MLA Surveys and Studies

Active Surveys

The following surveys have been conducted in the past several years:

Scholarly Communications Survey 2008 (closed December 2008)
JMLA Readership Survey (closed November 2008) survey results appendix (verbatim comments; )
MLA Social Software Survey (closed August 2008)
Section Council Section Nonmember Survey (closed April 16, 2008)
MLA Membership Survey (12/18/2007-2/4/2008): summary data
Task Force on Social Networking Software survey (Summer 2007) summary data | charts and graphs For further analysis and discussion, watch the Task Force Blog.

MLA Survey on Hospital Libraries (survey copy only; ended September 2006)
MLA News Readership Survey 2005
Section Council Standards Committee survey on section standards
Health Sciences Libraries and Health Information Literacy (closed March 15, 2005)

Joint Section Survey on the Role of Education and Training (closed November 12, 2004)
Benchmarking Network Data Collection (ended July 2004)
MLA Publishing Survey (ended June 30, 2004)
- summary results
2003 JMLA Readership Survey (April 2003)
- survey results
- appendix (verbatim comments; )
2002-03 Membership Survey (ended February 18, 2003)
- survey results
- selected comparisons with 1994 survey

For further information on any MLA surveys, please contact Kate Corcoran, corcoran@mlahq.org, 312.419.9094 x12.