Thank you for your interest, but this questionnaire is now closed. Please see our news item to learn about the results and download the Executive Summary.
Dear music library user,
The Music Libraries Trust exists to support education and research into music libraries in the UK and Ireland. We know there is an urgent need to bring the future of our music libraries to greater public attention. Amateur music making in the UK is one of our most precious assets and your local libraries play an invaluable role in this. Right now, all performing organisations are in lockdown, but we need to look ahead to be prepared for the future.
We have commissioned Dr. Michael Bonshor to run two surveys to collect the most up-to-date data on how you use your local library. We would be so grateful if you would kindly take the time to answer in as much detail as you can.
To take part in the survey, you can complete an online questionnaire, which is designed to:
Obtain information about current use of music libraries
Explore areas of satisfaction and dissatisfaction amongst music library service providers and service users
Identify any requirements for practical changes in resources and service provision
Extrapolate potential strategies for ‘future proofing’ music library services
Complete the music library user questionnaire [now closed]
Do you work in a music library? Learn about our library staff questionnaire. [now closed]
Children participating in a Westminster Music Library project
We appreciate you may be working from home, perhaps isolated or perhaps trying to keep the children from boredom and frustration. But we hope you agree that these next few weeks provide a window of opportunity before the summer break. Every question here has been weighed and assessed for its usefulness and your feedback will mean we can be armed with accurate data for promoting the future of our music libraries.
If you need to answer the questions in instalments, you will be able to keep saving your responses and return to the questionnaire later, rather than having to finish it all in one sitting. However, we have conducted a pilot study to ensure that the questionnaire is user-friendly and not excessively time consuming. We hope that you will enjoy it!
The questionnaires close at 9am on Monday 3 August. We will keep you informed on the results and on our next steps.
Finally we would like to express our gratitude to the Postlethwaite Music Foundation who have awarded the Music Libraries Trust a grant of £1000 towards the cost of this research.
With many thanks in advance,
Sally Groves MBE
Chair, Music Libraries Trust