Recruiting Librarians to participate in a Focus Group

**Please excuse cross-posting** The challenge continues to illustrate the value of medical and special libraries to patrons, leadership, and stakeholders. Currently testimonials and one-time surveys are the most frequent methods used to illustrate the impact of libraries and librarians. My research proposal is to incorporate measures of library impact to current reference

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Research Participation Opportunity: Virtual Reference in Health Sciences Libraries in the Time of COVID-19

**apologies for cross posting. If you do not work in reference services, please consider passing on to the head of your reference services** Dear colleagues, We invite all medical and health sciences librarians to participate in a research study including a survey about virtual reference. We are investigating how virtual reference services

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Survey Invitation: A Survey on Professional Association Membership Diversity, Recruitment, and Retention

Greetings!Tulane University, University of Michigan, and University of Washington are conducting a research survey of the information professional community to find out what motivates professional association membership. The insight you provide will help us to better recommend strategies to improve association membership diversity, recruitment, and retention.Filling out the survey won’t take long:

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Research Survey: Virtual Reference in Health Sciences Libraries in the Time of COVID-19

Dear colleagues,We invite all medical and health sciences librarians to participate in a research study including a survey about virtual reference. We are investigating how virtual reference services have changed during the time of COVID-19. How health sciences librarians are utilizing virtual reference services including chat/instant messaging, email, text messaging, and video

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Inviting all parents/guardians who are caregivers of minor children to share your story!

[Apologies for cross–posting] Dear MAC MLA members, Our research team is collecting stories to learn about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parent/guardian library employees who are the primary caregivers of minor children. We are now collecting your anonymous stories, please consider sharing with us!  To share your story, please complete the consent

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REMINDER Survey on medical and health sciences librarian community and co-authorship experiences

Good afternoon, We are conducting a research study of the medical and health sciences librarian community; we are investigating the experiences of librarians as co-authors on research, as well as challenges they may face. Many librarians within this field of librarianship are expected by their employers to participate in high-level research and

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