Tuesday
Dec102013
What tools do you use to maintain your PLN, librarians?
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 05:56AM 
I've been a member of LM_Net since about 1992. It was my first online PLN even before the term was invented. A PLN has been a big part of my professional career. I've written about them here, here (with Dr. Joyce), and here for admins. And PLNs are more important, more powerful, and more diverse than ever.It's the diversity piece that has me curious. I find myself using some tools more and some tools less to learn and connect. Some of my younger, smarter colleagues (oops, I guess that is all of them) seem to be using different tools than those which I like.
Anyway, find below a very short survey of 13 multiple choice questions aimed at librarians and library-related people about the tools used to connect with PLNs. Please take 3 minutes and complete it. I promise a summary will appear on this blog!
The survey can also be accessed here: https://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/PLN+Tool+Survey
Please share this survey with other librarians! Thanks, Doug
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Reader Comments (8)
Several times I had to choose secondary growing or decreasing when what I really wanted was staying the same. Also, I cover 3 campuses and you didn't have a choice for that one! It might be really telling on your survey to compare those of us who are covering more than one campus and how much we are able to do against those on only one campus.
Hi Jean,
I purposely made people make a choice about whether a tool was getting more or less use from them so I could see trends. Sorry!
If you serve kids and staff at a building level, I would count you as a building librarian regardless of number of buildings served.
Thanks for allowing me to clarify,
Doug
Yeah, why no secondary/primary and holding steady?
I found it interesting that I couldn't really decide on one resource as my primary source of information. I, too, wantd to put "staying steady" on a number of my responses, but I understand why you didn't include it. I look forward to seeing the results
Dear Doug,
I apologize for just getting to this now. Guess I missed the opportunity to contribute.
@emilyhpeterson
Hi Emily,
No worries. I cut this off at 500 and I was surprised how quickly 500 people responded!
Doug
Doug,
I hope that you will post a copy of the questionnaire along with the results.
Hi Pam,
Good point. I turned the survey back on so people can see the form in the original post.
All the best,
Doug