LibQUAL+® Draw Winners

With 304 entries and 152 comments submitted to the Library Services' LibQUAL+^® survey, we are greatly appreciative of all of those individuals that took time to participate. No good deed goes unrewarded and the reward is greater for some of you. Congratulations to the following participants in the survey who won one of our 10 prize draws:

$25 Campus Store Winners:

• Ray Bosomworth
• Lindsey Kowalchuck
• Dean Milne
• Carrie Noack
• Judi Santos
  

$25 iTunes Store Winners:

• Brianne Debler
• Jacqueline Freeman
• Jamie Herman
• Jennifer Knudsen
• Joelle Thibault

For our other participants, we will take your suggestions to heart and continuously work to build a better library for all our patrons. Thank you again for participating and look forward to the results of the survey in the near future.

Help Us Help You!

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UPDATE: SURVEY NOW CLOSED

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All current Medicine Hat College students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in a library quality improvement survey to help us serve you better. Check your college email for the link or take the survey here.

Results of the survey will be shared with the college community and will be used to improve library services and resources.

How can I complete the survey?

• You will receive a link to the web-based survey in an email from Campus Announcements on Monday February 22 and on Monday March 1. Check your college email account. Missed the email? Take the survey here. If you have problems accessing the survey, please contact Leigh Cunningham.
  
  
• Completing the survey will take about 5 minutes. The survey will remain open until 4pm on Friday March 12.

Is there an incentive?

• Yes! To thank you for your participation, we invite you to enter a prize draw for a chance to win one of five $25 iTunes gift cards or one of five $25 gift certificates for the college bookstore. Be sure to provide your college email address when you submit your survey. Your email will not be linked to your responses.

Are my responses confidential?

• Yes. No identifying links between responses and the individual responding will be retained. Only combined data will be reported. Your participation is voluntary. This project has been reviewed by the Medicine Hat College Ethics Review Board.

Do I have to answer all questions?

• Yes. If you do not know how to answer a question, you can select “N/A” or “I don’t know”. The survey format is designed to capture your expected, desired and perceived levels of service and this is why there are three responses required for each question.

What is the LibQUAL+^® survey?

• LibQUAL+^® survey measures library users’ perceptions of their libraries’ service quality and identifies gaps between minimal, desired and perceived levels of service. LibQUAL+^® is a rigorously tested web-based survey offered by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that helps libraries assess and improve library services. Over 1000 libraries in Canada, the United States and internationally have used the survey since 2000.

For more information, please see the LibQUAL+^® website: http://www.libqual.org

Many thanks for your help!

Questions about the survey can be directed to:
Leigh Cunningham, Collections and Instruction Librarian
Phone: 403-504-3654
lcunningham@mhc.ab.ca

Twitter Contest Winner

What is a good way for Library Services to start a new year? Have a contest!

Library Services held a Twitter related contest for the first several weeks of 2010 and we would like to congratulate our winner--Jan Stalwick. She is the winner of a green iPod Shuffle. We definitely appreciate her enthusiasm and hope she enjoys the prize.

Thank you to everyone else that entered. Look for more contests, events, and prize draws throughout the year from your friends in Library Services.

Win an iPod Shuffle from Library Services

Everyone loves to win a prize, so let us begin 2010 with a different kind of prize draw from Library Services! We are giving you the opportunity to win an iPod Shuffle when you subscribe to our Twitter feed. It is really easy and only takes 5 minutes of time.

TO QUALIFY, you must do the following things:

1. Subscribe to our Twitter site (http://twitter.com/mhclibrary)
   
   
2. Retweet the Twitter contest announcement (http://twitter.com/mhclibrary/status/7379687173)
   
   
3. Direct message (DM) us via Twitter with your iPod Shuffle colour preference (silver, black, blue, green, or pink) [NOTE: We might have to "follow" you before you can DM us.]
   

WHO CAN ENTER

• Faculty, staff, and students of Medicine Hat College.
  
  
• Public and existing subscribers/tweeps.
  
  
• Must have a Canadian mailing address if outside the Medicine Hat and Brooks areas.
  
  
• Exception: Present library staff members cannot enter.

DATES

• Starts: 5 January 2010 (8:00 a.m.)
  
  
• Closes: 22 January 2010 (Midnight)
  
  
• Draw date: 25 January 2010 (Noon)

NOTIFICATION

You will be notified via Twitter DM if you won the draw. You will have 48 hours to claim/confirm acceptance of the prize. If no acceptance is received by us, the prize will be redrawn until a winner accepts the prize.

Read & Win! Winners

Congratulations to our Read and Win! winners. The winners and their corresponding prizes are:

• Fernando Moreno - 1st Prize: $50 credit to Chapters/Indigo.ca
  
  
• Danielle Fitzsimonds - Runner-up: $25 credit to Chapters/Indigo.ca
  
  
• Vincent Sletvold - Runner-up: $25 credit to Chapters/Indigo.ca

Read & Win!

If you read, you win with the Vera Bracken Library! It is that simple.

When you borrow any item from the library between February 23^rd to March 23^rd, the Circulation Desk Staff will stamp your Frequent Reader Card. The person with the most stamps by March 23^rd wins.

The grand prize will be your choice of any item from Chapters/Indigo up to a value of $50. See the Circulation Desk in the Vera Bracken Library to get your Frequent Reader Card and start reading!