Ariadne Magazine User Survey, Issue 26

This questionnaire will help us to evaluate Ariadne, and enable us to improve the magazine.

Please help us to evaluate Ariadne by answering the following few questions. Thank you for your time and interest.

Please use the check boxes to give one answer per question, except in Question 5 which contains its own instructions. Please use the comment boxes where longer responses or supplementary information is requested. Thank you.

1. How did you reach the Ariadne pages today?
From your own bookmark
Via a link from another site		If so, please indicate which site :
Via a search engine		If so, please indicate which search engine and your search topic

2. How many times have you accessed the Ariadne web site since it was established in January 1996?

This is the first time
2-5 times
6-10 times
More than 10 times

3. What do you think are the strengths of Ariadne?
The strengths of Ariadne are:

4. What do you think are the weaknesses of Ariadne?
The weaknesses of Ariadne are:

5. Please score each of the following features and sections on a scale of 1 (not important) to 5 (very important)


	1 (not important) - 5 (very important)
Editorials	1 2 3 4 5
Main articles	1 2 3 4 5
Get tooled up	1 2 3 4 5
Regular columns
Planet SOSIG	1 2 3 4 5
Biome	1 2 3 4 5
Eevl	1 2 3 4 5
Public Libraries	1 2 3 4 5
Search Engines	1 2 3 4 5
Web Focus	1 2 3 4 5
Web Watch	1 2 3 4 5
Metadata	1 2 3 4 5
What Is	1 2 3 4 5
At the Event	1 2 3 4 5
Newsline	1 2 3 4 5
Cartoon	1 2 3 4 5
Caption Competition	1 2 3 4 5
Book Review	1 2 3 4 5
Main articles - subject areas
Policy Papers	1 2 3 4 5
Technical	1 2 3 4 5
Text Encoding Issues	1 2 3 4 5
Project Descriptions	1 2 3 4 5
Digital Library Initiatives	1 2 3 4 5
Metadata Issues	1 2 3 4 5
Opinion Pieces	1 2 3 4 5
Interoperability Issues	1 2 3 4 5
Social Context	1 2 3 4 5
Accessibility Issues	1 2 3 4 5
Entry Level Explanations	1 2 3 4 5

6. Have you seen any issues of the print version of Ariadne?

Yes
No

7. How many of the 26 issues to date have you seen?

1-4
5-9
10-16
16-20
21+

8. Would you find personalised notification of new issues useful?

Yes
No

9. Have you seen any of the other UKOLN produced magazines?

Exploit Interactive [1]
Cultivate Interactive [2]

10. What is your job title?

What country are you connecting from?

Do you work in a library?

Yes

If Yes, please indicate the type of library

Many thanks for your help.

Survey written by Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier.
Contact Email: ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk

References

Exploit Interactive
URL: <http://www.exploit-lib.org/>
Cultivate Interactive
URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/>

Ariadne is published every three months by UKOLN. UKOLN is funded by Resource Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives & Libraries (the organisation succeeding the Library and Information Commission), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union . UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based. Text on this page is copyright Ariadne/original authors. This article last updated/links checked on 12-Jan-2001