Survey on delivery of preservation information

    **** Moderator's comments: Please respond directly to the
    addresses given below.

The National Preservation Office (NPO) is in the process of
reviewing both the mechanisms for delivery of its Information and
Enquiry Services and the nature of those services. Would you please
take the time to complete and return this short questionnaire.
Please return it to us by 30 August 2002. Many thanks for your help!

    1.  Have you used the NPO Enquiry Service?
        YES NO

    If you answered YES to question 1

        1a. How do you access the Enquiry Service?
            Letter
            Telephone
            E-mail
            Web

        1b. How would you prefer to access the Enquiry Service?
            Letter
            Telephone
            E-mail
            Web

        1c. How frequently do you use the Enquiry Service?
            Weekly/Monthly/Annually

    2.  Does your organisation currently subscribe to the NPO
        Journal?
        YES NO

        2a. If your organisation subscribes to the NPO Journal, do
            you read the NPO Journal regularly?
            YES NO

        2b. If your organisation subscribes to the NPO Journal, how
            many others read the NPO Journal regularly?
            Less than 5
            More than 5

    3.  If your organisation does not currently subscribe to the NPO
        Journal would you read it on the web, if free?
        YES NO

    4.  How would you like to receive the NPO Journal? (please
        answer once only)

        Print only on subscription (2 issues per annum) YES
            OR
        Web only no subscription (3 issues per annum) YES

    5.  How useful would you find a 'one-stop-shop' approach to
        obtaining preservation management information for archives,
        libraries and museums? E.g. via an internet portal
        Very Useful
        Not  Useful

        5b. IF we were to be able to offer a mediated* Information
            Service what should be included in the service? (* A
            mediated information service could provide information
            in a middle ground between reactive, individual
            once-only enquiries and the slower, peer-reviewed,
            relatively costly (in the case of print) generic
            information. Mediation imposes an active interface
            between information and recipient. The NPO would provide
            this interface by sifting and evaluating information and
            distributing it to defined communities.) E.g.
                Journal contents listing YES NO
                Bibliographies           YES NO
                FAQs                     YES NO

            Other topics or information you would like to see
            delivered through a mediated Information Service--please
            add as much detail as you wish:

    Name:
    Job Title:
    Address:
    Email:
    URL:

Please return the questionnaire by August 30, 2002

    npo [at] bl__uk,
    Fax: +44 20 7412 7796

Within the UK:

    National Preservation Office
    FREEPOST LON8974
    London WC1B 3BR

Non-UK:

    National Preservation Office
    The British Library
    96 Euston Road
    London NW1 2DB


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                  Conservation DistList Instance 16:12
                 Distributed: Tuesday, August 20, 2002
                       Message Id: cdl-16-12-022
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