Dudden Rosalind Farnam, Corcoran Kate, Kaplan Janice, Magouirk Jeff, Rand Debra C, Smith Bernie Todd
Gerald Tucker Memorial Medical Library, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street Denver, Colorado 80206, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2006 Apr;94(2):118-29.
This article presents some limited results from the Medical Library Association (MLA) Benchmarking Network survey conducted in 2002. Other uses of the data are also presented.
After several years of development and testing, a Web-based survey opened for data input in December 2001. Three hundred eighty-five MLA members entered data on the size of their institutions and the activities of their libraries. The data from 344 hospital libraries were edited and selected for reporting in aggregate tables and on an interactive site in the Members-Only area of MLANET. The data represent a 16% to 23% return rate and have a 95% confidence level.
Specific questions can be answered using the reports. The data can be used to review internal processes, perform outcomes benchmarking, retest a hypothesis, refute a previous survey findings, or develop library standards. The data can be used to compare to current surveys or look for trends by comparing the data to past surveys.
The impact of this project on MLA will reach into areas of research and advocacy. The data will be useful in the everyday working of small health sciences libraries as well as provide concrete data on the current practices of health sciences libraries.
本文展示了2002年医学图书馆协会（MLA）基准网络调查的一些有限结果。还介绍了这些数据的其他用途。
经过数年的开发和测试，一项基于网络的调查于2001年12月开放以供数据输入。385名MLA成员输入了有关其机构规模和图书馆活动的数据。对344家医院图书馆的数据进行了编辑，并挑选出来用于汇总表报告以及在MLANET仅限会员区域的交互式网站上展示。这些数据的回复率为16%至23%，置信水平为95%。
可以使用这些报告回答具体问题。这些数据可用于审查内部流程、进行成果基准测试、重新检验假设、反驳先前的调查结果或制定图书馆标准。这些数据可用于与当前调查进行比较，或通过将数据与过去的调查进行比较来寻找趋势。
该项目对MLA的影响将延伸到研究和宣传领域。这些数据将对小型健康科学图书馆的日常工作有用，同时也能提供有关健康科学图书馆当前实践的具体数据。
