(via Stephanie Schulte, The Ohio State University)
Greetings:
Our team seeks to better understand how librarians or information professionals currently support basic or life science researchers. We are interested in learning more about your role with this community. Specifically, we are interested in learning if having a background in basic/life science improves your role, what has and has not been successful in developing a relationship with this community, and if your institution prefers a STEM background for your role.
We are contacting you because you have been identified as potentially working directly with basic or life scientists or are a member of a section/caucus/special interest group email list that is composed of librarians who may serve basic/life scientists.
This is a mixed methods study. Our survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Our recorded interview, which will take place virtually on Zoom, will take 30-45 minutes.
Our study was approved by the IRBs of all four investigators’ institutions.
We invite you to complete our short survey today and we will contact you about participating in the interview portion of the study.
Basic Science Librarians Study
If you have any questions about our study, please do not hesitate to contact our team.
Cordially,
Laura Lipke, Binghamton University State University of New York, llipke@binghamton.edu
Margaret Hoogland, The University of Toledo, margaret.hoogland@utoledo.edu
Stephanie Schulte, The Ohio State University, stephanie.schulte@osumc.edu
Jeremy Kupsco, Emory University, jkupsco@emory.edu