**Apologies for cross-posting**
Dear colleagues:
I need your help in reaching out to the librarians and staff that manage collections and ILL for your academic libraries. I am working with colleagues at my institution on a project that will hopefully help us as subject librarians as we try to serve our students, faculty and staff. Our survey aims to better understand current book acquisitions practices and preferences of academic libraries and how that might impact resource sharing in the long-term. We are hopeful that the results of our study will help contribute to the dialog among librarians about how to best prepare for serving our patrons in the future.
Thank you in advance for helping to increase participation in our survey. We look forward to sharing the results with you!
Best,
Amanda
Call for Survey Participation: ILL and eBooks
This study will address how current eBook trends and practices in libraries will impact the larger ecosystem of collections and resource sharing. These services have become essential to serving the research needs of faculty and students in higher education. The findings could help identify some limitations to these practices and predict negative consequences for academic libraries and researchers. This research project will hopefully help academic libraries gain insight into the future of library book collections and resource sharing and offer suggestions to improve that trajectory.
You are invited to complete an online survey that will take approximately 15 - 30 minutes to complete. Because these questions will require information from collections and ILL staff at your institution, please coordinate with each other to ensure that we only have one response per institution. Also, we will be asking questions related to collections budget and eBook expenditures so you might want to have that available when you begin the survey. Please select NA for any questions that do not apply. This Google folder contains a PDF with the survey questions to help you coordinate your responses. You may then access the survey at https://forms.gle/22GsXiLVbsh73vjo8. Please have only ONE submission of the survey from your institution.
We thank you for your participation!
Primary investigators:
Amanda Binder
Social Sciences and History Librarian, abinder3@uncc.edu
Elizabeth Siler
Associate Dean of Collection Services, esiler3@uncc.edu
Christine Beardsley
Interlibrary Loan Service Coordinator, cbeards1@uncc.edu
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Amanda Binder
Social Sciences + History Librarian
UNC Charlotte
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