Statistical Results for Health Sciences Library Microlab Survey - Fall 2003

Question 1: Your status with the UW:

Undergraduate Student

32

20.00%

19.75%

Graduate/Professional Student

121

75.62%

74.69%

Faculty

1

0.62%

0.62%

Staff/Medical Resident

5

3.12%

3.09%

Non-UW

1

0.62%

0.62%

DNR

2

N/A

1.23%

Question 2: What is your school affiliation?

Dentistry

10

6.29%

6.17%

Medicine

44

27.67%

27.16%

Nursing

16

10.06%

9.88%

Pharmacy

19

11.95%

11.73%

Public Health

46

28.93%

28.40%

Other

24 write-in answers:

Anthropology

Biochemistry

Both Medicine and Public Health

Dept of Biology

Engineering and Fisheries

Int'l Peace Relations

MCB

MEDEX

Medical Technology

Nutrition Student at Bastyr University

Occupational Therapy

Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy

Psychology

Rehab Medicine - Physical Therapy

applied math

landscape architecture

medical technology

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15.09%

14.81%

DNR

3

N/A

1.85%

Question 3: Which computer platform do you use most often in the Microlab?

PC

150

93.17%

92.59%

Mac

11

6.83%

6.79%

DNR

1

N/A

0.62%

Question 4: The workstations in the Microlab are replaced on a staggered 4-year rotation. So, at any time, students always have the option of using equipment that is less than two years old. What do you think about the timing of equipment replacement?

Equipment should be replaced more frequently.

18

11.46%

11.11%

The replacement schedule is just about right.

130

82.80%

80.25%

Equipment should be replaced less frequently.

7

4.46%

4.32%

Other

2 write-in answers:

new headphones

not sure of what else the money could be used for

1.27%

1.23%

DNR

5

N/A

3.09%

Question 5: The Macs in the Library are currently 4 years old. What is the best option for updating them?

Replace all 14 Macs with newer Macs.

41

29.93%

25.31%

Replace half the Macs with newer Macs and the other half with newer pcs.

80

58.39%

49.38%

Other, please specify.

16 write-in answers:

Don't replace the macs.

Get as many Macs as possible, keep some older ones for older versions of software.

I do not use them

Kill Macs

Replace 2/3 of the macs with pcs

Replace all 14 Macs with newer Macs, or at LEAST update to OS X.

Replace all with new unix-based macs. Windows users may like these. Do NOT use the circular mouses. They are disorienting.

Replace half, every 2nd year

Replace old ones with new ones and give the old ones to the poor family.

doesn't matter

don't feel equipped to comment

don't replace now if they are working fine since most of them seems to empty without much usage by anyone at all

don't use macs

have you noticed that unless all the PC's are in use there are never more than 3-4 people using the MACS? I think we only need 5 macs at most, replace the rest with PC's

replace all

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11.68%

9.88%

DNR

25

N/A

15.43%

Question 6: Would you support spending STF funds for any of the following software? Check all that apply.

ADAM Interactive Anatomy

52

37.68%

32.10%

Acrobat 6.0 upgrade - makes pdfs

75

54.35%

46.30%

Dreamweaver - web editor

21

15.22%

12.96%

EndNote 7.0 upgrade - organizes references and produces bibliographies

55

39.86%

33.95%

InDesign - designs print pages (was formerly named PageMaker)

18

13.04%

11.11%

Illustrator - graphic design tool for print or web

19

13.77%

11.73%

Omnipage Promakes pdfs, performs optical character recognition

15

10.87%

9.26%

Nutritionist Pro - performs nutrition analysis (was formerly Nutritionist V)

29

21.01%

17.90%

StatTransfer - transfers data between statistical analysis programs

50

36.23%

30.86%

Sequencher - tools for working with DNA sequence

23

16.67%

14.20%

DS Accord for Excel - chemistry enabled Excel spreadsheet

24

17.39%

14.81%

MacVector - sequence analysis package for the Macintosh

15

10.87%

9.26%

DS Gene - Windows counterpart of MacVector

14

10.14%

8.64%

DNR

24

N/A

14.81%

Question 7: Subscription based tools and databases for molecular biology are now becoming available via Web Browsers (see www.GeneSifter.net). Would you like to see the STF used to fund annual subscriptions to such Web-based tools and databases?

Yes

79

61.24%

48.77%

No

50

38.76%

30.86%

DNR

33

N/A

20.37%

Question 9: Would you support spending STF funds to purchase manuals for using Microlab software? These include manuals for Microsoft Office as well as for any requested software.

yes

64

42.38%

39.51%

no

87

57.62%

53.70%

DNR

11

N/A

6.79%

Question 10: Would you support spending STF funds to purchase software to maintain Microlab system stability? Proposed software includes Ghost to rebuild damaged machines and Norton SystemWorks to assist students in recovering lost files.

Yes

131

87.92%

80.86%

No

18

12.08%

11.11%

DNR

13

N/A

8.02%

Question 11: The Microlab peripheral equipment (e.g. scanners, printers, monitors) meets my needs.

strongly agree

30

19.23%

18.52%

agree

71

45.51%

43.83%

neutral

43

27.56%

26.54%

disagree

6

3.85%

3.70%

strongly disagree

6

3.85%

3.70%

DNR

6

N/A

3.70%

Question 13: Which computing tools do you use outside of the Microlab? Check all that apply.

PC

138

87.90%

85.19%

Mac

27

17.20%

16.67%

PDA (e.g. Palm or Win CE handheld)

55

35.03%

33.95%

Laptop

79

50.32%

48.77%

DNR

5

N/A

3.09%