Email Survey Announcemen

SUBJECT: Announcing the FY2016 State Library Administrative Agency data collection!
Dear Chief Officer:
IMLS is pleased to announce that the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA)
data collection will open in January 2017! We anticipate that the survey data will be released in Summer
2017, and statistical reports summarizing the results within one month of the data release.
What’s New?
Starting with FY 2012, the SLAA survey is being collected every other year. Other than a minor name
change (formerly StLA) though, the survey has changed very little from FY 2010. Please see the FY 2016
SLAA Survey Questionnaire and Instructions on the IMLS web site for your reference and to help you
begin gathering the data that will be collected in January: https://www.imls.gov/researchevaluation/data-collection/state-library-administrative-agency-survey.
We are pleased to announce that the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will continue working with
us on the FY 2016 SLAA collection. AIR is one of the largest social science research organizations in the
world and has been conducting social and behavioral research since 1946. AIR has a long history of
designing and supporting federal statistical surveys, particularly for the U.S. Department of Education,
and members of their SLAA team worked on the SLAA collection when it was sponsored by the National
Center for Education Statistics. The AIR SLAA team is currently designing the data collection web-tool
and implementing processes to collect and release the FY 2016 SLAA data in a timely manner.
What’s Next?
Later this year, you will receive emails from AIR providing additional information about the data
collection. Please add SLAA@air.org to your email “whitelist” or “safe-senders” list so that you do not
miss any important information about the SLAA survey.
Each SLAA should designate a contact person (Key Holder) for the FY 2016 survey. Please email
SLAA@air.org by COB December 5, 2016 with that person’s current contact information, including email
and phone.
Please let us know if you have questions about the survey or about the information that we will be
collecting from you. Watch for additional information about the FY 2016 SLAA data collection.
We look forward to working with you!
Sincerely,
Matthew Birnbaum, Ph.D.
Supervisory Social Science Researcher