On Sept. 13, 1995, I posted a survey questionnaire to SERIALST in an
attempt to to gather some information about the subscribership, as well
as some perspectives about SERIALST's history, use, and the role it plays
in professional networking in the serials community.

I received 262 replies from @ 1900 active mail recipients (@ 13% response
rate).  Several respondents indicated that they would be interested in
seeing the results of the survey, so I am posting a summary to the list.
Because the survey solicited many areas for comment and I tried to include
all feedback, the final length of the summary resulted in @970 lines (or
@20 printed pages, depending on printer and font) of text -- Lots of
comments!  Because of the length, I am posting the summary to the list in
3 parts.  I am also making the full texts of both the original survey
questionnaire and the summary available on SERIALST's fileserver as two
separate documents.

Thus, the summary may be read in a three part sequel to the list (soon to
follow this message), or it may be retrieved in its entirety (969 lines)
from the fileserver:

Access to documents on the fileserver is as follows:

To retrieve the SURVEY SUMMARY, send an email message to:
listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu  that reads:  GET SURVEY SUMMARY

To retrieve a copy of the original survey form, send an email message to:
listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu  that reads:  GET SERIALST SURVEY

You may retrieve a copy of the SERIALST filelist to review the index (or
complete list of files on the server) by sending an email message to:
listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu  that reads:  INDEX SERIALST   [or]
                                     GET SERIALST FILELIST
    (these commands are synonymous & either will get the same result)

Many Thanks to all of you who took the time and care to respond this
survey.  Many of your comments have already had an effect on some of the
day-to-day list decisions that go into managing and coordinating SERIALST.

Survey results follow.

With best regards to all of the subscribership and contributors who really
have shaped SERIALST over its 5 year history ... and made it what it is.

        Birdie MacLennan
        SERIALST Listowner/Moderator    bmaclenn@moose.uvm.edu
        University of Vermont           bmaclenn@uvmvm.uvm.edu