Name:

Organizational affiliation:

Organizational address (very important if your organization has multiple 
offices):

Title:

E-mail address:

Telephone:

Fax:
                                                        
1.  Do you plan to attend the consultation June 6-7?    Yes ___  No ___

2.  If you cannot attend, would you like to receive     Yes ___  No ___
a followup report on the consultation?

3.  What is your primary role in missions research?
        ____ librarian
        ____ information specialist
        ____ researcher
        ____ other, please specify: ___

4.  What are your major areas of SUBJECT/TOPICAL INTEREST?  Please be as 
specific as you can and highlight with asterisks (***) your areas of special 
expertise.

Please use the sample categories below or add categories as needed.
   
- people/ethnic group(s):
- language group(s):
- geographical area(s):
- religious system(s):
- ministry focus(es):
        e.g. health; development; translation; TESOL; education; etc.   

- other:


5.  What TYPES/METHODS OF RESEARCH do you use now or would like to 
become familiar with?  

Please describe in two or three sentences your level of interest or 
expertise (***) in each of the following areas.

- database development, e.g. collection, entry, analysis of data

- database use, e.g. computer database searching (Dialog; BRS; Carl UnCover; 
OCLC, 20:21 Library, mapping software, etc.) 

- use of published sources, e.g. dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, 
bibliographies, etc.

- other:


6.  What critical issue(s) would you like discussed in this consultation?


7.  On what topic(s) could you lead a discussion or breakout group?


8.  What organizations, institutions, etc. would you consider to be 
ESSENTIAL members of a Global Missions Information Network?


9.  Additional comments, questions, suggestions:


FOR INDIVIDUALS WORKING IN A LIBRARY OR RESEARCH CENTER FOCUSING
ON MISSIONS AND WORLD EVANGELIZATION,
please continue with the next section.

                MISSIONS LIBRARY/RESEARCH CENTER SURVEY
                ---------------------------------------
NAME OF YOUR LIBRARY/RESEARCH CENTER:

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION/LOCATION:

LS1.  LOCAL ACCESS to your collection:

LS1.1   Are you open to the public?                     Yes ___  No ___
LS1.2   If no, do you allow limited use?                Yes ___  No ___
LS1.3   If limited use is allowed, who does a 
        researcher contact for permission to visit?
        Name:
        Telephone:

LS2.  DISTANT ACCESS to the holdings in your collection:

LS2.1   Do you have a online catalog?                   Yes ___  No ___
LS2.2   Is it available via the Internet?               Yes ___  No ___
        If yes, specify Internet address:__
LS2.3   Is it available via modem?                      Yes ___  No ___
        If yes, specify telephone number:__

LS2.4   Is your catalog available in another machine-readable format?
        If yes, what format?

LS3.    WORLD WIDE WEB

LS3.1   Does your organization have a www home page?    Yes ___  No ___
LS3.2   If yes, does it point to external resources?    Yes ___  No ___

LS4.    INTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICE

LS4.1   Do you loan items through interlibrary loan?    Yes ___  No ___
LS4.2   Are your holdings listed in an international
        database like OCLC, RLIN, etc.?                 Yes ___  No ___
LS4.3   If yes, which database(s)? __

LS5.    IN-HOUSE RESEARCH PROJECTS

LS5.1   Do you allow outside access to this research?   Yes ___  No ___
LS5.2   Would members of the missions community have 
        unrestricted access to most of your in-house 
        research (>75%)?                                Yes ___  No ___

LS6.    COLLECTION STRENGTHS

LS6.1   What are the subject specializations of your library/research center?

        ** Please be as specific and detailed as you have time to be. **

- people/ethnic group(s):
- language group(s):
- geographical area(s):
- religious system(s):
- ministry focus(es):
        e.g. health; development; translation; TESOL; education; etc.

- non-English language materials:


LS6.2  What, if any, special indexes have you developed for accessing 
materials in your collection?


LS7.    PUBLICATIONS

LS7.1   What does your library/research center publish/distribute to assist 
researchers?

LS7.2   What publications does your organization as a whole offer the 
missions research community?

LS8.    BEST SOURCES FROM YOUR ORGANIZATION

LS8.1   What are the three or four best resources or services your center 
or organization offers the church/missions community at large? 

LS9.    IMPORTANT INFORMATION SOURCES FOR MISSION RESEARCHERS

LS9.1   As an information provider/reference librarian, what are three or 
four of the best (most useful, most cost effective) sources or services 
you've discovered which meet the information needs of your organization?  

LS10.   COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS:
Thanks for taking the time to complete this survey.
The results will be available at the time of the ISC meeting.

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