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We are committed to improving your library services. Better understanding your expectations will help us tailor those services to your needs. We are conducting this survey to measure library service quality and identify best practices through the Association of Research Libraries' LibQUAL+® program. The survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. We want to thank you for your participation ahead of time. To access the survey go to: http://survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=737258 HELP JARRETT LIBRARY SOAR!

Each year the library selects twelve students for the honor of Student Workers of the Month. The students are nominated by the circulation staff and voted on by the entire library staff. For September/October 2008 the awards go to: Jingyi Chen (Annie) Annie is from China and her major is elementary education. According to Annie, "It's wonderful to work in the library. I enjoy this semester very much!" Jeremy Closs Jeremy Closs is a 22 year old Religion major/ Theatre minor at ETBU. He is a transfer student coming in from Washington Bible College, in Lanham, Maryland. His wife Danielle and he were married recently, on 8/8/08, and are settling in to their new Texas home. So far, the people are nice and the food is good. When he's not working at Jarrett Library or in class, Jeremy enjoys reading whatever catches his fancy, writing whatever pops into his head, or killing his brain cells with television (Heroes, LOST and The Colbert Report are current favorites). He also l...

For the first time Jarrett Library is participating in the LibQual+ survey. This survey was developed specifically for academic libraries and had been used throughout the United States to determine how well a library is doing. One of the things that makes this distinctive from other surveys is it asks the user what are your minimum requirements, what are you optimum requirements, and how is the library doing. This allows a library to concentrate on areas that are especially important to users and improve those areas. The more people we have completing the survey the better we will know how we are doing in the areas of service, collections, and facilities. To that end, we will be offering incentives to everyone who takes the survey. The incentives will include an iPod Shuffle as well as gift cards to area restaurants. If you are interested in qualifying for the incentive drawing simply input your email in the appropriate box at the end of the survey (it will not be tied to your survey a...