{"id":18932,"date":"2026-04-09T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/?p=18932"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:39:29","slug":"final-reminder-research-survey-moral-injury-academic-library-workers-in-childrens-literature-spaces-closes-fri-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/final-reminder-research-survey-moral-injury-academic-library-workers-in-childrens-literature-spaces-closes-fri-may-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Reminder: Research Survey Moral Injury: Academic Library Workers in Children&#8217;s Literature Spaces Closes Fri., May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(via Dr. Dee Anna Phares, Northern Illinois University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the current sociocultural and political landscape, we invite academic library workers with responsibilities related to children&#8217;s literature collections in the United States to respond to the <em>Moral Injury: Academic Library Workers in Children&#8217;s Literature Spaces <\/em>survey that seeks to uncover potentially morally injurious events and reveal the impact it is having on their professional and\/or personal lives. This will encompass 1) your personal morals as well as beliefs of right and wrong, and 2) your interpretation of the morals and values of the library profession.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Access the survey <a href=\"https:\/\/illinoisstate.az1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_cZo0G1xdWqOdSlw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should you choose to participate in this study, you will be asked to answer questions aligned with a moral injury events scale and then be given the opportunity to elaborate on or describe the impact based on your level of comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know of an academic library worker who might be interested in sharing their experience, please feel free to forward the survey. The survey will remain open until <strong>Friday, May 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions or concerns may be directed to Caitlin Stewart at <a href=\"mailto:cjstew1@ilstu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cjstew1@ilstu.edu<\/a>. This study is conducted by academic librarians from Illinois State University, Northern Illinois University, New York University, and Indiana University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Dr. Dee Anna Phares, Northern Illinois University) Given the current sociocultural and political landscape, we invite academic library workers with responsibilities related to children&#8217;s literature collections in the United States to respond to the Moral Injury: Academic Library Workers in Children&#8217;s Literature Spaces survey that seeks to uncover potentially morally injurious events and reveal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-and-requests","category-studies-on-library-trends","category-surveys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18933,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18932\/revisions\/18933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}