Informal Storytime Workload Survey

The other day on Twitter I asked:

I'm curious–what's an average "storytime workload"? How many storytimes do you do per week? Alternatively, [1/2]

— Melissa Depper (@MelissaZD) March 5, 2014

[2/2] …How many storytimes in your branch or district are covered by how many trained staff? Thanks!

— Melissa Depper (@MelissaZD) March 5, 2014

I had a wonderful set of answers! A very rough average [ed: oops, wrong math term] mode was 2-3 per staff member, but the range went from 2 all the way up to 15! Per week! Lisa and I got to chatting about how, as a manager, she wanted to know what was a reasonable number of programs to set as expectations for her staff, but that the data as to professional norms just wasn’t available. She said,

@MelissaZD That's going to be my big ? as I talk to people @ PLA. What do you do with what staff-what's a good min and what's a max?

— Lisa Mulvenna (@lmulvenna) March 5, 2014

So we thought we’d toss up a really informal survey to see if we could get her some responses before she went to the conference. This is where you come in! If you present storytimes at your library, please take this survey. It’s just seven questions, quick pull-down or multiple choice responses, with one optional “tell us what you want” comment area at the end. If you responded to my survey on Twitter, please take a minute to put your answers here too. This is a really limited tool so we aren’t asking for service area, geographic region, size of library, etc, because we can’t manipulate the data too much. If you are a library student looking for a research project, please take this idea and run with it!

Thanks all!

Informal Storytime Workload Survey