Admins: Share This Annual Survey of Iowa School Library Programs With Your Teacher Librarians; Survey Closes June 8

The annual Survey of Iowa School Library Programs requests information about many aspects of the school library program: staff and staff activities; library usage; program management and technology; budget and expenditures; and collections. In addition to providing school library data comparable across the state, survey results will assist schools in decision-making and goal setting within each school and district.

Each school’s Teacher Librarian should complete and submit a survey for each physical school library by June 8, 2018. If there is not a teacher librarian, please ensure that another staff person completes the survey. It will take approximately one hour to gather and compile the data necessary to complete the survey, then another 15 minutes to enter the responses into the online survey.

If you have your responses from last year, it will be easier! If you don't have the data from last year, you can look it up in this spreadsheet: Iowa School Library Survey 2016-17 Raw Data.

Survey Process

1. Download and print the Survey Prep document. This checklist suggests the data you need to gather before beginning the survey.
2. Download and print the Survey Form document (10 pages). This is the print version of the online survey, including all of the survey questions.
3. Start with the Survey Prep document. It suggests documents to gather and organize, data to collect, and some questions to reflect on. Then, with the documents and data at hand record the answers to the questions on the Survey Form.
4. After completing the Survey Form, you are ready to go to the Online Survey and enter your responses there. You will need to enter a password to access the survey. The password is: sls2018 (as in school library survey two thousand eighteen)

If you have technical questions or difficulties with the online form, ckeller@hanoverresearch.com.