Category: Surveys

(via Kristina Clement, Kennesaw State University) The Kennesaw State University Library System would like to invite librarians and library staff members of academic institutions who consider themselves as “middle managers” to participate in a study examining the effects of “middleness”. Middle managers might experience degrees of middleness–that is, the point along the continuum of middle…

(via Alice Daugherty, The University of Alabama) If you have an MLIS or equivalent degree from an ALA-accredited institution and are currently employed as a professional librarian in a Technical Services role in an academic library, we invite you to participate in this survey. The purpose of the study is to examine librarians’ perceptions on…

(via Matthew Johnson–University of California, Los Angeles) Matthew Johnson, MSLS, from the Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, is conducting a research study about feelings of job control and burnout among academic librarians who have at least some instructional responsibilities. If you are an academic librarian with at least some instructional responsibilities, I invite your…

(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…

(via Heather VanDyne, Fort Hays State University) If you are a community college librarian at a rural institution this message is for you. Participants are needed in a study examining information literacy instruction practices at rural two-year institutions over the last three years. Any person working in an academic library with instruction duties is encouraged…