(via Elizabeth Szkirpan, University of Tulsa) This is the final call for responses to take the survey over the impact of COVID-19 on technical-services units and tasks. This survey is open to library employees working in the United States who are a member of a technical services unit or a role that completes technical-services tasks…
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Call for Feedback: Current Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States and Explanatory Supplement (Deadline Tues., Nov. 30)
(via the ALA RUSA STARS Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee) This is a reminder that the ALA RUSA STARS Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee needs your feedback concerning the current Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States and its Explanatory Supplement. Under current RUSA guidelines, the ILL Code and Supplement are reviewed and updated regularly. As part of the…
Call for Participation: Survey on Perceptions of, and Experiences with, Technology in Modern Libraries (Deadline Tues., Nov. 30)
(via Michelle Lenox, Pacific University) We invite you to participate in a survey of the perceptions of and experiences with technology in modern libraries in the United States. You have been invited to complete this survey because you work in libraries or are a library student. The survey will take about 10-15 minutes to complete…
Final Call for Participation: Survey on Library Instruction and Critical Thinking Activism in a Post-Truth World
(via Laureen Cantwell, Colorado Mesa University) This is the final call to participate in a survey on library instruction and critical thinking activism in a post-truth world. More details, including the link to the survey, are below. Note: We ask a few things about institution, job role, etc. – we do not ask any identifying info,…
Call for Participation: Survey About the Impact of COVID-19 on Technical-Services Units (Deadline Sat., Jan. 1)
(via Elizabeth Szkirpan, University of Tulsa) I am conducting a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on technical-services units and librarians who share technical tasks (e.g. school librarians who may be cataloging books for their libraries) and aims to learn more about the changes that occurred or did not occur as a direct result of…
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…
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 Feedback: Future of ACRL Awards Program (Deadline Fri., Oct. 29)
(via Merinda Kaye Hensley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) At its January 2021 meeting, the ACRL Board of Directors approved a proposal to pause ACRL’s awards program and appointed a task force to undertake a critical review of the program and make recommendations for its future. This pause presents an opportunity to ensure all ACRL awards align with the…
Call for Participation: Survey About COVID-19’s Impact on Archives and Special Collections
(via Zachary Stein, University of Louisiana at Lafayette) NOTE: This is a revised version of the survey “Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Archives and Special Collections”. The survey has been updated to include archivists from multiple kinds of institutions. For those who completed the first survey, I invite you to fill out this new one, as…
Reminder: Survey on Racial Equity and Allyship in LIS Closes Thurs., Sept. 30
(via Dr. Lisa Hussey, Simmons University) We are asking for participation in our research on Allies in LIS. Addressing and understanding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is essential to the future of LIS and an important part of EDI work is the role of allies in supporting and EDI throughout LIS. In our research, we are…