So I’m on the ALA Task Force on electronic member participation, and one of our tasks is to survey the members about e-participation. I volunteered to spearhead the task, and a few other folks are chipping in. You can see the really early it-could-go-in-entirely-different-directions rough draft.
What questions should we ask? What do you wish you could tell ALA about e-participation and how would you frame the question in a survey?
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It is so important for librarians to speak up!!! I’m passing this along.
I am not sure that this is within the scope of your task force, but here goes.
The questions you have listed for the survey assume that respondents have participated in an ALA committee, task force, or other unit. I think this is very appropriate to get a sense of how electronic participation may actually be working or not working in current ALA activities. However, I wonder if you will also be gathering information from ALA members who may not have previously participated in an ALA committee, task force, or other unit. I think it would be important to know the potential impact if a formally defined means of electronic participation were available.
I believe there are many ALA members like myself who would do not have the means to attend face to face meetings or who have other legitimate reasons for not doing so and who would be very interested in participating if an electronic option were available.