1. Where do you work/study?

		Education: college	(10/58 responses)
		Education: K-12	(0/58 responses)
		Education: university	(41/58 responses)
		Industry / Business	(3/58 responses)
		Other	(4/58 responses)
91.8% of the people who took this survey (56 / 61) answered this question.

Other Responses (4 for this question)
"detection"
"other"( 2 ) responses
"post graduate"

2. What do you do?

		Researcher	(14/56 responses)
		Librarian	(1/56 responses)
		Faculty	(2/56 responses)
		Student	(30/56 responses)
		Teacher	(6/56 responses)
		Other	(3/56 responses)
88.52% of the people who took this survey (54 / 61) answered this question.

Other Responses (3 for this question)
"CNA Certified Nursing Assistant"
"Network Engineer"
"other"

3. What type of computer are you using?

		Don't know	(1/53 responses)
		Unix-based	(0/53 responses)
		Mac	(0/53 responses)
		PC	(50/53 responses)
		Other	(2/53 responses)
86.89% of the people who took this survey (53 / 61) answered this question.

Other Responses (2 for this question)
"windows 98"( 2 ) responses

4. What is the speed/type of connection are you using?

		Slower than 14.4kbps	(1/53 responses)
		14.4 kbps	(0/53 responses)
		28.8 kbps	(2/53 responses)
		36.6 kbps	(1/53 responses)
		56 kbps	(8/53 responses)
		ISDN	(7/53 responses)
		Ethernet	(15/53 responses)
		T1	(5/53 responses)
		Cable modem	(7/53 responses)
		Don't know	(7/53 responses)
86.89% of the people who took this survey (53 / 61) answered this question.

5. Are you familiar with Adobe PDF?

		Yes	(51/53 responses)
		No	(2/53 responses)
86.89% of the people who took this survey (53 / 61) answered this question.

6. Are you familiar with online databases?

		Yes	(39/52 responses)
		No	(13/52 responses)
85.25% of the people who took this survey (52 / 61) answered this question.

7. If you are from a university, does your institution accept electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)?

		No	(10/53 responses)
		Not from a university	(10/53 responses)
		Yes	(33/53 responses)
86.89% of the people who took this survey (53 / 61) answered this question.

8. If your institution does not accept ETDs, do you think it should?

		No opinion	(15/47 responses)
		Yes	(23/47 responses)
		No	(9/47 responses)
77.05% of the people who took this survey (47 / 61) answered this question.

9. Have you ever submitted an ETD?

		No	(46/53 responses)
		Yes	(7/53 responses)
86.89% of the people who took this survey (53 / 61) answered this question.

10. For what purpose are you using this digital library?
Check all that apply.

		Research	(42/78 responses)
		Job related	(8/78 responses)
		Personal interest	(9/78 responses)
		Learning about ETD's	(11/78 responses)
		Other	(8/78 responses)
86.89% of the people who took this survey (53 / 61) answered this question.

Other Responses (8 for this question)
"apply"
"English Language Thesis"( 2 ) responses
"I work here self training"
"other"( 4 ) responses

11. Did you download any ETDs?
If so, how many?

		more than 10	(9/52 responses)
		6-10	(4/52 responses)
		3-5	(6/52 responses)
		1-2	(14/52 responses)
		Didn't download any ETDs.	(19/52 responses)
85.25% of the people who took this survey (52 / 61) answered this question.

12. If you downloaded any ETDs, how did you find them?
Please select all that apply.

		Browsed by department	(12/55 responses)
		Browsed by author	(6/55 responses)
		Searched	(37/55 responses)
67.21% of the people who took this survey (41 / 61) answered this question.

13. If you downloaded any ETDs, how easy was it to find what you were looking for?

		Very difficult	(4/41 responses)
		Difficult	(9/41 responses)
		Fairly easy	(17/41 responses)
		Easy	(5/41 responses)
		Very easy	(6/41 responses)
67.21% of the people who took this survey (41 / 61) answered this question.

14. If you searched for an ETD, how fast was the response to your search request?

		Haven't searched	(5/43 responses)
		Very slow	(1/43 responses)
		Slow	(7/43 responses)
		Fairly fast	(15/43 responses)
		Fast	(10/43 responses)
		Very fast	(5/43 responses)
70.49% of the people who took this survey (43 / 61) answered this question.

15. How often do you plan to use Virginia Tech's ETD library?

		Rarely	(6/47 responses)
		Occasionally	(14/47 responses)
		Monthly	(3/47 responses)
		Weekly	(20/47 responses)
		Daily	(4/47 responses)
77.05% of the people who took this survey (47 / 61) answered this question.

16. How often do you plan to use other ETD libraries?

		Occasionally	(16/46 responses)
		Monthly	(6/46 responses)
		Weekly	(18/46 responses)
		Daily	(2/46 responses)
		Rarely	(4/46 responses)
75.41% of the people who took this survey (46 / 61) answered this question.

Additional comments:
Please provide any comments about Virginia Tech's ETDs.

Text Responses (25 for this question)
"Can't read the pdf file - get an error about embedded fonts which leaves the file unreadable." - ( 2 responses)
"convinient"
"good" - ( 2 responses)
"good for researcher. need more resources"
"I"
"I am a VT Faculty member. Perhaps you could find a way to identify departments more uniformly. Example: ARCH for department of Architecture and ../or School of Architecture etc.. (May be a pull down list during the submission with department abbreviations...) File standards (i.e. PDF distilling options) and file name conventions (e.g. LastName_FirstName_ThesisTitleShortNr1) would help. Boullion Searches would be helpful. For example, I would like to be able to find: Department: ARCH Author: (all) Year: 2001 - 2005 Thesis Chair: Galloway"
"it is a very important thing for me"
"it very good!"
"It would be convenient to have a keyword search function on the page to extract relevent theses."
"It would be nice if you could explain on the website why something would be restricted to only the Virginia Tech campus...and if it's possible for those from outside institutions to gain access."
"let's me see."
"no comments"
"Nothing" - ( 2 responses)
"Please send me Thesis about English Language i will be very thankful to you."
"sciences is the way of greaters"
"solid propellant"
"sss"
"thanks !"
"the efficiency is not so high when search or download some thesis,anyway,you do a good job for many people"
"very good!"
"very good, convinientfor students and researcher"
"Why can't I find out who the author of the paper I want to use is? How do I properly cite anything I may use in the paper?"

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