Ames Public Lirbary Strategic Survey 2020
The 2020 Ames Public Library Strategic survey was administered between June and August of 2020 through an internet form and paper surveys distributed to all city residents in their water bill and at the library. There were responses collected. 189 paper surveys were returned, 42 from the library, and the rest of the surveys were from the online form. The following report presents the results for each question in the survey and some additional analysis of the data.
In this survey, multiple age categories were marked off in order to get more information about the preferences being represented in the survey. More than half of responses indicated the 60+ age group, so their results drive the rest of the survey. The most dissimilar group is the under age 11 group, so we provided them as a contrast to the overall results. However, they are not very different, in part because all the programs were broadly popular and possibly because adults were filling the surveys out and represented their own interests as well.