Library Surveys; Questionnaires

To determine whether present alxernatives in library education in Ohio are adequate to the educational demand, a study of potential enrollment for graduate programs in library science during the coming decade was conducted as part of the Graduate 4.ducatioa for Librarianship in Ohio Project. Library associates (protessicnal staff members without graduate degrees in library science) from public, academic, and special libraries-throughout Ohio, and librarians from the Ohio public school system without graduate degrees in iitrary science or educational media were surveyed as the most probable source of fature enrollments. Two questionnaires were aevelopea from the survey, one for library associates and the other for school librarians, and distributed to personnel in libraries arounu the state. Analysis of the data was restricted to descriptive statistics. Approximately 20 percent of each group surveyed had aeriaite plans t