Know Your Community: Survey Design For Results [Cancelled]

When: July 24 – August 20, 2023
[CANCELLED]

Where: Online & Asynchronous (see more info)

Cost: $150 (Register 2 weeks early for 10% off)

CE Credit: 1.4 CEUs/14 LEUs

Program: #307424


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An important factor in library planning is understanding your community. Surveys are a great starting point in strategic marketing research to help infuse actual community feedback into your library initiatives. This is an approachable yet significant way to determine what your members think about services, what is essential to them, and what could be improved.

This introduction course provides a comprehensive look at all stages of survey campaigns. Starting with establishing goals and an environmental scan, then the design and implementation of a survey, data analysis, and reporting, and concludes with post-report communications and user research. Course materials include templates, examples from successful campaigns from public and academic libraries, and exercises that will provide students with a survey plan ready to implement.

Topics:

  • Establishing Goals, Environmental Scan
  • Survey Design and Implementation
  • Data Analysis and Reporting
  • Advocating change, and next steps

Instructor

Kiel Cross is the Strategic Marketing Specialist at Harper College (IL). He earned an M.S. in Communications from Purdue University and earned a B.A. in Communications Management from Judson University. He has over ten years of experience in marketing for libraries. In 2019, Kiel received the Marketer of the Year Award from Library Journal for his work on a successful Library referendum. He has presented at the Wisconsin-Illinois Innovative Users Group regional conference and Illinois Library Associations’ Annual Conference. Kiel is an avid fan of graphic novels and science fiction and lives with his wife Julianne and their award-winning cat, Bob, in Palatine, Illinois.