(via Jason Lilly, Indiana University Health Medicine Library) Greetings from your Hoosier Colleagues, Planning is progressing rapidly for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association’s Midwest Chapter. This year’s event, themed “2022 in Bloom”, will take place in person from Saturday, October 22, to Monday, October 24, in Bloomington, Indiana. You will be hearing more frequently…
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Call for Participation: Survey on Partnerships Between Academic Libraries and Undergraduate Living Learning Communities (Deadline Fri., June 10)
(via Laura DeLancey, Western Kentucky University) We are conducting a study on partnerships between academic libraries and undergraduate Living Learning Communities (LLCs), hoping to identify best practices and common challenges. Whether or not your library partners with LLCs, we want to hear from you! Please take 10-20 minutes to complete our survey. To access the survey, please go here….
Call for Participation: Survey on Use of Apps in the Science Instruction Classroom (Deadline Fri., May 27)
(via Denise Wetzel, Pennsylvania State University) I am conducting a survey on the use of apps in the science instruction classroom. Apps for the purposes of this survey are defined as educational applications used on iphone, tablets, or computers that are designed to help learners succeed. Apps mentioned in the survey include, but are not…
Call for Participation: Survey on Impact of eBooks on Interlibrary Loan
(via Amanda Binder, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) This study will address how current eBook trends and practices in libraries will impact the larger ecosystem of collections and resource sharing. These services have become essential to serving the research needs of faculty and students in higher education. The findings could help identify some limitations…
Call for Participation: Survey About Privacy and Online Chat Reference Services
(via Jon Moore, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) We invite you to take a survey about privacy and online chat reference services. We’re seeking responses from any employee at an academic library who (1) is not an undergraduate student and (2) answers or oversees an online chat reference service. Participants must be age 18…
Call for Participation: Survey on Copyright and Access of Scholarly Materials in Academic Libraries
(via Zoe Mackey–Queens College, City University of New York) My name is Zoe, and I am a current graduate student at CUNY Queens College conducting research for my thesis project on copyright, access, and digital practices surrounding scholarly materials in academic libraries. I have created two surveys, one for academic librarians and one for undergraduate…
Call for Participation: The Librarian Parlor Survey on Experiences of Library Workers and MLIS Students (Deadline Fri., April 8)
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) The Librarian Parlor, aka @LibParlor, is a space for conversing, sharing expertise, and asking questions about the process of developing, pursuing, and publishing library research. Thanks to funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, we are building LibParlor Online Learning, an openly accessible and interactive online curriculum for academic library…
Call for Participation: Survey on Perceptions of Library and Information Science (LIS) Journal Editor Behaviors (Deadline Tues., April 19)
(via Christopher Hollister, University of Buffalo) You are invited to share your perceptions of library and information science (LIS) journal editor behaviors. The investigators are soliciting input from authors who have published papers in scholarly LIS journals. Collected data will be used to inform an exploratory analysis of how authors perceive specific positive and negative…
Call for Participation: ALA Emerging Leaders Project Team Survey on Identifying Trends in Online Learning and Virtual Reference in Academic Libraries (Deadline Wed., March 30)
(via Samantha Harlow, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) The ACRL-DOLS (Distance and Online Learning Section) and ULS (University Libraries) Emerging Leaders Project Team is interested in identifying trends in online learning and virtual reference in academic libraries. We invite you to complete this voluntary and anonymous survey. A summary of trends and changes will be shared…
Call for Participation: CARLI COUNTS Focus Group for Librarians Who Create Online Tutorials
(via Belinda Bolivar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Are you a librarian who creates online tutorials for your library? Librarians are needed to participate in a focus group about the tutorial-creation process, as a part of a CARLI COUNTS research project. Focus groups will be virtual and should last between an hour-and-a-half and two hours. More information…