(Please excuse any cross-posting.) This is a follow-up reminder that we are still accepting responses from LIS students for the survey below. The deadline to submit is November 21, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Time.
Thank you to LIS students who have responded to this survey and to those who have already shared our survey with LIS students in your networks.
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Researchers at the University of Maryland are conducting a survey on library and archives student workers who are enrolled in Master's programs in library and information science. The survey is measuring their perceptions of how student jobs are preparing LIS students for a professional career in libraries or archives.
This survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
In order to take the survey, you must:
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Be at least 18 years old
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Be currently enrolled in an American Library Association-accredited Master's program at a university located in the United States (including Puerto Rico) or Canada
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Currently have at least one job in a library or archive that requires you to be a student in order to be in your job role
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Examples of student jobs include: hourly student worker, graduate assistantship, internship, fellowship, apprenticeship, practicum, field study, co-op program, or work-study program
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NOT currently have one full-time job (35-40 hours per work week) in a library or archive that can be held by non-students
Survey link: https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_8oFRbf7nkIcZtWK
Please fill out this survey before November 21, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian time.
This survey has been approved by the University of Maryland's Institutional Review Board under project number 2367228-1.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Andrea Schuba
aschuba@umd.edu
301-405-9067
Or
Franklin Ofsthun
ofsthun@umd.edu
301-738-6226
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Aaron M. Wilson
He/Him/His
Serials/Government Information Cataloging Librarian
University of Maryland, College Park
2025 Emerging Leader
2022 Spectrum LIRT Scholar
Chair, GODORT Education Committee (2024-2025)
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