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1999 NFACE Survey of
Individual Continuing Education and Information Needs

Survey Intro | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 overview | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

Part 6: Best vehicles for providing technical information

Table 8.a. Best vehicles for providing technical information (by organization)
(average weight given by all respondents in each type of organization)
3=best method, 2=acceptable method, 1=inconvenient or difficult, 0=would not use

 

Journals

News-
letters

Manuals, handbooks

Technical leaflets

List-
servs

Direct 
mail announce-
ments

Email notices

Internet websites

Archival consul-
tants

Mentoring relation-
ships 

1-Hist Soc

1.71

2.12

2.14

1.97

0.49

2.01

1.41

1.45

1.52

1.70

2-C & U

1.99

2.10

2.37

2.23

1.45

2.08

2.23

2.23

1.34

1.89

3-Govt

1.73

2.02

2.28

2.04

0.83

2.08

1.85

1.82

1.42

1.67

4-Pub Lib

1.66

2.07

2.14

1.94

1.00

2.24

1.99

2.09

1.37

1.67

5-Mus

1.87

2.21

2.30

2.27

0.74

2.15

1.66

1.70

1.59

1.93

6-Relig

1.79

2.06

2.21

2.05

0.76

2.09

1.69

1.65

1.42

1.64

7-Other

1.93

2.09

2.28

2.11

1.22

2.10

1.96

1.97

1.47

1.97

All resp

1.79

2.09

2.24

2.07

0.90

2.10

1.81

1.84

1.44

1.76

Table 8.b. Best vehicles for providing technical information (by position type)
(average weight given by all respondents)
3=best method, 2=acceptable method, 1=inconvenient or difficult, 0=would not use

 

Journals

News-
letters

Manuals, hand-
books

Tech-
nical leaflets

List-
servs

Direct mail announce-
ments

Email notices

Internet websites

Archival consul-
tants

Mentoring relation-
ships

1-Archivist

1.97

2.10

2.45

2.33

1.35

2.09

2.04

2.04

1.41

1.84

2-Librarian

1.78

2.03

2.25

2.06

1.11

2.17

2.09

2.10

1.40

1.80

3-Mus Prof

1.85

2.15

2.33

2.34

0.56

2.15

1.59

1.74

1.61

1.90

4-Rec Mgr

1.75

2.15

2.21

1.94

0.92

2.21

1.95

1.89

1.16

1.56

5-Other Govt

1.60

2.04

2.17

1.82

0.42

2.13

1.74

1.73

1.51

1.62

6-Volunteer

1.55

2.09

1.90

1.70

0.25

2.00

1.17

1.18

1.52

1.56

7-Other

1.80

2.08

2.12

1.93

0.85

1.90

1.78

1.88

1.45

1.92

All resp

1.79

2.09

2.24

2.07

0.90

2.10

1.81

1.84

1.44

1.76

 

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