22 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Number of Libraries that Began Using Social Software Application Each Year
Application 2000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Pending N
Overall 3 1 7 5 4 5 22 7 6 1 61
Chat or IM
services
3 1 6 7 2 5 8 10 12 3 57
RSS 1 5 8 19 17 3 53
Blogs 1 3 13 16 17 2 52
Wikis 1 5 6 15 22 3 52
Widgets 1 5 30 6 1 43
Social
networking
sites
1 3 13 20 3 3 43
Social
bookmarking/
tagging
4 22 7 2 35
Media sharing
sites
1 6 22 5 4 38
VOIP 1 3 3 10 2 19
Virtual worlds 1 2 11 2 3 19
4. What was the impetus for implementing this social software in your library? Check all that apply.
N=61
Grassroots efforts by individual librarians and staff 49 80%
Pilot in a specific department 32 53%
Recommendation from library administration 12 20%
Recommendation from library IT department 10 16%
Identified as an objective in the strategic plan 9 15%
Requests from users 5 8%
Recommendation from parent institution 1 2%
Other 7 12%
Please describe other impetus.
“Desire to market resources to student community.”
“Co-developed a Dspace plugin for ‘Comments’ in the institutional repository.”
“Communications between the distributed team of librarians.”
Number of Libraries that Began Using Social Software Application Each Year
Application 2000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Pending N
Overall 3 1 7 5 4 5 22 7 6 1 61
Chat or IM
services
3 1 6 7 2 5 8 10 12 3 57
RSS 1 5 8 19 17 3 53
Blogs 1 3 13 16 17 2 52
Wikis 1 5 6 15 22 3 52
Widgets 1 5 30 6 1 43
Social
networking
sites
1 3 13 20 3 3 43
Social
bookmarking/
tagging
4 22 7 2 35
Media sharing
sites
1 6 22 5 4 38
VOIP 1 3 3 10 2 19
Virtual worlds 1 2 11 2 3 19
4. What was the impetus for implementing this social software in your library? Check all that apply.
N=61
Grassroots efforts by individual librarians and staff 49 80%
Pilot in a specific department 32 53%
Recommendation from library administration 12 20%
Recommendation from library IT department 10 16%
Identified as an objective in the strategic plan 9 15%
Requests from users 5 8%
Recommendation from parent institution 1 2%
Other 7 12%
Please describe other impetus.
“Desire to market resources to student community.”
“Co-developed a Dspace plugin for ‘Comments’ in the institutional repository.”
“Communications between the distributed team of librarians.”
