(via Anna Ferri, Roseman University of Health Sciences) Dear Current, Former, or Future Library Worker, We are contacting you to request your participation in a research study titled “Personal Identity of Chronically Ill Health Sciences Library Workers”, reviewed and approved as exempt research by the Texas Christian University Institutional Review Board and the University of…
Day: September 6, 2022
Legislative News – September 06, 2022
Federal White House requests $22.4B in COVID-19 funding, $3.9B in monkeypox funding (The Hill, 9/2/22) White House requires immediate public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025 (Science, 8/26/22); see also Office of Science and Technology Policy public access memo (8/25/22) and Breakthroughs for All: Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research (OSTP blog, 8/25/22)…
Call for Submissions: ACRL Instruction Section Newsletter (Deadline Mon., Sept. 19)
(via Maya Hobscheid, Grand Valley State University) The IS Newsletter is soliciting content! We would love to have your content that addresses one or more of the following topics. Active learning techniques Learning object creation Student learning outcomes & pedagogy Assessment Instructional design (online, universal, backward, accessibility, etc.) Instruction for specific populations (e.g., faculty, international…
Call for Participation: Survey on Academic, Public, and Special Library Services for Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People
(via Dr. Jeanie Austin, San Francisco Public Library) As part of San Francisco Public Library’s Mellon-funded Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People project, a group of researchers are attempting to identify academic, public, and special library services that libraries outside of jails, juvenile detention centers, and prisons provide to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. We’ve…