(via Anita Hall, University of Louisville) Do you convene, facilitate, or otherwise work with an Advisory Board at your library? If so, you are invited to participate in a research study seeking to determine the prevalence, composition, and value of advisory groups for academic libraries in 2022 and make recommendations for modernization of and inclusivity…
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Call for Participation: Survey on Academic Library Services, Including COVID-19 Impact, for Non-Degree-Seeking Older Adults
(via Giovanna Badia, McGill University) My colleague, April Colosimo, and I are interested in learning more about academic library services for non-degree-seeking older adults who are pursuing lifelong learning opportunities. We are also interested in the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on these services. We are looking for survey participants from academic libraries…
Call for Participation: Research Survey on Critical Information Literacy at Academic Institutions
(via Simone Williams, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Simone Williams, Assistant Professor and Diversity and Engagement Librarian and Elizabeth Kamper, Assistant Professor and Information Literacy Librarian at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is inviting you to participate in a research study. The goal of this research study is to collect data to determine threat levels to implementing…
Call for Participation: Research Study on the Use of Design Thinking in Library Settings
(via Sarah Allison, Ball State University) Dear Colleagues, Have you participated in the design thinking process within a library setting? Have you used design thinking for problem-solving needs or remodeling of library spaces? Have you used design thinking to refine your library public services? We are working on exploratory research about how design thinking is…
Call for Participation: Research Survey Measuring Academic Librarians’ Teaching Self-Efficacy Beliefs (Deadline Fri., July 29)
(via David Lemmons, George Mason University) We are writing to ask you to participate in a research survey measuring academic librarians’ teaching self-efficacy beliefs. The purpose of this study is to test a scale for measuring teaching self-efficacy of librarians working in higher education. Any person working in an academic library with teaching responsibilities is…
Call for Participation: Pre-Screening Survey for Study on the Phenomenon of Caring Relations Among Academic Librarians Engaged in Research/Reference Assistance
(via Laureen Cantwell, PhD student at University of Buffalo) Dear academic librarians, My name is Laureen Cantwell, and I am a PhD student in the Information Science program, within the Graduate School of Education, at the University at Buffalo. I am conducting a research study exploring the phenomenon of caring relations among academic librarians engaged…
Call for Participation: Survey on Archivists’ and Librarians’ Preferences for In-Person vs. Virtual Conferences (Deadline Wed., Aug. 31)
(via Dr. Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Associate Dean at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Morris Library) Dr. Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm of Southern Illinois University Carbondale Morris Library is conducting a research survey of archivists and librarians to investigate preferences for in-person and/or virtual conference attendance before and during the past two years and looking ahead to the…
Reminder: Feasibility Study for Medical/Health Humanities Engagement Within Libraries Still Open
(via Laureen Cantwell-Jurkovic, Colorado Mesa University & Western Colorado Community College) Link to Participate: here The Purpose of this Survey (Protocol: 22-49): In preparing the manuscript for an edited volume about academic librarians and the health humanities, the survey author felt a chapter regarding the feasibility of medical and health humanities engagement for librarians, libraries,…
Call for Participation: Survey on Book and Material Challenges in Academic Libraries
(via John Siegel and Jonathan Newton, University of South Carolina Upstate) We are conducting a research survey on the preparedness of academic libraries to handle book and material challenges. If you are a librarian, library assistant/staff member, or administrator at an academic library within the United States, please consider taking this survey. The survey will…
Call for Participation: “Survey on Library Support for People with Disabilities” (Deadline Mon., June 20)
(via Nancy Bolt–Chair, IFLA Retired Members Round Table) The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is looking at how the needs of people with disabilities are being met in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We are pleased that UN DESA thought to ask IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations…