(via Dr. Ruth Small, Syracuse University School of Information Studies) This is a final call for Project ENABLE impact stories, as part of our current IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant. The purpose of these stories is to demonstrate how even small changes in the way you do your work, select your resources, redesign your spaces,…
Category: Studies on Library Trends
Call for Participation: Survey on Managing Exhibits Online During COVID-19 (Deadline Thurs., Feb. 10)
(via Pam Hackbart-Dean, University of Illinois Chicago) The University of Illinois Chicago and Southern Illinois University Carbondale are conducting a research survey of archivists, librarians, and museum curators to understand how online exhibits are being used and managed to support institutional and programmatic missions. The aim of this survey is to investigate current policies and…
Call for Submissions: Upcoming Chronicle of Higher Education Academic Libraries Report Highlighting Individual Librarians
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) Staff at The Chronicle of Higher Education are working on an upcoming report looking at the world of academic libraries. As part of that report, we want to showcase the people who work as librarians, in all their variety and diversity. Please send us an e-mail at librarian_report@chronicle.com, with the subject line “Librarians”…
Final Call for Participation: Survey on Streaming-Video Collections in Academic Libraries (Deadline Sun., Oct. 31)
(via Bonnie Thornton, Mississippi State University) Last call for participating in our survey! If you are a library employee at an academic institution of higher education in the United States, we invite you to participate in our research on how academic libraries manage their streaming-video collections. The purpose of our study is to explore the…
Reminder: Project ENABLE Seeking Examples of Library Initiatives to Increase Access for Users and Staff with Disabilities
(via Dr. Ruth Small, Syracuse University School of Information Studies) Project ENABLE is continuing to collect impact stories, as part of our IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant. The purpose of these stories is to demonstrate how even small changes can have a big impact on your patrons with disabilities. We are anxious to…
Call for Participation: Survey on Library Patrons and Conspiracy Theories
(via Stephanie Beene, University of New Mexico) Please see below for details of a research study that a colleague and I are conducting. This is a follow-up to our article “A call to action for librarians: Countering conspiracy theories in the age of QAnon”, and we hope to hear from you! You are invited to participate…
Call for Participation: Survey on “The Matter of Collegiality in Librarian Promotion and Tenure” (Closes Thurs., Sept. 30)
(via Jason Coleman, Kansas State University) You are invited to participate in a research survey titled, “The Matter of Collegiality in Librarian Promotion and Tenure”. The goal for this survey is to examine the prevalence, expression, and attitude towards the use of “collegiality” in the academic librarian promotion and tenure process. We are recruiting current tenured/tenure-track librarians for…
Call for Participants: Advisory Panel on Shared Print Copies
(via Helen Levenson, Oakland University) The Risk Research Working Group of the Partnership for Shared Book Collections invites your participation on an advisory panel looking at a tool for determining the number of copies of a title that a shared print consortium must commit to keeping in order to ensure the survival of at least one usable copy….
Final Call for Focus Group Participation: Student Success Librarians (July 27, 28, and 30)
(via Mallory Jallas, Illinois State University) We have a few spaces left for the last of our focus group sessions, on Tuesday, July 27; Wednesday, July 28; and Friday, July 30. Please consider participating. Academic librarians in the United States and Canada who are currently working as a Student Success Librarian are invited to participate in an hour-long…
Call for Participation: Survey on Employment and Job-Seeking Experiences of BIPOC Librarians (Deadline Wed., July 14)
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) On behalf of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, thank you for your interest in this survey. This survey is part of the project entitled “Telling Our Stories: Community Building and Leadership, Recruit and Retain Latinx to the Library…