The 2005 Continuing education Survey: What Science Librarians Want to Know

Abstract

The biennial STS continuing education survey was conducted at the end of 200: in collaboration with two other organizations of science librarians. The top continuing education needs of science librarians include new technologies, professional development and keeping current, institutional repositories/digital archives, promoting science information literacy, collaboration between faculty and librarians, and finding free high-quality online data. This paper describes the process of developing and administering the survey and discusses the survey results.