[Metadatalibrarians] Survey Invitation: COVID-19 and academic library technical services operations/management

[Weng, Cathy]

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to participate in a research study about the
response of academic library technical services to the current COVID-19
pandemic, especially with regard to its impact on the organization and
nature of technical services operations and management. Our primary purpose
is to study changes that have been made in technical services workflows and
operations and explore lessons learned from the disruption of technical
services during the new global pandemic. For this online survey linked
below, technical services are defined as consisting primarily of
acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, digitization and preservation,
electronic resources, and serials. The survey below will take about 10
minutes of your time to complete.

Please *take the survey here
<https://tcnj.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N1TPOqwytMjv93>*.

Please respond by Friday, October 23, 2020.

This study is being conducted by Cathy Weng, Head, Technical Services,
Brown University; and Yuji Tosaka, Cataloging/Metadata Librarian, The
College of New Jersey. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.
If you have any questions, please contact them at cathy_weng at Brown.edu or
tosaka at tcnj.edu. Thank you for considering participation in this study.
This study has been approved by The College of New Jersey Institutional
Review Board, Study no. IRB-2020-0320.


Sincerely,

Cathy Weng
Head, Technical Services
Brown University Library
cathy_weng at brown.edu

Yuji Tosaka
Cataloging/Metadata Librarian
The College of New Jersey
tosaka at tcnj.edu