Library Quick-Poll #20 Responses

Are you on Tumblr?

5 responses so far

Yes		20%
No		80%

Comments:

• Tumblr is way better than Facebook!
• No, but ... I plan to get on it!

Note: This poll is still in progress. If you haven't yet answered this poll, click here.

Library Quick-Poll #19 Responses

Do you think you could give up Facebook for an entire weekend?

No way!		0%
Maybe.		8%
Sure, no problem.		69%
I don't have a Facebook account.		23%

Total responses: 13

Comments:

• I only check it once a week anyway, so I think I could manage this challenge. But go without my cell phone? Never!
• I love Facebook! I enjoy to see what going on with my friends and family in the distance and Facebook offer all of this, but before we did not have anything like this and we survived anyway. We communicated with family and friends using other means, phone, mail or during family reunions. Technology is a great advantage, but there are many other things people can do.

Library Quick-Poll #18 Responses

Given the choice, would you prefer to:

Read a book.		67%
Listen to an audiobook		0%
I have no preference - I like both.		33%

Total responses: 12

Comments:

• You can't curl up with a CD player or iPod the way you can with a real book.
• If I'm driving long distances, audiobooks are great. Otherwise, I prefer to read.
• I prefer reading a book but I love to listen to audiobooks on long car trips.
• How about a good Kindle?
• An audio book is good if the narrator is good. The person has to have a nice reading voice. I've listened to some audio books where the narrator is an actor who does different voices for different characters. This is usually much better than when they have the author read the book.

Library Quick-Poll #17 Responses

What is your favorite children's book?

Total responses: 18

• Go Dog Go, by P.D. Eastman
• I loved a book called Thimble Summer by the author Elizabeth Enright
• The Monster at the End Of This Book
• Homer Price - it was quirky, fun, and included wonderful, clean drawings by the author himself, Robert McCloskey, who died only a few years ago, in '03. He was also the author/illustrator of Make Way for Ducklings which I had "read" perhaps 5-6 years before reading Homer Price. That is, Captain Kangaroo read it a number of times on his show when I was 3 or 4 or so. (He also read Stone Soup by Marcia Brown, and something about a steam shovel, and another about a tugboat if I remember). It warms me now to think of them, especially Homer Price. http://www.amazon.com/Homer-Price-Robert-McCloskey/dp/0140309276
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Price
• Goodnight Moon
• Swine Lake, written by James Marshall, illustrated by Maurice Sendak (1999). Humorous, serious, biting, graceful pigs...
• Good Boy, Fergus
• The little engine that could and A Child's Garden of Verses
• Mr. Pusskins by Sam Lloyd is too cute! Hear excerpts from it in this radio podcast: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7819862
• La Edad de Oro by José Martí
• SAY "Hello" VANESSA
• Skippy John Jones
• Places you will go (Doctor Seuss)
• huggle can juggle
• The Giving Tree
• Charlie Bone
• Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift
• PINOCCHIO

Library Quick-Poll #16 Responses

Is it okay for students and teachers to be friends on Facebook?

Yes		49%
No		40%
Don't know		11%

Total responses: 37

Comments:

• Why not?
• In a nice way.
• I have never "friended" a student. They have always "friended" me first.
• No, Facebook breeds a less formal relationship than must be maintained, however, I am a huge supporter of e-mails from teachers to students / parents.
• I would no more tolerate a Facebook relationship than I would finding a series of text messages between a teacher and a student.
• Interesting question. At first I said yes, because I LOVE my "old" students. Then I realized I taught them years ago. I consider them friends, but if I were teaching them now I'm not so sure I'd want them knowing EVERYTHING. There has to be boundaries, distance.
• It might add something to the classroom experience, outside of the classroom
• Teachers are people too.
• I am a very private person and don't like Facebook either.
• Yes it's okay. We are all humans regardless of our position within our society. We shall be able to get along peacefully. Even though that is not always the case.

Library Quick-Poll #15 Responses

Do you Twitter?

Yes		26%
No, but I'm familiar with Twitter		40%
No, I know little or nothing about Twitter		33%

Want to learn more about Twitter? Click here.

Library Quick-Poll #14 Responses

True or False: The Kendall Campus Library has a copy of every textbook currently being used in the classes taught on campus.

True		60%
False		40%

The majority of respondents chose the wrong answer. The correct answer is "false." Normally, the Kendall Campus Library has only those textbooks that have been placed on reserve by the course instructors. Your instructor will usually let you know if the book for your class is on reserve in the library. (Faculty members wishing to place materials on reserve may complete the Reserve Request Form.)

Library Quick-Poll #13 Responses

Are you a resident of Second Life?

Yes		6%
No, but I've heard of Second Life		26%
No, I've never heard of Second Life		68%

Second Life is an Internet-based 3D virtual world in which users (known as "residents") use avatars to interact with each other and travel to a variety of virtual locations. Residents can socialize, participate in group activities, design and build virtual objects and environments, and use real currency to buy and sell goods. Visit secondlife.com to learn more.

Library Quick-Poll #12 Responses

Do you have your own MySpace and/or Facebook page?

MySpace only		21%
Facebook only		16%
Both		21%
Neither		42%

Library Quick-Poll #11 Responses

What is your favorite Internet search engine?

Google		94%
Ask.com		0%
Yahoo		6%
Other (please specify)		0%

Library Quick-Poll #10 Responses

How many libraries are there in the United States?

9,207		0%
17,054		19%
93,861		25%
117,378		56%

The majority of respondents chose the correct answer: 117,378. According to the American Library Association, there are an estimated 117,378 libraries of all kinds in the United States. There are more public libraries (16,220, including branches) than McDonald's restaurants (13,000) in the U.S.

Library Quick-Poll #9 Responses

True or False: The use of academic libraries has been in decline since the proliferation of the Internet.

True		39%
False		61%

The majority of respondents chose the correct answer, False. The American Library Association reports that, "despite the continued (and well-publicized) growth in the number and variety of online resources for research and learning on-site, use of academic libraries and their collections grew from 880,188,296 library visits in 2002 to more than a billion (1,007,174,740) in 2004, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, an increase of more than 14 percent."

Library Quick-Poll #8 Responses

Should students be allowed to use the library computers to view MySpace?

Yes		54%
No		46%

To read some comments on the use of MySpace in the library, click here.

Library Quick-Poll #7 Responses

True or false: The average American spends more money on video games than on books.

True		59%
False		41%

The majority of respondents chose the wrong answer. The correct answer is "false." According to projected figures published in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, the average American will spend $39.25 on video games in 2007, and $93.02 on books.

(However, according to the American Library Association, Americans spend nearly ten times more money on video games than on school library materials for their children.)

Library Quick-Poll #6 Responses

Are there any magazines or journals to which you would like the Kendall Campus Library to subscribe?

The following titles were suggested:

Real Simple
Time
Newsweek
Money
American Artist
Photo Life

Note: The library already subscribes to Time, Newsweek, Money, and American Artist. The requests for Real Simple and Photo Life will be reviewed by the Kendall Campus librarians for possible addition to the periodicals collection.

Library Quick-Poll #5 Responses

Which of the following do you think would be the most useful addition to the Kendall Campus Library?

More computers		20%
More new books		53%
Extended hours		7%
Group study areas		7%
Other (please specify)		13%

• "Additional staff"
• "APCC UPS (uninterruptable power supplies) at each computer. My last use of the library had power outages every 20 minutes, and I'd have to hit Save every minute, or even lose work."

Library Quick-Poll #4 Responses

True or false: Americans go to libraries more often than they go to the movies.

True		61%
False		39%

The majority of respondents chose the correct answer: True. According to the American Library Association's Quotable Facts About America's Libraries, Americans go to school, public, and academic libraries 16% more often than they go to the movies.

Library Quick-Poll #3 Responses

Which of these libraries has the largest collection?

New York Public Library		36%
Yale University		55%
Boston Public Library		0%
Princeton University		9%

No one chose the correct answer, Boston Public Library. According to the latest American Library Association data, Boston Public holds 14,933,349 volumes. Yale has 11,114,308 volumes, New York Public has 6,777,587, and Princeton has 6,224,270. The library with the largest collection in the United States is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with 29,550,914 volumes.