UKIC UKIC Publications Questionnaire

Conservation News and Grapevine Readers' Survey
Submission Deadline: 16th November

If you include your contact details, you will be entered into a FREE draw for Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision-making by Chris Caple, kindly donated by Routledge

A review is being undertaken of UKIC's publications, Conservation News and Grapevine. Your contribution to this review would be most welcome as would a little of your time to complete this questionnaire. You can complete and submit it on this page, or you can download the Word version here and complete and return that by post, fax or e-mail to:

UKIC (CN/GV)
109 The Chandlery
50 Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7QY

E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 020 7721 8722

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Conservation News

1. Which parts of CN do you value most highly? (8 = most, 1 = least)


Features:    News:    Book Reviews:    Editorial:

Conference Reports:    Sections:    Letters:    Workshop Notes:


Which if any parts would you like to see

2. More of?
      3. Less of?
(to select more than one, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking on your choices)


4. Within the Section reports, which do you tend to read?
"Your" section:      "Your" section plus a few others:     Dip into any of them:
   None:

5. What is your main Section?



6. Do you like the division of reports on a Section-by-Section basis?  Yes:    No:


7. Do you think conference reports and book reviews should stay within the Section reports or would they be better in the body of CN?
Stay within the Section reports:    or   Better in the body of CN:


8. What changes, if any, would you like to see in the content of those reports?




9. Do you feel the present content of CN is
Too long?    Too short?    Just right?


Photographs:
10a. Are there enough?   Yes:    No:
10b. Is their quality good enough?   Yes:    No:
11. Would you welcome photographs in colour, provided the additional cost to UKIC is modest?   Yes:    No:


12. Do you feel the style and content of CN reflects the kind of organisation UKIC ought to be?
Yes:    No:    13. Comments?

14. If "No", is that because you think UKIC should be different or because just CN should be different, or both?
UKIC should be different:    or   Just CN should be different:    or   Both should be different:


15. If UKIC/CN/both should be different, how should UKIC/CN/both be different?



News coverage
16. Is the news coverage Not enough?    Too much?    About right?


17. Would you like more news which is relevant but possibly tangential to conservation, e.g. about museums, galleries, libraries and archives; developments in government departments, e.g. DCMS, EH, Historic Scotland?
Yes:    No:    Don't mind:

18. CN currently carries no news about paper/parchment/books (this being the province of IPC and Society of Archivists)
Would you welcome an insight into that territory?

Yes:    Short Abstract & Source:    No:    Don't mind:

19. What else would you like covered which is not?



Format, presentation:
20. What if any changes would you welcome?


Frequency:
21. We are thinking of combining CN and GV into a single bi-monthly publication.
Do you approve?    Disapprove?    Don't mind?



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Grapevine

22. Please grade how useful you find Grapevine (5=very useful, 1=not at all useful):



What if anything would you welcome more of or less of?
23. More of:

24. Less of:



25. Please use this space for any additional comments you wish to make on either publication



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The Web site

26. Are you aware that CN and GV are available on the UKIC website?   Yes:    No:

27. Do you read CN or GV on the web?    CN:     GV:

28. If you read either on the web, do you also read the printed versions?   Yes:    No:

29. If not previously, would you now read them on the web?   Yes:    No:

30. Any other comments about the Web site?



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You

Please complete if you wish to enter the prize draw, or if you are happy for us to contact you:

Your name:

Your institution or business:

Your telephone number and
e-mail address


What other professional or other conservation-based newsletters or periodicals do you read?



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Your contribution

31. Have you ever written an item for CN?   Yes:    No:

32. Would you write an item if you had something to write about?   Yes:    No:

33. If "yes", may we approach you on occasion for a contribution?   Yes:    No:


Now, please read the Data Protection Statement before submitting this form...

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Data Protection Statement
The data submitted using this form will be held on computer and processed solely to enable UKIC to review its publications strategy for Conservation News, Grapevine and the Web site. If you have chosen not to submit your name and contact details, your responses will be held as anonymous data and thus do not come under the terms of the UK Data Protection Act 1998. If you have submitted your name and contact details, these will only be used to contact you in relation to this survey and the prize draw and, if you have answered "yes" to the final question, to approach you for a possible contribution or contributions to UKIC publications. None of this data, whether anonymous or including personal details, will be passed to any third party, except that the anonymised aggregate results of this survey may be made publicly available at some time in the future, and the prize draw winner's details will be passed to Routledge to enable the delivery of the prize. The Data Controller for this activity is UKIC. If you have any concerns about the processing of this data please contact UKIC using any of the following means:

Post:
UKIC
109 The Chandlery
50 Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7QY

E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 020 7721 8721
Fax: 020 7721 8722


Thank you for taking the trouble to complete this questionnaire!

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