / Evirometal Studies 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Architecture 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Busiess 3,014 17.00% 6 14.50% 2.4% Commuicatios / Jouralism 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Educatio 61 0.34% 2 0.30% 0.04% Egieerig / Computer Sciece 1,403 7.1% 57 8.61% -0.70% Geeral Studies 1,442 8.13% 52 7.85% 0.28% Health Scieces 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Humaities 2,823 15.2% 82 12.3% 3.53% Law 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Military / Naval Sciece 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Other 265 1.4% 30 4.53% -3.04% Performig & Fie Arts 1,736.7% 36 5.44% 4.35% Sciece / Math 1,70 10.0% 134 20.24% -10.15% Social Scieces / Psychology 2,522 14.22% 134 20.24% -6.02% Udecided 2,678 15.10% 3 5.8%.21% Total: 17,734 100.00% 662 100.00% 0.00% Udergraduate Udergraduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 3 of 5 4.1.2 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Udergraduate by Customized Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the customized disciplie categories supplied by the participatig library. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) College of Urba & Public Affairs Disciplie Graduate School of Educatio Library Other School of Busiess Admiistratio School of Fie & Performig Arts School of Social Work Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 Percetage Udergraduate Udergraduate
Page 40 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece 1,403 7.1% 57 8.61% -0.70% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) 2,823 15.2% 82 12.3% 3.53% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) 1,70 10.0% 134 20.24% -10.15% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) 2,233 12.5% 123 18.58% -5.% College of Urba & Public Affairs 1,442 8.13% 52 7.85% 0.28% Graduate School of Educatio 61 0.34% 2 0.30% 0.04% Library 0 0.00% 1 0.15% -0.15% Other 265 1.4% 28 4.23% -2.74% School of Busiess Admiistratio 3,014 17.00% 6 14.50% 2.4% School of Fie & Performig Arts 1,736.7% 36 5.44% 4.35% School of Social Work 28 1.63% 11 1.66% -0.03% Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes 0 0.00% 1 0.15% -0.15% Udecided 2,678 15.10% 3 5.8%.21% Total: 17,734 100.00% 662 100.00% 0.00% Udergraduate Udergraduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 41 of 5 4.1.3 Respodet Profile for Udergraduate by Age This table shows a breakdow of survey respodets by age; both the umber of respodets () ad the percetage of the total umber of respodets represeted by each age group are displayed. Age Respodets Respodets % Uder 18 4 0.60% 18-22 302 45.62% 23-30 217 32.78% 31-45 115 17.37% 46-65 23 3.47% Over 65 1 0.15% Total: 662 100.00% 4.1.4 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Udergraduate by Sex The table below shows a breakdow of survey respodets by sex, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. The umber ad percetage for each sex are give for the geeral populatio ad for survey respodets. *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Sex Populatio N Populatio % Respodets Respodets % Male,576 46.68% 243 36.71% Female 10,3 53.32% 41 63.2% Total: 20,515 100.00% 662 100.00% Udergraduate Udergraduate
Page 42 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 4.2 Core Questios Summary for Udergraduate This radar chart shows aggregate results for the core survey questios. Each axis represets oe questio. A code to idetify each questio is displayed at the outer poit of each axis. While questios for each dimesio of library service quality are scattered radomly throughout the survey, o this chart they are grouped ito sectios: Affect of Service, Library as Place, ad Iformatio Cotrol. O each axis, respodets' miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality are plotted, ad the resultig "gaps" betwee the three levels (represetig service adequacy or service superiority) are shaded i blue, yellow, gree, ad red. The two followig tables show mea scores ad stadard deviatios for each questio, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) AS-7 AS-6 AS-5 Affect of Service AS-8 AS-4 AS- AS-3 IC-1 AS-2 IC-2 AS-1 3 4 5 6 7 8 IC-3 LP-5 IC-4 LP-4 Iformatio Cotrol IC-5 IC-6 LP-2 LP-3 Library as Place IC-7 IC-8 LP-1 Perceived Less Tha Miimum Perceived Greater Tha Miimum Perceived Less Tha Desired Perceived Greater Tha Desired Udergraduate Udergraduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 43 of 5 ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 5.34 7.3 6.30 0.6-1.0 626 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 5.26 6.4 6.21 0.4-0.74 622 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 6.35 7.8 6.3 0.58-0.6 648 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 6.37 7.83 7.03 0.66-0.80 625 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 6.58 8.00 7.17 0.5-0.83 620 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 6.11 7.67 6.2 0.81-0.75 616 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 6.30 7.81 7.00 0.70-0.81 608 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 6.30 7.82 7.04 0.74-0.78 625 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 6.31 7.83 6. 0.68-0.83 566 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 6.40 8.20 6.0 0.50-1.30 63 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 6.58 8.16 6.85 0.27-1.31 653 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 6.34 7.82 6.80 0.45-1.02 616 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 6.56 8.15 7.07 0.51-1.08 647 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 6.72 8.18 7.15 0.43-1.03 651 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 6.62 8.17 6.5 0.32-1.22 64 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 6.66 8.17 7.11 0.45-1.05 641 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 6.77 8.21 7.07 0.30-1.14 615 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 6.1 8.08 6.47 0.28-1.60 655 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 6.60 8.06 6.4 0.34-1.12 651 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 6.44 8.14 6.80 0.36-1.34 658 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 6.46 8.16 6.0 0.45-1.26 643 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 5.88 7.58 6.0 1.02-0.68 614 study Overall: 6.33 7.3 6.88 0.55-1.05 662 Udergraduate Udergraduate
Page 44 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 1.81 1.57 1.65 1.86 1.82 626 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 1.7 1.83 1.76 1.6 1.0 622 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 1.81 1.42 1.73 2.05 1.80 648 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 1.65 1.28 1.54 1.84 1.65 625 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 1.70 1.34 1.5 1.2 1.67 620 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 1.83 1.43 1.53 1.87 1.55 616 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 1.75 1.37 1.55 1.83 1.56 608 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 1.81 1.41 1.66 1.1 1.63 625 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 1.73 1.37 1.60 1.3 1.70 566 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 1.84 1.30 1.80 2.10 1.6 63 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 1.67 1.24 1.68 1. 1.82 653 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 1.78 1.45 1.55 1.6 1.75 616 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 1.6 1.23 1.47 1.85 1.6 647 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 1.62 1.17 1.56 1.3 1.64 651 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 1.65 1.17 1.56 1.6 1.72 64 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 1.61 1.17 1.46 1.76 1.51 641 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 1.74 1.25 1.63 1.5 1.72 615 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 1.72 1.26 1.84 2.22 2.12 655 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 1.7 1.32 1.82 2.23 2.06 651 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 1.81 1.26 1.82 2.22 2.07 658 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 1.77 1.24 1.65 2.11 1.87 643 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 1.3 1.57 1.72 2.25 2.00 614 study Overall: 1.31 0.2 1.21 1.44 1.22 662 Udergraduate Udergraduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 45 of 5 4.3 Core Questio Dimesios Summary for Udergraduate O the chart below, scores for each dimesio of library service quality have bee plotted graphically. The exterior bars represet the rage of miimum to desired mea scores for each dimesio. The iterior bars represet the rage of miimum to perceived mea scores (the service adequacy gap) for each dimesio of library service quality. 8 7 6 5 4 Affect of Service Iformatio Cotrol Library as Place Overall Dimesio Rage of Miimum to Desired Rage of Miimum to Perceived ("Adequacy Gap") Udergraduate Udergraduate
Page 46 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU The followig table displays mea scores for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 6.0 7.68 6.83 0.74-0.85 658 Iformatio Cotrol 6.58 8.13 6. 0.41-1.15 662 Library as Place 6.32 8.00 6.7 0.47-1.21 662 Overall: 6.33 7.3 6.88 0.55-1.05 662 The followig table displays stadard deviatio for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 1.44 1.15 1.34 1.52 1.33 658 Iformatio Cotrol 1.35 0.4 1.24 1.50 1.30 662 Library as Place 1.44 0. 1.46 1.78 1.60 662 Overall: 1.31 0.2 1.21 1.44 1.22 662 Udergraduate Udergraduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 47 of 5 4.4 Local Questios Summary for Udergraduate This table shows mea scores for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 5.64 7.34 6.46 0.82-0.88 618 5.86 7.48 6.73 0.87-0.75 618 A secure ad safe place 7.0 8.26 7.4 0.40-0.77 654 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 6.25 7.71 6.2 0.67-0.7 56 6.14 7.77 7.0 0.5-0.68 51 This table displays the stadard deviatios for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 1.86 1.62 1.74 2.05 1. 2.03 1.72 1.72 2.23 2.07 618 618 A secure ad safe place 1.83 1.26 1.66 2.14 1.77 654 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 1.71 1.3 1.44 1.77 1.5 1.8 1.52 1.56 1.4 1.70 56 51 Udergraduate Udergraduate
Page 48 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 4.5 Geeral Satisfactio Questios Summary for Udergraduate This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the geeral satisfactio questios: Satisfactio with Treatmet, Satisfactio with Support, ad Satisfactio with Overall Quality of Service, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the geeral satisfactio questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1-. Satisfactio Questio I geeral, I am satisfied with the way i which I am treated at the library. 7.2 1.62 662 I geeral, I am satisfied with library support for my learig, research, ad/or teachig eeds. 6.3 1.68 662 How would you rate the overall quality of the service provided by the library? 7.04 1.40 662 4.6 Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios Summary for Udergraduate This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the iformatio literacy outcomes questios, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the iformatio literacy outcomes questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1- with 1 beig "strogly disagree" ad represetig "strogly agree". Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios The library helps me stay abreast of developmets i my field(s) of iterest. 5.8 1.7 662 The library aids my advacemet i my academic disciplie or work. 6.68 1.66 662 The library eables me to be more efficiet i my academic pursuits or work. 6.7 1.72 662 The library helps me distiguish betwee trustworthy ad utrustworthy iformatio. 6.13 1.86 662 The library provides me with the iformatio skills I eed i my work or study. 6.51 1.73 662 Udergraduate Udergraduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 4 of 5 4.7 Library Use Summary for Udergraduate 100 This chart shows a graphic represetatio of library use (both o the premises ad electroically), as well as use of o-library iformatio gateways such as Yahoo ad Google. Bars represet the frequecy with which respodets report usig these resources: Daily, Weekly, Mothly, Quarterly, or Never. The table below the chart displays the umber ad percetage of respodets who selected each optio. 0 80 Percetage 70 60 50 40 30 How ofte do you use resources o library premises? How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 20 10 0 Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never Frequecy Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never / % How ofte do you use resources o library premises? 136 20.54% 307 46.37% 135 20.3% 77 11.63% 7 1.06% 662 100.00% How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? 1 13.75% 287 43.35% 177 26.74% 72 10.88% 35 5.2% 662 100.00% How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 503 75.8% 128 1.34% 14 2.11% 6 0.1% 11 1.66% 662 100.00% Udergraduate Udergraduate
Page 50 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 5 Graduate Summary 5.1 Demographic Summary for Graduate 5.1.1 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Graduate by Stadard Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the LibQUAL+ stadard disciplie categories. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). Agriculture / Evirometal Studies Architecture Busiess Commuicatios / Jouralism Educatio Egieerig / Computer Sciece Geeral Studies Disciplie Health Scieces Humaities Law Military / Naval Sciece Other Performig & Fie Arts Sciece / Math Social Scieces / Psychology Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 Percetage Graduate Graduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 51 of 5 Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % Agriculture / Evirometal Studies 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Architecture 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Busiess 372 7.30% 31 7.28% 0.03% Commuicatios / Jouralism 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Educatio 08 17.82% 51 11.7% 5.85% Egieerig / Computer Sciece 58 11.56% 43 10.0% 1.47% Geeral Studies 586 11.50% 68 15.6% -4.46% Health Scieces 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Humaities 433 8.50% 47 11.03% -2.53% Law 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Military / Naval Sciece 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Other 51 1.00% 12 2.82% -1.82% Performig & Fie Arts 72 1.41% 4 0.4% 0.47% Sciece / Math 462.07% 54 12.68% -3.61% Social Scieces / Psychology 754 14.80% 116 27.23% -12.43% Udecided 867 17.02% 0 0.00% 17.02% Total: 5,04 100.00% 426 100.00% 0.00% Graduate Graduate
Page 52 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 5.1.2 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Graduate by Customized Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the customized disciplie categories supplied by the participatig library. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) College of Urba & Public Affairs Disciplie Graduate School of Educatio Library Other School of Busiess Admiistratio School of Fie & Performig Arts School of Social Work Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Percetage Graduate Graduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 53 of 5 Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece 58 11.56% 43 10.0% 1.47% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) 433 8.50% 47 11.03% -2.53% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) 462.07% 54 12.68% -3.61% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) 20 5.6% 53 12.44% -6.75% College of Urba & Public Affairs 586 11.50% 68 15.6% -4.46% Graduate School of Educatio 08 17.82% 51 11.7% 5.85% Library 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Other 51 1.00% 12 2.82% -1.82% School of Busiess Admiistratio 372 7.30% 31 7.28% 0.03% School of Fie & Performig Arts 72 1.41% 4 0.4% 0.47% School of Social Work 464.11% 63 14.7% -5.68% Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Udecided 867 17.02% 0 0.00% 17.02% Total: 5,04 100.00% 426 100.00% 0.00% Graduate Graduate
Page 54 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 5.1.3 Respodet Profile for Graduate by Age This table shows a breakdow of survey respodets by age; both the umber of respodets () ad the percetage of the total umber of respodets represeted by each age group are displayed. Age Respodets Respodets % Uder 18 0 0.00% 18-22 11 2.58% 23-30 246 57.75% 31-45 128 30.05% 46-65 41.62% Over 65 0 0.00% Total: 426 100.00% 5.1.4 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Graduate by Sex The table below shows a breakdow of survey respodets by sex, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. The umber ad percetage for each sex are give for the geeral populatio ad for survey respodets. *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Sex Populatio N Populatio % Respodets Respodets % Male 2,38 3.4% 147 34.51% Female 3,674 60.51% 27 65.4% Total: 6,072 100.00% 426 100.00% Graduate Graduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 55 of 5 5.2 Core Questios Summary for Graduate This radar chart shows aggregate results for the core survey questios. Each axis represets oe questio. A code to idetify each questio is displayed at the outer poit of each axis. While questios for each dimesio of library service quality are scattered radomly throughout the survey, o this chart they are grouped ito sectios: Affect of Service, Library as Place, ad Iformatio Cotrol. O each axis, respodets' miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality are plotted, ad the resultig "gaps" betwee the three levels (represetig service adequacy or service superiority) are shaded i blue, yellow, gree, ad red. The two followig tables show mea scores ad stadard deviatios for each questio, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) AS-7 AS-6 AS-5 Affect of Service AS-8 AS-4 AS- AS-3 IC-1 AS-2 IC-2 AS-1 3 4 5 6 7 8 IC-3 LP-5 IC-4 LP-4 Iformatio Cotrol IC-5 IC-6 LP-2 LP-3 Library as Place IC-7 IC-8 LP-1 Perceived Less Tha Miimum Perceived Greater Tha Miimum Perceived Less Tha Desired Perceived Greater Tha Desired Graduate Graduate
Page 56 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 5.5 7.42 6.37 0.77-1.05 402 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 5.54 7.12 6.40 0.85-0.73 387 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 6.45 7.0 7.18 0.73-0.72 412 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 6.55 7.2 7.11 0.56-0.81 400 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 6.73 8.06 7.2 0.57-0.77 37 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 6.17 7.5 6.4 0.77-0.65 37 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 6.42 7.85 7.08 0.66-0.77 400 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 6.32 7.3 7.08 0.77-0.84 403 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 6.46 7.84 7.04 0.58-0.7 354 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 6.8 8.52 7.28 0.31-1.24 418 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 6.88 8.40 7.13 0.24-1.28 423 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 6.48 7.85 6.61 0.13-1.24 386 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 6.6 8.43 7.10 0.14-1.33 421 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 6.81 8.26 7.12 0.31-1.14 411 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 6.7 8.24 7.11 0.32-1.13 423 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 6.72 8.28 7.22 0.50-1.06 416 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 7.07 8.53 7.03-0.03-1.4 413 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 5.3 7.64 6.0 0.16-1.55 402 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 6.38 7.76 6.65 0.28-1.11 37 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 6.22 7.86 6.64 0.42-1.22 411 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 6.11 7.82 6.65 0.54-1.18 403 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 5.47 7.04 6.50 1.02-0.54 358 study Overall: 6.42 7.4 6.1 0.4-1.03 426 Graduate Graduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 57 of 5 ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 1.78 1.50 1.6 1.87 1.75 402 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 1.1 1.73 1.82 1.0 1.87 387 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 1.77 1.36 1.51 1.86 1.72 412 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 1.62 1.30 1.52 1.66 1.52 400 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 1.75 1.21 1.4 1.80 1.53 37 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 1.83 1.42 1.56 1.7 1.70 37 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 1.72 1.28 1.45 1.77 1.50 400 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 1.78 1.31 1.4 1.80 1.52 403 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 1.73 1.32 1.48 1.70 1.54 354 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 1.67 1.04 1.53 1.1 1.68 418 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 1.63 1.06 1.48 1.77 1.5 423 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 1.73 1.48 1.54 1.2 1.82 386 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 1.61 1.0 1.50 1.7 1.70 421 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 1.62 1.18 1.45 1.82 1.60 411 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 1.58 1.13 1.41 1.73 1.51 423 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 1.57 1.05 1.35 1.75 1.50 416 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 1.62 0. 1.58 2.07 1.75 413 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 1.6 1.70 1.80 2.41 2.45 402 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 1.2 1.62 1.67 2.13 2.12 37 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 1.82 1.36 1.67 2.04 2.01 411 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 1.87 1.48 1.58 2.10 2.02 403 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 2.05 1.3 1.63 2.07 2.27 358 study Overall: 1.32 0.85 1.08 1.31 1.11 426 Graduate Graduate
Page 58 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 5.3 Core Questio Dimesios Summary for Graduate O the chart below, scores for each dimesio of library service quality have bee plotted graphically. The exterior bars represet the rage of miimum to desired mea scores for each dimesio. The iterior bars represet the rage of miimum to perceived mea scores (the service adequacy gap) for each dimesio of library service quality. 8 7 6 5 4 Affect of Service Iformatio Cotrol Library as Place Overall Dimesio Rage of Miimum to Desired Rage of Miimum to Perceived ("Adequacy Gap") Graduate Graduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 5 of 5 The followig table displays mea scores for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 6.24 7.73 6.5 0.71-0.78 422 Iformatio Cotrol 6.84 8.32 7.08 0.24-1.24 426 Library as Place 5. 7.61 6.52 0.53-1.0 420 Overall: 6.42 7.4 6.1 0.4-1.03 426 The followig table displays stadard deviatio for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 1.47 1.05 1.25 1.43 1.26 422 Iformatio Cotrol 1.2 0.78 1.13 1.41 1.17 426 Library as Place 1.60 1.2 1.35 1.73 1.71 420 Overall: 1.32 0.85 1.08 1.31 1.11 426 Graduate Graduate
Page 60 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 5.4 Local Questios Summary for Graduate This table shows mea scores for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 5.2 6.1 6.13 0.84-0.7 367 6.07 7.42 6.8 0.81-0.54 38 A secure ad safe place 6.8 8.17 7.46 0.48-0.71 404 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 6.24 7.63 6.82 0.5-0.81 345 6.25 7.78 7.15 0.0-0.62 388 This table displays the stadard deviatios for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 1.88 1.71 1.61 1.4 2.05 1.8 1.71 1.58 1.4 1.76 367 38 A secure ad safe place 1.0 1.40 1.58 1.4 1.77 404 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 1.81 1.45 1.43 1.73 1.58 1.84 1.46 1.48 1.87 1.60 345 388 Graduate Graduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 61 of 5 5.5 Geeral Satisfactio Questios Summary for Graduate This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the geeral satisfactio questios: Satisfactio with Treatmet, Satisfactio with Support, ad Satisfactio with Overall Quality of Service, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the geeral satisfactio questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1-. Satisfactio Questio I geeral, I am satisfied with the way i which I am treated at the library. 7.27 1.52 426 I geeral, I am satisfied with library support for my learig, research, ad/or teachig eeds. 6.81 1.68 426 How would you rate the overall quality of the service provided by the library? 7.06 1.36 426 5.6 Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios Summary for Graduate This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the iformatio literacy outcomes questios, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the iformatio literacy outcomes questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1- with 1 beig "strogly disagree" ad represetig "strogly agree". Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios The library helps me stay abreast of developmets i my field(s) of iterest. 6.03 1.81 426 The library aids my advacemet i my academic disciplie or work. 6.1 1.61 426 The library eables me to be more efficiet i my academic pursuits or work. 6.0 1.68 426 The library helps me distiguish betwee trustworthy ad utrustworthy iformatio. 5.87 1.2 426 The library provides me with the iformatio skills I eed i my work or study. 6.32 1.78 426 Graduate Graduate
Page 62 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 5.7 Library Use Summary for Graduate 100 This chart shows a graphic represetatio of library use (both o the premises ad electroically), as well as use of o-library iformatio gateways such as Yahoo ad Google. Bars represet the frequecy with which respodets report usig these resources: Daily, Weekly, Mothly, Quarterly, or Never. The table below the chart displays the umber ad percetage of respodets who selected each optio. 0 80 Percetage 70 60 50 40 30 How ofte do you use resources o library premises? How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 20 10 0 Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never Frequecy Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never / % How ofte do you use resources o library premises? 42.86% 176 41.31% 112 26.2% 78 18.31% 18 4.23% 426 100.00% How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? 123 28.87% 202 47.42% 74 17.37% 21 4.3% 6 1.41% 426 100.00% How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 300 70.42% 2 21.60% 14 3.2% 7 1.64% 13 3.05% 426 100.00% Graduate Graduate
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 63 of 5 6 Faculty Summary 6.1 Demographic Summary for Faculty 6.1.1 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Faculty by Stadard Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the LibQUAL+ stadard disciplie categories. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). Agriculture / Evirometal Studies Architecture Busiess Commuicatios / Jouralism Educatio Egieerig / Computer Sciece Geeral Studies Disciplie Health Scieces Humaities Law Military / Naval Sciece Other Performig & Fie Arts Sciece / Math Social Scieces / Psychology Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 Percetage Faculty Faculty
Page 64 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % Agriculture / Evirometal Studies 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Architecture 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Busiess 62 8.41% 3 1.70% 6.71% Commuicatios / Jouralism 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Educatio 62 8.41% 1 10.80% -2.38% Egieerig / Computer Sciece 68.23% 5.11% 4.11% Geeral Studies 6.36% 14 7.5% 1.41% Health Scieces 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Humaities 135 18.32% 32 18.18% 0.14% Law 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Military / Naval Sciece 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Other 84 11.40% 12 6.82% 4.58% Performig & Fie Arts 52 7.06% 12 6.82% 0.24% Sciece / Math 117 15.88% 31 17.61% -1.74% Social Scieces / Psychology 88 11.4% 42 23.86% -11.2% Udecided 0 0.00% 2 1.14% -1.14% Total: 737 100.00% 176 100.00% 0.00% Faculty Faculty
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 65 of 5 6.1.2 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Faculty by Customized Disciplie The chart ad table below show a breakdow of survey respodets by disciplie, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio. This sectio shows survey respodets broke dow based o the customized disciplie categories supplied by the participatig library. The chart maps percetage of respodets for each disciplie i red. Populatio percetages for each disciplie are mapped i blue. The table shows the umber ad percetage for each disciplie, for the geeral populatio (N) ad for survey respodets (). College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) College of Urba & Public Affairs Disciplie Graduate School of Educatio Library Other School of Busiess Admiistratio School of Fie & Performig Arts School of Social Work Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes Udecided Respodet Profile by Disciplie Populatio Profile by Disciplie 0 4 8 12 16 20 Percetage Faculty Faculty
Page 66 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Disciplie Populatio N Populatio Respodets Respodets % % %N - % College of Egieerig & Computer Sciece 68.23% 5.11% 4.11% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Humaities) 135 18.32% 32 18.18% 0.14% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Scieces) 117 15.88% 31 17.61% -1.74% College of Liberal Arts & Scieces (Social Scieces) 60 8.14% 32 18.18% -10.04% College of Urba & Public Affairs 6.36% 14 7.5% 1.41% Graduate School of Educatio 62 8.41% 1 10.80% -2.38% Library 30 4.07% 2 1.14% 2.3% Other 54 7.33% 10 5.68% 1.65% School of Busiess Admiistratio 62 8.41% 3 1.70% 6.71% School of Fie & Performig Arts 52 7.06% 12 6.82% 0.24% School of Social Work 28 3.80% 10 5.68% -1.88% Specialized Research Ceters ad Istitutes 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% Udecided 0 0.00% 2 1.14% -1.14% Total: 737 100.00% 176 100.00% 0.00% Faculty Faculty
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 67 of 5 6.1.3 Respodet Profile for Faculty by Age This table shows a breakdow of survey respodets by age; both the umber of respodets () ad the percetage of the total umber of respodets represeted by each age group are displayed. Age Respodets Respodets % Uder 18 0 0.00% 18-22 0 0.00% 23-30 8 4.55% 31-45 72 40.1% 46-65 84 47.73% Over 65 12 6.82% Total: 176 100.00% 6.1.4 Populatio ad Respodet Profiles for Faculty by Sex The table below shows a breakdow of survey respodets by sex, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. The umber ad percetage for each sex are give for the geeral populatio ad for survey respodets. *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Sex Populatio N Populatio % Respodets Respodets % Male 1,002 47.4% 81 46.02% Female 1,108 52.51% 5 53.8% Total: 2,110 100.00% 176 100.00% Faculty Faculty
Page 68 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 6.2 Core Questios Summary for Faculty This radar chart shows aggregate results for the core survey questios. Each axis represets oe questio. A code to idetify each questio is displayed at the outer poit of each axis. While questios for each dimesio of library service quality are scattered radomly throughout the survey, o this chart they are grouped ito sectios: Affect of Service, Library as Place, ad Iformatio Cotrol. O each axis, respodets' miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality are plotted, ad the resultig "gaps" betwee the three levels (represetig service adequacy or service superiority) are shaded i blue, yellow, gree, ad red. The two followig tables show mea scores ad stadard deviatios for each questio, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) AS-7 AS-6 AS-5 Affect of Service AS-8 AS-4 AS- AS-3 IC-1 AS-2 IC-2 AS-1 3 4 5 6 7 8 IC-3 LP-5 IC-4 LP-4 Iformatio Cotrol IC-5 IC-6 LP-2 LP-3 Library as Place IC-7 IC-8 LP-1 Perceived Less Tha Miimum Perceived Greater Tha Miimum Perceived Less Tha Desired Perceived Greater Tha Desired Faculty Faculty
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 6 of 5 ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 6.14 7.85 7.07 0.3-0.78 16 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 6.35 7.62 6.7 0.62-0.65 170 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 7.10 8.30 7.57 0.47-0.73 173 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 7.05 8.15 7.38 0.33-0.77 176 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 7.0 8.25 7.43 0.34-0.82 173 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 6.50 7.64 7.22 0.73-0.42 16 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 7.06 8.15 7.30 0.23-0.85 172 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 7.03 8.15 7.51 0.4-0.63 171 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 7.11 8.14 7.1 0.08-0.4 155 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 7.22 8.57 6. -0.23-1.5 174 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 7.51 8.62 7.1-0.32-1.43 175 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 6.81 7. 6.43-0.38-1.56 162 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 7.34 8.53 6.4-0.40-1.58 175 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 7.20 8.28 6.5-0.25-1.33 167 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 7.2 8.42 7.14-0.16-1.28 174 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 7.2 8.40 7.20-0.0-1.20 16 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 7.44 8.56 6.52-0.2-2.04 16 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 5. 7.43 6.17 0.18-1.26 156 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 6.14 7.3 6.58 0.44-0.82 147 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 6.55 7.1 6.66 0.12-1.25 161 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 6.23 7.42 6.61 0.38-0.81 154 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 5.10 6.23 5.4 0.84-0.2 115 study Overall: 6.85 8.04 6. 0.14-1.05 176 Faculty Faculty
Page 70 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 1.61 1.58 1.42 1.55 1.78 16 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 1.78 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.52 170 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 1.5 1.1 1.44 1.74 1.51 173 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 1.58 1.2 1.44 1.58 1.51 176 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 1.57 1.15 1.48 1.63 1.34 173 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 1.74 1.61 1.41 1.47 1.33 16 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 1.4 1.13 1.33 1.63 1.35 172 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 1.44 1.18 1.36 1.48 1.32 171 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 1.48 1.21 1.55 1.4 1.42 155 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 1.50 0.5 1.80 2.18 1.2 174 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 1.41 0.76 1.48 1.72 1.41 175 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 1.62 1.56 1.0 2.05 2.12 162 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 1.40 1.02 1.75 2.07 1.5 175 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 1.47 1.20 1.47 1.82 1.62 167 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 1.31 0.2 1.43 1.72 1.44 174 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 1.28 0.3 1.42 1.70 1.52 16 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 1.42 0.0 1.6 2.31 2.13 16 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 1.81 1.71 1.75 2.17 2.24 156 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 2.14 1.4 1.75 2.23 2.1 147 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 1.64 1.31 1.68 2.10 1.88 161 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 1.7 1.88 1.62 2.04 2.06 154 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 2.24 2.2 1.68 2.21 2.2 115 study Overall: 1.16 0.84 1.15 1.21 1.03 176 Faculty Faculty
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 71 of 5 6.3 Core Questio Dimesios Summary for Faculty O the chart below, scores for each dimesio of library service quality have bee plotted graphically. The exterior bars represet the rage of miimum to desired mea scores for each dimesio. The iterior bars represet the rage of miimum to perceived mea scores (the service adequacy gap) for each dimesio of library service quality. 8 7 6 5 4 Affect of Service Iformatio Cotrol Library as Place Overall Dimesio Rage of Miimum to Desired Rage of Miimum to Perceived ("Adequacy Gap") Faculty Faculty
Page 72 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU The followig table displays mea scores for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 6.82 8.02 7.2 0.47-0.73 176 Iformatio Cotrol 7.28 8.43 6.4-0.34-1.4 176 Library as Place 6.10 7.35 6.4 0.3-0.86 171 Overall: 6.85 8.04 6. 0.14-1.05 176 The followig table displays stadard deviatio for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 1.28 0. 1.22 1.24 1.10 176 Iformatio Cotrol 1.12 0.76 1.30 1.48 1.26 176 Library as Place 1.63 1.50 1.46 1.7 1.76 171 Overall: 1.16 0.84 1.15 1.21 1.03 176 Faculty Faculty
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 73 of 5 6.4 Local Questios Summary for Faculty This table shows mea scores for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 5.16 6.43 5.72 0.56-0.71 123 6.36 7.5 6.7 0.62-0.62 156 A secure ad safe place 7.40 8.26 7.35-0.05-0.2 156 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 6.42 7.53 6.60 0.18-0.4 131 6.5 7.75 7.41 0.81-0.35 155 This table displays the stadard deviatios for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 1. 2.15 1.66 2.15 2.23 1. 1.6 1.58 1.82 1.4 123 156 A secure ad safe place 1.65 1.23 1.57 1.78 1.60 156 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 1.77 1.57 1.67 2.07 1.1 1.7 1.68 1.45 1.60 1.37 131 155 Faculty Faculty
Page 74 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 6.5 Geeral Satisfactio Questios Summary for Faculty This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the geeral satisfactio questios: Satisfactio with Treatmet, Satisfactio with Support, ad Satisfactio with Overall Quality of Service, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the geeral satisfactio questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1-. Satisfactio Questio I geeral, I am satisfied with the way i which I am treated at the library. 7.62 1.42 176 I geeral, I am satisfied with library support for my learig, research, ad/or teachig eeds. 6.6 1.3 176 How would you rate the overall quality of the service provided by the library? 7.14 1.48 176 6.6 Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios Summary for Faculty This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the iformatio literacy outcomes questios, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the iformatio literacy outcomes questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1- with 1 beig "strogly disagree" ad represetig "strogly agree". Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios The library helps me stay abreast of developmets i my field(s) of iterest. 6.08 2.05 176 The library aids my advacemet i my academic disciplie or work. 6.70 1.82 176 The library eables me to be more efficiet i my academic pursuits or work. 6.77 1.75 176 The library helps me distiguish betwee trustworthy ad utrustworthy iformatio. 5.78 1.2 176 The library provides me with the iformatio skills I eed i my work or study. 6.10 1.77 176 Faculty Faculty
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 75 of 5 6.7 Library Use Summary for Faculty 100 This chart shows a graphic represetatio of library use (both o the premises ad electroically), as well as use of o-library iformatio gateways such as Yahoo ad Google. Bars represet the frequecy with which respodets report usig these resources: Daily, Weekly, Mothly, Quarterly, or Never. The table below the chart displays the umber ad percetage of respodets who selected each optio. 0 80 Percetage 70 60 50 40 30 How ofte do you use resources o library premises? How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 20 10 0 Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never Frequecy Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never / % How ofte do you use resources o library premises? 12 6.82% 47 26.70% 61 34.66% 4 27.84% 7 3.8% 176 100.00% How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? 50 28.41% 82 46.5% 31 17.61% 12 6.82% 1 0.57% 176 100.00% How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 128 72.73% 34 1.32% 8 4.55% 3 1.70% 3 1.70% 176 100.00% Faculty Faculty
Page 76 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 7 Library Staff Summary 7.1 Demographic Summary for Library Staff 7.1.1 Respodet Profile for Library Staff by Age This table shows a breakdow of survey respodets by age; both the umber of respodets () ad the percetage of the total umber of respodets represeted by each age group are displayed. Age Respodets Respodets % Uder 18 0 0.00% 18-22 0 0.00% 23-30 1 11.11% 31-45 1 11.11% 46-65 7 77.78% Over 65 0 0.00% Total: 100.00% 7.1.2 Respodet Profile for Library Staff by Sex The table below shows a breakdow of survey respodets by sex, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. The umber ad percetage for each sex are give for the geeral populatio ad for survey respodets. *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Sex Respodets Respodets % Male 2 22.22% Female 7 77.78% Total: 100.00% Library Staff Library Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 77 of 5 7.2 Core Questios Summary for Library Staff This radar chart shows aggregate results for the core survey questios. Each axis represets oe questio. A code to idetify each questio is displayed at the outer poit of each axis. While questios for each dimesio of library service quality are scattered radomly throughout the survey, o this chart they are grouped ito sectios: Affect of Service, Library as Place, ad Iformatio Cotrol. O each axis, respodets' miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality are plotted, ad the resultig "gaps" betwee the three levels (represetig service adequacy or service superiority) are shaded i blue, yellow, gree, ad red. The two followig tables show mea scores ad stadard deviatios for each questio, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) AS-7 AS-6 AS-5 Affect of Service AS-8 AS-4 AS- AS-3 IC-1 AS-2 IC-2 AS-1 3 4 5 6 7 8 IC-3 LP-5 IC-4 LP-4 Iformatio Cotrol IC-5 IC-6 LP-2 LP-3 Library as Place IC-7 IC-8 LP-1 Perceived Less Tha Miimum Perceived Greater Tha Miimum Perceived Less Tha Desired Perceived Greater Tha Desired Library Staff Library Staff
Page 78 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 6.50 8.38 6.00-0.50-2.38 8 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 6.63 7.38 6.63 0.00-0.75 8 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 7.67 8.56 7.33-0.33-1.22 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 7.75 8.50 7.25-0.50-1.25 8 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 7.33 8.00 6.8-0.44-1.11 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 7.44 8.33 6.78-0.67-1.56 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 7.33 8.00 7.22-0.11-0.78 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 7.8 8.33 7.44-0.44-0.8 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 7.88 8.38 7.25-0.63-1.13 8 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 6.78 8.44 7.78 1.00-0.67 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 7.63 8.75 6.63-1.00-2.13 8 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 7.38 8.00 7.13-0.25-0.88 8 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 7.00 8.00 7.00 0.00-1.00 8 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 7.44 8.22 7.00-0.44-1.22 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 7.63 8.38 6.63-1.00-1.75 8 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 7.75 8.13 7.13-0.63-1.00 8 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 6.88 7.75 7.50 0.63-0.25 8 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 7.00 8.00 6.67-0.33-1.33 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 7.25 8.00 7.63 0.38-0.38 8 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 7.00 8.22 7.00 0.00-1.22 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 7.13 8.25 7.50 0.38-0.75 8 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 6.14 7.14 6.71 0.57-0.43 7 study Overall: 7.25 8.13 7.06-0.1-1.07 Library Staff Library Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 7 of 5 ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 0.3 0.2 2.14 2.45 2.45 8 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 1.51 1.51 1.77 1.77 1.75 8 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 1.00 0.73 1.41 1.50 1.56 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 0.8 0.76 1.3 1.6 1.67 8 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 1.22 1.00 1.45 1.4 1.83 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 1.33 1.00 1.48 1.73 1.01 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 1.00 0.87 1.48 1.76 1.72 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 1.17 1.00 1.42 1.74 1.17 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 1.25 1.06 1.28 1.60 1.46 8 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 1.30 0.88 1.30 1.12 1.41 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 1.30 0.71 1.85 2.20 1.8 8 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 1.41 1.51 1.36 1.28 1.25 8 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 0.3 1.07 1.07 1.6 1.6 8 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 1.13 0.7 1.32 0.88 1.48 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 1.06 0.74 1.85 2.14 2.05 8 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 1.16 0.83 1.36 1.6 1.41 8 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 1.46 1.75 1.20 0.74 1.04 8 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 0.71 1.12 1.32 1.66 1.80 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 1.28 0.3 1.60 1.51 1.41 8 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 1.41 0.83 1.4 1.58 2.3 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 1.25 1.04 1.51 0.2 1.3 8 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 1.57 1.46 1.60 0.7 0.53 7 study Overall: 0.77 0.72 1.15 1.12 1.20 Library Staff Library Staff
Page 80 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 7.3 Core Questio Dimesios Summary for Library Staff O the chart below, scores for each dimesio of library service quality have bee plotted graphically. The exterior bars represet the rage of miimum to desired mea scores for each dimesio. The iterior bars represet the rage of miimum to perceived mea scores (the service adequacy gap) for each dimesio of library service quality. 8 7 6 5 4 Affect of Service Iformatio Cotrol Library as Place Overall Dimesio Rage of Miimum to Desired Rage of Miimum to Perceived ("Adequacy Gap") Library Staff Library Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 81 of 5 The followig table displays mea scores for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 7.38 8.18 7.01-0.38-1.17 Iformatio Cotrol 7.36 8.1 7.18-0.18-1.01 Library as Place 6.84 7.2 6.5 0.11-0.7 Overall: 7.25 8.13 7.06-0.1-1.07 The followig table displays stadard deviatio for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 0.1 0.83 1.32 1.44 1.35 Iformatio Cotrol 0.5 0.73 0.5 0.6 1.04 Library as Place 1.02 0.72 1.54 1.11 1.37 Overall: 0.77 0.72 1.15 1.12 1.20 Library Staff Library Staff
Page 82 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 7.4 Local Questios Summary for Library Staff This table shows mea scores for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 5.83 7.00 7.00 1.17 0.00 6 6.71 8.14 7.00 0.2-1.14 7 A secure ad safe place 8.22 8.78 7.56-0.67-1.22 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 6.71 7.86 6.14-0.57-1.71 7 7.44 8.22 7.22-0.22-1.00 This table displays the stadard deviatios for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 2.23 1.41 1.55 1.47 0.63 1.25 1.07 1.63 1.8 1.5 6 7 A secure ad safe place 0.7 0.44 1.01 1.12 0.7 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 1.25 0.6 2.1 1. 2.21 1.01 0.7 1.3 1.30 1.32 7 Library Staff Library Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 83 of 5 7.5 Geeral Satisfactio Questios Summary for Library Staff This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the geeral satisfactio questios: Satisfactio with Treatmet, Satisfactio with Support, ad Satisfactio with Overall Quality of Service, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the geeral satisfactio questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1-. Satisfactio Questio I geeral, I am satisfied with the way i which I am treated at the library. 6.8 2.0 I geeral, I am satisfied with library support for my learig, research, ad/or teachig eeds. 6.56 1.4 How would you rate the overall quality of the service provided by the library? 7.00 1.58 7.6 Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios Summary for Library Staff This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the iformatio literacy outcomes questios, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the iformatio literacy outcomes questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1- with 1 beig "strogly disagree" ad represetig "strogly agree". Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios The library helps me stay abreast of developmets i my field(s) of iterest. 6.8 2.20 The library aids my advacemet i my academic disciplie or work. 7.56 1.67 The library eables me to be more efficiet i my academic pursuits or work. 7.56 1.67 The library helps me distiguish betwee trustworthy ad utrustworthy iformatio. 6.78 2.05 The library provides me with the iformatio skills I eed i my work or study. 6.56 2.01 Library Staff Library Staff
Page 84 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 7.7 Library Use Summary for Library Staff 100 This chart shows a graphic represetatio of library use (both o the premises ad electroically), as well as use of o-library iformatio gateways such as Yahoo ad Google. Bars represet the frequecy with which respodets report usig these resources: Daily, Weekly, Mothly, Quarterly, or Never. The table below the chart displays the umber ad percetage of respodets who selected each optio. 0 80 Percetage 70 60 50 40 30 How ofte do you use resources o library premises? How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 20 10 0 Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never Frequecy Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never / % How ofte do you use resources o library premises? 5 55.56% 3 33.33% 1 11.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 100.00% How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? 7 77.78% 1 11.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 11.11% 100.00% How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 100.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 100.00% Library Staff Library Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 85 of 5 8 Staff Summary 8.1 Demographic Summary for Staff 8.1.1 Respodet Profile for Staff by Age This table shows a breakdow of survey respodets by age; both the umber of respodets () ad the percetage of the total umber of respodets represeted by each age group are displayed. Age Respodets Respodets % Uder 18 0 0.00% 18-22 2 3.17% 23-30 14 22.22% 31-45 2 46.03% 46-65 18 28.57% Over 65 0 0.00% Total: 63 100.00% 8.1.2 Respodet Profile for Staff by Sex The table below shows a breakdow of survey respodets by sex, based o user resposes to the demographic questios ad the demographic data provided by istitutios i the olie Represetativeess sectio*. The umber ad percetage for each sex are give for the geeral populatio ad for survey respodets. *Note: Participatig istitutios were ot required to complete the Represetativeess sectio. Whe populatio data is missig or icomplete, it is because this data was ot provided. Sex Respodets Respodets % Male 14 22.22% Female 4 77.78% Total: 63 100.00% Staff Staff
Page 86 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 8.2 Core Questios Summary for Staff This radar chart shows aggregate results for the core survey questios. Each axis represets oe questio. A code to idetify each questio is displayed at the outer poit of each axis. While questios for each dimesio of library service quality are scattered radomly throughout the survey, o this chart they are grouped ito sectios: Affect of Service, Library as Place, ad Iformatio Cotrol. O each axis, respodets' miimum, desired, ad perceived levels of service quality are plotted, ad the resultig "gaps" betwee the three levels (represetig service adequacy or service superiority) are shaded i blue, yellow, gree, ad red. The two followig tables show mea scores ad stadard deviatios for each questio, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) AS-7 AS-6 AS-5 Affect of Service AS-8 AS-4 AS- AS-3 IC-1 AS-2 IC-2 AS-1 3 4 5 6 7 8 IC-3 LP-5 IC-4 LP-4 Iformatio Cotrol IC-5 IC-6 LP-2 LP-3 Library as Place IC-7 IC-8 LP-1 Perceived Less Tha Miimum Perceived Greater Tha Miimum Perceived Less Tha Desired Perceived Greater Tha Desired Staff Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 87 of 5 ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 6.10 7.8 6.57 0.47-1.42 60 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 5.7 7.34 6.61 0.64-0.74 61 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 7.00 8.30 7.11 0.11-1.1 63 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 7.24 8.37 7.03-0.21-1.34 62 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 7.20 8.18 7.10-0.10-1.08 60 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 6.74 7.3 6.7 0.05-1.15 61 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 6.88 8.14 6.85-0.03-1.2 5 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 6.5 8.17 7.07 0.12-1.10 60 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 6.65 8.13 6.6 0.31-1.17 54 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 6.6 8.3 6.86-0.11-1.54 56 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 7.65 8.55 6.4-0.71-1.61 62 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 6.3 7.5 6.88-0.05-1.07 5 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 7.10 8.32 6.73-0.37-1.60 62 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 7.12 8.35 6.80-0.32-1.55 60 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 7.23 8.37 6.5-0.27-1.42 62 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 7.10 8.21 6.2-0.18-1.30 61 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 7.12 8.20 6.68-0.44-1.52 50 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 6.42 8.02 6.58 0.15-1.44 5 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 7.11 7.8 6.7-0.32-1.20 56 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 6.73 7.8 6.81 0.08-1.08 62 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 6.52 7.71 6.7 0.27-0.3 56 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 6.3 7.54 6.57 0.17-0.8 46 study Overall: 6.87 8.11 6.85-0.02-1.26 63 Staff Staff
Page 88 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU ID Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service AS-1 Employees who istill cofidece i users 1.87 1.20 1.5 2.08 1.72 60 AS-2 Givig users idividual attetio 2.30 1.7 1.5 2.08 1.85 61 AS-3 Employees who are cosistetly courteous 1.75 1.14 1.4 2.1 1.88 63 AS-4 Readiess to respod to users' questios 1.46 0.8 1.54 1.86 1.70 62 AS-5 Employees who have the kowledge to aswer 1.42 1.37 1.43 1.5 1.0 60 user questios AS-6 Employees who deal with users i a carig 1.82 1.4 1.47 2.21 1.88 61 fashio AS-7 Employees who uderstad the eeds of their 1.68 1.02 1.62 2.14 1.81 5 users AS-8 Willigess to help users 1.57 1.30 1.4 1. 1.7 60 AS- Depedability i hadlig users' service problems 1.72 1.20 1.5 2.12 1.86 54 Iformatio Cotrol IC-1 Makig electroic resources accessible from my 1.64 0.8 1.60 2.14 1.83 56 home or office IC-2 A library Web site eablig me to locate 1.24 0.86 1.56 1.81 1.84 62 iformatio o my ow IC-3 The prited library materials I eed for my work 1.77 1.42 1.44 2.12 1.77 5 IC-4 The electroic iformatio resources I eed 1.33 0.0 1.50 1.88 1.67 62 IC-5 Moder equipmet that lets me easily access 1.73 1.16 1.44 2.02 1.53 60 eeded iformatio IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid 1.42 1.03 1.25 1.72 1.53 62 thigs o my ow IC-7 Makig iformatio easily accessible for 1.52 1.18 1.38 1.74 1.53 61 idepedet use IC-8 Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I 1.73 1.51 1.46 2.11 1.0 50 require for my work Library as Place LP-1 Library space that ispires study ad learig 1.63 1.25 1.4 1.7 1.1 5 LP-2 Quiet space for idividual activities 1.51 1.20 1.46 2.00 1.86 56 LP-3 A comfortable ad ivitig locatio 1.53 1.17 1.72 2.07 1.4 62 LP-4 A getaway for study, learig, or research 1.7 1.55 1.47 2.26 1.4 56 LP-5 Commuity space for group learig ad group 1.86 1.72 1.75 1.0 1.73 46 study Overall: 1.22 0.80 1.15 1.52 1.2 63 Staff Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 8 of 5 8.3 Core Questio Dimesios Summary for Staff O the chart below, scores for each dimesio of library service quality have bee plotted graphically. The exterior bars represet the rage of miimum to desired mea scores for each dimesio. The iterior bars represet the rage of miimum to perceived mea scores (the service adequacy gap) for each dimesio of library service quality. 8 7 6 5 4 Affect of Service Iformatio Cotrol Library as Place Overall Dimesio Rage of Miimum to Desired Rage of Miimum to Perceived ("Adequacy Gap") Staff Staff
Page 0 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU The followig table displays mea scores for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 6.75 8.07 6.1 0.16-1.15 63 Iformatio Cotrol 7.14 8.30 6.85-0.2-1.45 63 Library as Place 6.58 7.7 6.71 0.12-1.0 63 Overall: 6.87 8.11 6.85-0.02-1.26 63 The followig table displays stadard deviatio for each dimesio of library service quality measured by the LibQUAL+ survey, where is the umber of respodets for each particular dimesio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) A complete listig of the survey questios ad their dimesios ca be foud i Appedix A. Dimesio Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority Affect of Service 1.37 0.8 1.26 1.71 1.48 63 Iformatio Cotrol 1.20 0.83 1.21 1.55 1.36 63 Library as Place 1.38 1.02 1.23 1.63 1.40 63 Overall: 1.22 0.80 1.15 1.52 1.2 63 Staff Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 1 of 5 8.4 Local Questios Summary for Staff This table shows mea scores for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 5.2 7.00 6.24 0.32-0.76 50 6.60 7.70 6.81 0.21-0.8 57 A secure ad safe place 7.65 8.38 7.10-0.56-1.2 63 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 6.3 7.4 6.57 0.18-0.2 4 6.67 8.0 6.8 0.32-1.11 57 This table displays the stadard deviatios for each of the local questios added by the idividual library or cosortium, where is the umber of respodets for each particular questio. (For a more detailed explaatio of the headigs, see the Itroductio to this otebook.) Questio Text Miimum Desired Perceived Adequacy Superiority A eviromet that facilitates group study ad problem solvig Teachig me how to locate, evaluate, ad use iformatio 1.0 2.03 1.53 1.4 2.08 2.10 1.53 1.63 2.34 1.8 50 57 A secure ad safe place 1.55 1.11 1.71 1.5 1.83 63 Maagig ad providig access to iteral kowledge (archives, documet maagemet, etc.) Librarias providig help that assists i fidig iformatio eeded ow while improvig my research skills 2.02 1.82 1.47 1.8 1.84 1.68 1.17 1.53 1.88 1.68 4 57 Staff Staff
Page 2 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU 8.5 Geeral Satisfactio Questios Summary for Staff This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the geeral satisfactio questios: Satisfactio with Treatmet, Satisfactio with Support, ad Satisfactio with Overall Quality of Service, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the geeral satisfactio questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1-. Satisfactio Questio I geeral, I am satisfied with the way i which I am treated at the library. 7.27 1.55 63 I geeral, I am satisfied with library support for my learig, research, ad/or teachig eeds. 6.62 1.64 63 How would you rate the overall quality of the service provided by the library? 7.08 1.38 63 8.6 Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios Summary for Staff This table displays the mea score ad stadard deviatio for each of the iformatio literacy outcomes questios, where is the umber of respodets for each questio. These scores are calculated from resposes to the iformatio literacy outcomes questios o the LibQUAL+ survey, i which respodets rated their levels of geeral satisfactio o a scale from 1- with 1 beig "strogly disagree" ad represetig "strogly agree". Iformatio Literacy Outcomes Questios The library helps me stay abreast of developmets i my field(s) of iterest. 6.24 1.7 63 The library aids my advacemet i my academic disciplie or work. 6.38 1.6 63 The library eables me to be more efficiet i my academic pursuits or work. 6.63 1.50 63 The library helps me distiguish betwee trustworthy ad utrustworthy iformatio. 5.84 1.8 63 The library provides me with the iformatio skills I eed i my work or study. 6.17 1.74 63 Staff Staff
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 3 of 5 8.7 Library Use Summary for Staff 100 This chart shows a graphic represetatio of library use (both o the premises ad electroically), as well as use of o-library iformatio gateways such as Yahoo ad Google. Bars represet the frequecy with which respodets report usig these resources: Daily, Weekly, Mothly, Quarterly, or Never. The table below the chart displays the umber ad percetage of respodets who selected each optio. 0 80 Percetage 70 60 50 40 30 How ofte do you use resources o library premises? How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 20 10 0 Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never Frequecy Daily Weekly Mothly Quarterly Never / % How ofte do you use resources o library premises? 1 1.5% 14 22.22% 21 33.33% 21 33.33% 6.52% 63 100.00% How ofte do you access library resources through a library Web page? 3 4.76% 1 30.16% 1 30.16% 13 20.63% 14.2% 63 100.00% How ofte do you use Yahoo(TM), Google(TM), or o-library gateways for iformatio? 41 65.08% 15 23.81% 4 6.35% 2 3.17% 1 1.5% 63 100.00% Staff Staff
Page 4 of 5 LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Appedix A: LibQUAL+ Dimesios LibQUAL+ measures dimesios of perceived library quality---that is, each survey questio is part of a broader category (a dimesio), ad scores withi those categories are aalyzed i order to derive more geeral iformatio about library users' perceptios of service. These dimesios were first based o the origial SERVQUAL survey istrumet (the framework for the LibQUAL+ survey tool; for more iformatio o the origis of LibQUAL+, go to <http://www.libqual.org/publicatios/>). The LibQUAL+ survey dimesios have evolved with each iteratio, becomig more refied ad focused for applicatio to the library cotext. Dimesios for each iteratio of the LibQUAL+ survey are outlied below. LibQUAL+ 2000 Dimesios The 2000 iteratio of the LibQUAL+ survey, which had 41 questios, measured eight separate dimesios: Assurace (the kowledge ad courtesy of employees, ad their ability to covey trust ad cofidece) Empathy (carig, idividual attetio) Library as Place (library as a sactuary/have or site for learig ad cotemplatio) Reliability (ability to perform the promised service depedably ad accurately) Resposiveess (willigess to help customers ad provide prompt service) Tagibles (appearace of physical facilities, equipmet, persoel ad commuicatios materials) Istructios/Custom Items Self-Reliace LibQUAL+ 2001 Dimesios After careful aalysis of the results from the 2000 survey, the dimesios were further refied to re-groud the SERVQUAL items i the library cotext. Four sub-dimesios resulted for the 2001 iteratio: Service Affect (ie items, such as willigess to help users ) Library as Place (five items, such as a have for quiet ad solitude ) Persoal Cotrol (six items, such as website eablig me to locate iformatio o my ow ), ad Iformatio Access (five items, such as comprehesive prit collectios ad coveiet busiess hours ) LibQUAL+ 2002 ad 2003 Dimesios For the 2002 iteratio of the LibQUAL+ survey, the dimesios were oce agai refied based o aalysis of the previous year's results. While the four dimesios were retaied, their titles were chaged slightly to more clearly represet the questios ad data. The same four dimesios were also used o the 2003 survey: Access to Iformatio Affect of Service Library as Place Persoal Cotrol LibQUAL+ 2004-2008 Dimesios After the 2003 survey was completed, factor ad reliability aalyses o the resultig data revealed that two of the All All
LibQUAL+ 2008 Survey Results - PSU Page 5 of 5 dimesios measured by the survey-access to Iformatio ad Persoal Cotrol-had collapsed ito oe. The followig three dimesios have bee measured sice the: Affect of Service, Iformatio Cotrol, ad Library as Place. I additio, three core items were elimiated from the 2003 versio of the survey, leavig 22 core items o the fial survey istrumet. The list below displays the dimesios used to preset the results i the 2008 otebooks, alog with the questios that relate to each dimesio. (Note: The questios below are those used i the College ad Uiversity implemetatio of the survey, versio.) Affect of Service [AS-1] Employees who istill cofidece i users [AS-2] Givig users idividual attetio [AS-3] Employees who are cosistetly courteous [AS-4] Readiess to respod to users questios [AS-5] Employees who have the kowledge to aswer user questios [AS-6] Employees who deal with users i a carig fashio [AS-7] Employees who uderstad the eeds of their users [AS-8] Willigess to help users [AS-] Depedability i hadlig users service problems Iformatio Cotrol [IC-1] Makig electroic resources accessible from my home or office [IC-2] A library Web site eablig me to locate iformatio o my ow [IC-3] The prited library materials I eed for my work [IC-4] The electroic iformatio resources I eed [IC-5] Moder equipmet that lets me easily access eeded iformatio [IC-6] Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to fid thigs o my ow [IC-7] Makig iformatio easily accessible for idepedet use [IC-8] Prit ad/or electroic joural collectios I require for my work Library as Place [LP-1] Library space that ispires study ad learig [LP-2] Quiet space for idividual activities [LP-3] A comfortable ad ivitig locatio [LP-4] A getaway for study, learig or research [LP-5] Commuity space for group learig ad group study All All
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