I have discovered either a) a new mania that only librarians suffer or b) a new law of motion that says a librarian will research a question until acted upon by another research question.

I started by looking for past surveys and studies into the information literacy skills of faculty.  The first fork in the road led me to surveys about how faculty perceive librarians as instructors of information literacy and finally I found studies into faculty awareness (or lack thereof) of the library and what it does.  I would still be traveling along this road had I not been given another "research question".  Pick a date for my portfolio and oral examination.  Now I must research my calendars.

Despite this, I do feel I am making progress in understanding my task.  I have found several surveys that give me ideas about the structure of my survey.  Friday is slow at my library so I will spend some time inviting people to sit at my "assessment table".