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SUNYLA Membership Enthusiasm & Outreach Working Group (MEOW):

SUNYLA Membership Enthusiasm & Outreach Working Group (MEOW):. Survey Results Revealed. A panel presentation by Kim Davies Hoffman, Rudy Leon, Stephan Macaluso & Nancy Williamson. Friday, June 13, 2008 SUNYLA Annual Conference. How it all began . . .

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SUNYLA Membership Enthusiasm & Outreach Working Group (MEOW):

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  1. SUNYLAMembership Enthusiasm & Outreach Working Group(MEOW): Survey Results Revealed A panel presentation by Kim Davies Hoffman, Rudy Leon, Stephan Macaluso & Nancy Williamson Friday, June 13, 2008SUNYLA Annual Conference

  2. How it all began . . . • Lack of candidates for SUNYLA Election 2007 • Decrease in voting members due to unpaid membership dues • Not enough marketing for SUNYLA • Lack of participation in SUNYLA activities, overall MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  3. Proposal to SUNYLA Executive Council Investigate apathy Develop proposals Pass proposals to others MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  4. What to investigate?Named concerns MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  5. Member ideas for addressing the concerns • Member survey • Special programs for new members • Restructuring SUNYLA Council meetings • Develop a new website (web committee) for marketing purposes • Establish and incorporate a mission statement • Develop a new SUNYLA logo • Training programs given by directors & SUNYLA officers • Committee for concerns & future of SUNYLA • Incentives for SUNYLA officers • Career advancement initiatives • Publishing workshop/ • group MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  6. Formation of the Ad hoc Committee Comprehensive 4-Year CollegeKim Hoffman, Chair Ken Fujiuchi Dan Harms Emily Hart Rudy Leon Stephan Macaluso Tracy Paradis Kate Pitcher Community CollegeBill Drew NickiLerczak Marc Wildman Nancy Williamson OtherKadriNiider (Optometry) Mark Smith (Alfred U) Lori Widzinski (UB HSL) Technical CollegeFran Apollo Joe Petrick MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  7. Meeting in person and via the wiki http://sunylameow.pbwiki.com http://sunylameow.pbwiki.com

  8. The Survey MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  9. Survey Demographics MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  10. Survey Demographics Over 6 years at SUNY (presumably tenured) = 71% MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  11. Survey Demographics MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  12. Survey Demographics MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  13. Survey Demographics * 133 out of 187 responded being current SUNYLA members – 100% response rate * 53 respondents stated not being a current SUNYLA member. 1 person did not answer.

  14. Why Not SUNYLA?  Q8: If you have never been a SUNYLA member, or have stopped renewing your membership, could you provide any specific reasons why SUNYLA has not appealed to you? INDIFFERENCE: no compelling reason to join, perceived lack of value in membership, “not getting around to it.” OTHER ORGANIZATIONS: professional interests met sufficiently by other library organizations. EXCLUSION: lack of an invitation or information;  not a librarian. OTHER: retirement, travel issues, lack of institutional support, etc. MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  15. What Other Organizations? Other Organizations include: Specialized like LITA, NASIG, MLA (medical), MLA (music), and SLA; Local chapters of various specialized orgs; Localized like NYLA, NCLA (Nassau County), SCLA (Suffolk County), and 3 R’s MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  16. Reasons why we participate From Survey = Q12 On average, a 73% response rate (n=137) Top 5 reasons stated why SUNYLA members participate in SUNYLA

  17. Reasons why some do not participate Q13: . . . if you do not participate, please tell us why (n=19) MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  18. How do we participate MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  19. How do we participate MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  20. How do we participateSUNYLA Executive Council MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  21. SUNYLA Annual Conference MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  22. SUNYLA Annual Conference MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  23. N=104 Q17: Of those who responded to “Do you plan to attend SUNYLA 2008” with No (35) or Unsure (69), when did they last attend a SUNYLA conference?

  24. 104 responses, 73 comments Question 17: Do you plan to attend 2008 Conference? Why or Why Not?

  25. N=50, 31 comments Question 17, of those who reported No or unsure but attended SUNYLA within 2 years

  26. Other conferences? MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  27. Open Ended Questions MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  28. Asking SUNYLA for ideas Survey asked the following open questions: • Additional comments you would like to share regarding SUNYLA's activities? 21) What are one or two things that SUNYLA could change that might increase your participation in the organization? 22) Are there specific SUNY library-related issues that you would like to see SUNYLA address that you don't think are currently being addressed by the organization?       MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  29. What did the respondents say? • Fairly low response rate • Comments re: SUNYLA activities n=35 • Changes? N=65 • Specific issues to take on? N=41 • Contradictory responses • Revealed a lack of clarity about mission, power, role of SUNYLA MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  30. Additional comments regarding SUNYLA’s activities? • It’s all great! • UUP/Advocacy really important! • UUP/Advocacy irrelevant, stop it! • Need to address cliquishness • Need to do more outreach and advertising • Not enough time to engage • State is too big/SUNY is too big • Annual conference is great! • Annual conference needs to be better MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  31. SUNY library-related issues SUNYLA isn’t addressing but should? • Open up! Too cliquish, too closed, too hard to break into • Mentoring of new members • More subcommittees/interest groups • Defeat space & time – webinars, regional meetings • More, and more frequent, events • Staffing and workload issues • Improve the quality of the conference • The conference is great • Help move SUNY Libraries into the future • More topics/more practical topics of conference and committees • Make it cheaper • Improve standing of SUNYLA in eyes of library admin MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  32. Data that still needs to be analyzed Info by sector and membership/participation: * Caveat: the data points may be so small as to be statistically irrelevant MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  33. What else do we still need to know? Member involvement by longevity Why members have left SUNYLA Data specifically from non-members answering survey How to reach the large number that didn’t answer the survey MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  34. Themes MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  35. More themes MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  36. Main Themes Wouldn’t it be nice if SUNYLA . . . ? Please use http://SUNYLA08.pbwiki.com to add recommendations brainstormed within the individual groups MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

  37. For more information, contact . . . Kim Davies Hoffman SUNY Geneseo kdhoffman@geneseo.edu (585) 245-5046 Stephan Macaluso SUNY New Paltz macaluss@newpaltz.edu (845) 257-2699 sunylameow.pbwiki.com Rudy Leon SUNY Potsdam leonre@potsdam.edu (315) 267-3309 Nancy Williamson Nassau Community College Nancy.Williamson@ncc.edu (516) 572-7406 MEOW: Survey Results Revealed, SUNYLA

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