Organizational Issues Task Force Staff Questionnaire

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The Organizational Issues Task Force is providing this web form to give staff the opportunity to give us additional input. There are ten questions below. Feel free to answer any or all of them by clicking or scrolling to the appropriate box.

All submissions will come to us anonymously. We appreciate your feedback!


1. Should the MIT Libraries create functional groups so that, for example, all reference staff, or all circulation staff, work together as a team?

2. Is there a better way to coordinate all or some of the public service units in Building 14? (These include Science, Humanities, Hayden Circulation, Hayden Basement, the Reserve Book Room, the Music Library, Archives, and Document Services.) For example, would the management of public space in Building 14 be improved by having one person responsible?

3. What one thing would you change about the MIT Libraries?

4. What is the single greatest impediment to getting your job done?

5. What organizational changes might allow us to better communicate with our various user groups?

6. In what ways does the current structure fail to provide adequate links or communication between and among public services, technical services, systems and the library administration? How might the situation be improved?

7. Are there any services or operations that should be streamlined or eliminated?

8. What would you describe as the most striking characteristic of MIT Library culture? Is there something about the culture of the MIT Libraries (as opposed to the official structure) that you would like to see the Task Force address?

9. What alternative structure or organizational model might enable us to provide better service and make more efficient use of staff?

10. Other comments (for example, what other organizational issues should we be discussing?)


1. Should the MIT Libraries create functional groups so that, for example, all reference staff, or all circulation staff, work together as a team?


2. Is there a better way to coordinate all or some of the public service units in Building 14? (These include Science, Humanities, Hayden Circulation, Hayden Basement, the Reserve Book Room, the Music Library, Archives, and Document Services.) For example, would the management of public space in Building 14 be improved by having one person responsible?


3. What one thing would you change about the MIT Libraries?


4. What is the single greatest impediment to getting your job done?


5. What organizational changes might allow us to better communicate with our various user groups?


6. In what ways does the current structure fail to provide adequate links or communication between and among public services, technical services, systems and the library administration? How might the situation be improved?


7. Are there any services or operations that should be streamlined or eliminated?

8. What would you describe as the most striking characteristic of MIT Library culture? Is there something about the culture of the MIT Libraries (as opposed to the official structure) that you would like to see the Task Force address?

9. What alternative structure or organizational model might enable us to provide better service and make more efficient use of staff?


10. Other comments (for example, what other organizational issues should we be discussing?):



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