Museum, Arts, and Humanities Division's 2003 Survey

MAHD SURVEY
General Info

1.- 2.-3. Services/Activities

 Basic? Poorly OK Very well

X well

    Chapter

 34 18 8 7 1
    Annual conference
      programs 71 1 11 32 5
      bus./memb. mtg. 45 2 13 18 2
      CE opportunities 43 4 17 7 1
      MAHDness 23 2 7 18 4
      Neff Banquet 21 15 12 5
    MAHD Bulletin 75 3 6 25 6
    Prof. Networking 63 7 18 20 3
    How can we improve?
Need great programs related to museums at conference
Need to get more advanced technologically
Help local chapters add divisional sections
Have programs about practical applications to technology
Add web page
Advertise events better
Review program in light  of a librarian's entire career and the year's events
Have more chapter or networking activities
Make the bulletin more academic: publish actual papers, vs. reports; have articles on issues
Put out list of members by state or region
Get articles about our members in Information Outlook
Notify chapters about new members so they can do a better job of welcoming them
4.New activities/services
    Mentoring 26
    Recruitment 30
    Other (specify) More networking opportunities
Focus on bulletin, conference, networking; stop looking for other things to do
Add web site
Add directory of members
More recruitment
5. Participation level
    dues only 55 Note: question not understood; people marked this when they did participate in other ways
    read Bulletin 78
    attend mtgs occas'ly.
      local 17
      annual conference 19
    attend mtgs. regularly
      local 7
      annual conference 10
    comm. mbr. or officer 5
6. MAHD strengths
Camaraderie
Good programming
Being an SLA division
Good programs, workshops, and tours at conference
networking at conference
experience and diversity of membership
members are generous, open, interesting
shared experiences
Awards
Bulletin
Common connection among librarians
Focus on humanities in environment of business and technology
Possible broad appeal to other members
Reasonably regular communication to members
MAHDness
7. MAHD weaknesses No chapter activity
small number of members
low participation  -- several reasons suggested
No local networking
not enough continuing ed.
no opportunity to meet other museum librarians (in U.K.)
too much Museums and Art, not enough Humanities
lack of communication with and among members; especially electronic forms
don't feel connected
lack of immediate or electronic communication
small size puts pressure on active members
communicate more, be more outgoing
no web page or listserv
need for more marketing, recruitment
activities not related to daily work
lack of innovation
failure to welcome new members well
low profile, inactivity
8. Value most keeping up to date
programs and events
friendships
information re other libraries in field
networking and connectedness (face-to-face and electronic)
Relationship to SLA
subject matter
annual conference activities
hope division will grow, opportunity for activity
good tours at annual conference
only thing that makes SLA relevant
possibilities for career advancement through networking
may be interested in working in a museum library some day
Bulletin
affiliation with like-minded librarians
My home in SLA (LIS educator with humanities background)
Information about other museum professionals
related to my work
old Publishing div. member; when possible, try to attend author luncheon
support of the humanities
Having fun
members are welcoming
not too overspecialized like other groups
9. Satisfaction Not Neutral Satisfied Very satis.
6 28 34 9
Communication
10. Feel you belong... Poorly ok very well x well
9 43 20 2
11.- 12. New modes? Yes No
43 24
Ideas
communicate exclusively via web and e-mail, e.g., this survey
Listserv: try to get officers and members to use it; make it more active
make newsletter electronic
put up a web site
have on-line discussions
I am retired and have no e-access, but e-participation is needed by others, yet I need paper
Directory of members
Job postings
13.- 16. Bulletin
    Read regularly? yes no
75 11
    Why not? no time boring not inter'd other
4 1 1 9 most were new members
    Features desired ann. mtg. repts. Bd. minutes List of officers Chair's rept. Member news
49 31 36 48 60
        Other profiles of libraries and librarians
    Informed re activities? poorly ok very well x well
4 31 33 4
Could be more timely: could update info on a web site
Programming
18. Topics
    Internet 38
    E-publishing 41
    Library education 24
    Non-library 49
    Other cataloging and public catalogs
indexing
classification of special collection materials
web-page design (basic)
metadata schema implementation in museums
essay competitions
guest lecture series
career opportunities
networking
info management systems for museums and archives
state of the art technology
digital images resources
collection development in museum libraries
assurance MAHD members can get into MAHD events; sometimes filled up with non-MAHD'ers
management issues in  non-profit organizations
news from the humanities field, e.g., grants, contracts, appointments
copyright
Exhibits of library treasures
19.-23. Timing (Not much interest)
    Neff Brunch Lunch Dinner
1 10 9
    MAHDness Mon. eve. Other
16 4
    Bus. meeting Mon. morning Mon. afternoon Tues. morning Tues. afternoon Wed. morning Wed. aft.
4 2 7 3 3 1
    Social evenings Sun. Mon. Tues. Other
11 10 8 2 are ok
    Other programs Sun. aft. Mon. am Mon. aft. Tues. am Tues aft. Wed. AM Wed. aft.
2 1 6 4 8 5 4
Hard to avoid conflicts
conference too expensive
24. Awards Appropriate? yes Appropriate? No Publicized? yes Publicized? No
53 2 15 44
Member data
25.- 31. Info
    Age <35 36-45 46-55 56-65 >65
11 12 45 15 6
    Highest degree Doctorate Masters 6th year certif. Bachelors AA mult.MS
5 76 1 4 0 1
    No. yrs. library worker 0 - 5 years 6 - 10 years 11 - 20 years over 20 years not employed now
11 8 28 40 3
    Time worked now full time part time retired
78 7 1
    Salary now <$25K $26K - 35K $36K - 50K $51K - 65K $66K - 75K >$75K
10 12 35 10 7 7
    No. years a member
    < 5 years 5 - 10 years 11 - 15 years 16 - 25 years >25 years
      SLA 23 19 16 17 7
      MAHD 33 17 11 5 3
    Other prof. assocns. ALA 22
State asso. 9
Regional asso. 3
State media asso. 2
ACRL 3
SAA 1
SCA 1
SCIP 1
MAC 1
ARMA 1
ASIST 3
ARLIS/NA 5
CPLQ 1
VRA 2
PLA 1
ASIS 1
ALCTS 1
LITA 1
AAAS 1
AAM 1
AASLH