Library Evaluation Form

Please enter your status at BMSC:

 

1.  During your time at BMSC, on average, how frequently did you use the library for each of the following?

4+ times
per week		 1 - 3 times
per week		 2 - 3 times
per month		 Once
per month		 Never
Research
Review New Books
Review New Journal Issues
Use Tables to Work at
Use Computer
4+ times
per week		 1 - 3 times
per week		 2 - 3 times
per month		 Once
per month		 Never

 

2.  On average, how frequently did you use the following library materials and services?

4+ times
per week		 1 - 3 times
per week		 2 - 3 times
per month		 Once
per month		 Never
Interlibrary Loans
Electronic Document Requests
Consult or Sign Out Books
Consult Journals
Consult Reprints
Use Online Catalogue
Consult Student Reports
Consult BMSC Publications
Photocopying
Printing
ROV Database
Library Homepage
4+ times
per week		 1 - 3 times
per week		 2 - 3 times
per month		 Once
per month		 Never

 

3.  How satisfied are you with the following library services and resources?

Very
Satisfied		 Satisfied Not
Satisfied
Book Collection
Current Journals
Back Runs of Journals
Access to Journals
(Online & Print)
Reference Collection
Interlibrary Loans
(Speed & Photocopy Quality)
Electronic Document Requests
Librarian Assistance
Very
Satisfied		 Satisfied Not
Satisfied

 

4.  When locating resources and finding information, how do you rate the following methods?

Good Average Poor
Main Catalogue
Reprints
Journals
Student Reports
BMSC Publications
Good Average Poor

 

5.  Rate the following journals based on usefulness and how often you refer to them:

Always Often Sometimes Seldom Never
American Naturalist
Annual Review of
Ecology and Systematics
Auk
Biological Bulletin
Botanica Marina
Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Ecological Applications
Ecological Monographs
Ecology
Evolution
Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment
Invertebrate Biology
Journal of Experimental Biology
Journal of Experimental
Marine Biology and Ecology
Journal of the Marine Biological
Association of the United Kingdom
Journal of Phycology
Limnology and Oceanography
Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
Marine Biology
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Nature
OIKOS
Phycologia
Science
The Veliger
Always Often Sometimes Seldom Never

 

6.  Are there any journals that you feel would be useful additions to the collection?

 

7.  Are there any other services that you feel should be improved or offered in the library?
(For eg. "Improve online access to materials", "Strengthen onsite collection for specific subject areas", "Add reading / studying space")

 

8.  Any other comments?