Surveys are used to do which of the following?

• A. Conduct in-depth interviews with individuals
• B. Efficiently collect responses from large user samples
• C. Analyze financial statements
• D. Process interlibrary loan requests

Answer: (B)

Surveys are designed to gather information from a large group of people quickly by asking a standardized set of questions. This standardization makes it easy to compare responses and analyze patterns across many respondents, which is ideal when you want efficient data collection from a broad user sample. The goal is breadth and generalizable insights, achieved with relatively low cost and effort per respondent.

Other activities described involve deeper, qualitative dialogue with individuals, or specific operational tasks that don’t focus on collecting broad feedback from many users. In-depth interviews explore individual experiences in depth, while analyzing financial statements or handling interlibrary loan requests serve different purposes related to financial analysis and library operations.