[Wactclc-alma] FW: Reminder, Survey Invitation: Impact of Alma on Technical Services Organization

[Guidry, Wade]

This looks like an interesting opportunity for those of you involved in technical services.

You can participate in a project from University of Reno about the impact of Alma on technical services.

Also, because I looked at the UNR library web site to see more about them, they’ve got an interesting way of presenting their lendable technology:

Lendable Technology | University Libraries | University of Nevada, Reno (unr.edu)<https://library.unr.edu/resources/lendable-technology>



Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager, WACTCLC
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
(509) 760-4474
http://www.wactclc.org<http://www.wactclc.org/>

From: Alma <alma-bounces at exlibrisusers.org> On Behalf Of Emily Boss via Alma
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 10:30 AM
To: Alison Sinclair via Alma <alma at exlibrisusers.org>
Cc: Emily Boss <eboss at unr.edu>
Subject: [ALMA-L] Reminder, Survey Invitation: Impact of Alma on Technical Services Organization

CAUTION: Originated outside our network. Do not click links or open attachments unless you validate the sender.



If you have completed the survey and it did not ask you for your contact information, please resubmit. There was a logic flaw in the first ten minutes of the survey being live.​



You are invited to participate in a research study on technical services organizational structure in academic libraries that have recently migrated to the Alma library services platform. For the purpose of this study, “technical services” is being defined as the unit of a library that manages acquisitions; collection development; organization and description of library resources; and access to and discovery of library resources. It may include only some of these areas of responsibility or may include additional library departments. The purpose of this study is to understand perspectives on technical services organization in academic libraries before and after a migration to the Alma library services platform.



If you meet the following qualifications, please consider participating in our study:

  *   Your library migrated to Alma within the past 5 years
  *   You work in a technical services (or equivalent) unit in an academic library in the United States
  *   You worked at your institution over the course of the migration to Alma, including onboarding, implementation and go-live

We will be conducting interviews with study participants via Zoom. The interviews will be no longer than 1 hour. We hope to have 8-12 participants. If more than 12 individuals volunteer, we will select participants on the following criteria, with the goal of obtaining data from a variety of institutions:

  *   Carnegie status
  *   Student FTE
  *   Public or private
  *   Type of institution (Associate, Baccalaureate, Master, or Doctorate)
If you are interested in participating in the study, please complete this survey: https://unr.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Z8JM0IC8nZXw6q. The survey will take less than 5 minutes to complete. The survey will close on June 28, 2022. Participants will be selected and contacted to schedule interviews by July 12, 2022.

The interviews may collect identifiable information (such as department or unit names and job titles), but no individual or institution names will be used in sharing study results and data will be anonymized as much as possible. The study presents no risks to participants. You may exit the survey at any time without submitting your responses. Interview participants will be able to withdraw at any time.
Please share this invitation with colleagues that may be interested in participating.


If you have questions, please contact one of the co-investigators: Molly Beisler (abeisler at unr.edu<mailto:abeisler at unr.edu>) or Emily Boss (eboss at unr.edu<mailto:eboss at unr.edu>).
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ctc.edu/pipermail/wactclc-alma_lists.ctc.edu/attachments/20220622/153abbb6/attachment.html>