(via Britt Fagerheim, Utah State University) The purpose of this research is to understand the extent of teaching anxiety among academic librarians and the impact of this anxiety and potential methods to help address or mitigate teaching anxiety. If you currently work in an academic library and have at least some component of teaching in…
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Call for Participation: Survey on Institutional Repository Funding for Health Sciences Libraries
(via Stacey Knight-Davis, Eastern Illinois University, on behalf of Brenda Fay, Advocate Aurora Health Library Network) We are medical librarians investigating Institutional Repository funding models in the health sciences for a poster we anticipate presenting at Midwest Chapter MLA in October 2019. For our purposes, an Institutional Repository (IR) is defined as an online platform…
Reminder: Survey on Academic Librarian Collaborations Closes Tuesday, May 7
(via Chelsea Sutton, PhD candidate at Dominican University’s School of Information Studies) Dear Colleagues, This is the second and final call for responses to a survey on academic librarian collaborations. This survey is part of a doctoral research study that aims to understand the roles of academic librarians within their institutions including the networks and relationships that…
Call for Participation: Survey on Academic Library Collaborations (Deadline May 7)
(via Chelsea Sutton, PhD candidate at Dominican University’s School of Information Studies) Dear Colleagues, You are invited to participate in a doctoral research study* about academic librarian collaborations. This study aims to understand the roles of academic librarians within their institutions including the networks and relationships that librarians form, institutional cultural components, and specific experiences…
Call for Participation: Survey on Library Liaison Services at Community Colleges (Closes April 30)
(via Mary Wahl, Pasadena City College) Help inform the current landscape of library liaison services at community colleges! If you are a librarian at a community college in the US, you are invited to participate in a brief survey about liaison services. The survey is expected to take 5-10 minutes to complete. About the study:…
ALA Working Committee on Eliminating Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Justice Seeking Input for Creating Toolkit (Deadline Friday, April 12)
(via Sarah Houghton, California Digital Library) I was recently appointed to the ALA Working Committee on Eliminating Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Justice. This group was formed as a result of the passage of a Resolution on Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Inequity at ALA Midwinter 2019. We are…
Call for Participants: Survey on Privacy Literacy Instruction (Deadline April 11)
(via Sarah Hartman-Caverly, on behalf of Alexandria Chisholm, both of Penn State University’s Berks campus) Greetings colleagues, You are invited to participate in a research study about privacy literacy instruction practices in academic libraries. We are interested in learning about what privacy topics are taught, in what instructional contexts it occurs, what teaching and learning…
Reminder: Academic Libraries in RAILS Service Area Encouraged to Complete Brief Survey (Deadline 5:00 PM CST on Friday, March 8)
(via Mary Witt, RAILS) During our 2018 strategic plan revision process, RAILS’ academic library members told us that they needed help telling their story and proving the value of the academic library to administrators, faculty, students, and other stakeholders. RAILS is working on a year-long campaign to help meet this need. As a first step,…
Call for Participation: Survey on Open Access Policies in Academic Libraries (Deadline March 15)
(via Rachel Scott, University of Memphis) We invite you to participate in study of open access policies in academic libraries tentatively titled, “Open Access as a Collections Strategy: Policy or Happenstance?” This study seeks to establish the extent to which OA is written into academic library policies. We expect this survey to take approximately ten…
Call for Participation: Survey on Challenges and Needs of Medical and Health Sciences Libraries
(via Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University) Greetings from the STM RA21 Hospital Clinical Access Library Working Group! We are conducting a study to learn the particular challenges and needs of hospital, health systems, and/or health center/clinic libraries with regard to authentication, technical support, and library resource access. This link leads to an…