The ALISE Project: Design of an Online Questionnaire for Integration and Processing of Statistical Information

Abstract

Each year the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) publishes the ALISE Statistical Report. The report contains statistical information on library and information science programs that are accredited by the American Library Association (ALA). The current process for collecting and compiling statistical data from schools involves many manual tasks. Among these are paper questionnaire submission via standard mail, input of data into several databases for archiving purposes, and compilation of statistics by individual authors of the report's five chapters. This paper describes the development of an online questionnaire system, to collect the statistical data and automate the process of data input, data update and data storage. A usability study was also conducted to gather feedback from users and to improve the user interface

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