Dear Colleagues,

I’m recruiting academic librarians and archivists to take an online survey about acquiring primary source material on conspiracy theories for research use. Your participation in this research project is completely voluntary. You must be at least 18 years old and be employed at an academic library or a special collections library/archive.

Your participation will take about 20 minutes. You will be asked to complete an online survey on your personal views. More detailed information on the procedures can be found on the survey website.

There are no risks or discomforts related to the study and subjects will not be paid. Possible benefits to the subjects and others include research and publications that can be used by librarians and archivists for decision-making in the workplace. Your alternative to participating in this research study is not to participate.

For questions or more information on this study, contact Kate Stewart, University of Kansas Libraries, at kate.stewart@ku.edu or 785-864-3339. The University of Kansas does not discriminate in any employment practice, education program or educational activity.

To take this survey and learn more about it, click on this link: kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ePquzLVsiJewaa

The survey will be open until April 20th, 2026. Thank you for your time!

Hello,

I am a graduate student in the Library Science Program at East Carolina University, and I am conducting a research study to explore collaborations that occur between community archives and traditional archival institutions. State, academic, and museum archives are increasingly interested in collaborating with community archives to help preserve and manage community archives’ records. There is evidence that community archives and traditional archival institutions manage, use and relate to archival records differently and these differences may affect the relationship dynamics during the collaborations.

I am inviting anyone who is a staff or volunteer of a community archive in the United States that has worked collaboratively with a state, academic, museum or other traditional archival institution to complete a brief survey asking about your experiences during the collaborative project. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

The survey will remain open until an adequate number of responses have been collected. Click here for the survey. Thank you for considering to participate in this study. Please direct any questions about the study to Sarah West (wests08@students.ecu.edu). 

Sarah West (she/her/hers)

College of Education, Department of Interdisciplinary Professionals, Library Science Program

East Carolina University

My colleagues and I would like to invite you to participate in a short survey that focuses on the education and experiences of new professionals who teach with primary sources. 

The purpose of this study is to learn more about the training, if any, those who teach with primary sources receive formally in grad programs or informally through mentoring, workshops, etc. Anyone over the age of 18 who is a new library or archives professional (<5 years in the field) is eligible to participate. If you decide to participate, you will be asked to answer approximately 25 multiple choice and free-response questions, which should take about 15 minutes to complete. Please do not put any information in your response that could be used to identify you. The informed consent and survey are available at towson.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9FYnjm8mvfa5rQW.

Data gathered by this survey will be shared with the Society of American Archivists and we are seeking to publish the aggregate results. Anticipated benefits of this study include greater insight into the background and needs of new professionals in regards to pedagogical training for archivists and librarians. 

The survey will be live until mid-April 2026. If you have any questions, please contact the Principal Investigator, Ashley Todd-Diaz (atodddiaz@towson.edu). 

Sincerely,

Ashley Todd-Diaz (atodddiaz@towson.edu)

Abigail Nye (anye@uwm.edu)

Josue Hurtado (josue.hurtado@temple.edu)

Lindsay Anderberg (landerberg@nyu.edu)

Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts (MMACINTO@depaul.edu)

My name is Manuel Mendez, and I’m leading a research project titled “Arturo Schomburg and Library and Information Science: A Multi-Method Analysis.” The project aims to explore the extent to which MLIS, PhD students, and faculty know about Arturo Schomburg’s library (bibliographic) and archival (curatorial) practices. 

Participants will be asked to complete a 20-minute survey questionnaire and an optional 20-30-minute follow-up interview. Participants will receive a $20 Tango card within 2 weeks. 

The study seeks to elucidate Arturo Schomburg’s LIS practices and to identify methods for integrating them into MLIS curricula. 

Involvement in this study is voluntary, and all responses will remain strictly confidential. Participants can withdraw from the study at any point. Stringent measures will be implemented to safeguard data integrity. 

You can sign up for the study by visiting our link below. If you have any questions, please contact the researcher directly at mduranme@umd.edu.

Participation link: https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_4T4eYQA6ryP4LKC 

Manuel Julio Durán Méndez, PhD Candidate

University of Maryland, College Park

College of Information

We are a faculty member and graduate student in the Information, Library and Research Sciences Department at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro, and we are conducting a research study to explore the practices and attitudes of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) refusal amongst academic library workers in the United States. This survey will ask you questions about your attitudes and practices related to generative AI at your workplace.

The survey is open to anyone who works in an academic or university library in the United States. If you are a paraprofessional, student worker, or professional librarian in an academic or university library, we welcome your participation. Employees at university, college, community college, and special or branch libraries at an academic institution qualify to participate in this survey. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

The survey is expected to take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Participation is totally voluntary, and respondents can stop filling out the survey at any point. At the end of the survey, you will be asked if you would like to participate in a follow-up interview to further elaborate on your thoughts on this topic; participation in the interview is also entirely voluntary. Respondents will not receive any compensation for filling out this survey, though this information may contribute to the development of policy recommendations to support AI refusal in academic libraries. Responses will be anonymized to protect participants’ privacy.

Please review the full information sheet on the next page. After reviewing this sheet, we will ask you to agree to participate in the survey.

Survey form

We are a group of archivists and librarians at Oberlin College working to quantify the impact of food in collections. We are asking you to consider participating in a brief Qualtrics survey about food in museum, library, or archival collections. The purpose of the survey is to assess inherent vice within different types of collections and its impact on preservation and conservation priorities. We are surveying librarians, curators, collections managers, conservators, and archivists from collecting institutions who are at least 18 years old and who currently work in the United States. 

Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary. Should you agree to participate in the survey, your responses will be kept confidential. Your anonymized data will be used for analysis. This study, Protocol AY25-26-ER-02, has been deemed exempt by Oberlin College’s institutional ethics board. For questions related to this survey and your rights as a participant or information about its IRB approval, please contact Associate Archivist Emily Rebmann (erebmann@oberlin.edu) or the Oberlin College Institutional Review Board, Cox 101, (440-775-8410) or email: ocirb@oberlin.edu.

To learn more about the project or to take the survey, please use this link. The Qualtrics survey will remain open until February 28, and we anticipate that it will take no more than 10 minutes to complete. 

Thank you for your consideration,

Emily Rebmann, Eugénie Fortier, and Gena Reynolds

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to participate in a study investigating emotionally adverse experiences among individuals donating personal materials to archives and special collections departments in the United States, as well as the emotionally adverse responses archivists observe during the donation process. By examining the nature and causes of these perspectives, this research seeks to expand the understanding of donor-archivist interactions and inform more empathetic, trauma-informed archival practices.

Survey Details

·       Estimated Time: 15-20 minutes

·       Format: Online survey

·       Eligibility: To qualify as a participant, you must have donated materials to an archives or special collections department in the United States or must be an archivist who has worked with donors in an archives or special collections department in the United States (an archivist can also be a donor). Participants should be between 25 – 75 years of age.

·       Security: The information that you give in the study will be anonymous. Your name and other information that could be used to identify you will not be collected or linked to the data. Raw data will be stored on UVA Box, a secure file storage system managed by UVA IT.

·       Survey period: The survey will close on June 30, 2025.

Begin the survey here: https://virginia.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bxTbH3l64LIPDng

If you have any questions about the study or the survey, please contact me at agreenwood@virginia.edu.

With warmest regards,

Amanda Greenwood

Archivist, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

University of Virginia