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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Survey of Librarians and Virtual Library Conferences</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">We want to find out what librarians think of virtual conferences as compared to in-person conferences and what may influence those preferences. My name is Sarah Dennis and I am a librarian researcher
at Texas A&M University who will be investigating these responses and writing a research paper based on the responses received. The data collected here, may be shared with professional library organizations. Responses will not be personally identifiable.
The survey should take no more than 10-20 minutes to complete. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">For the purpose of this study we are looking for respondents who work in the library or scholarly publishing field, are aged 18 years or older, and attend library conferences, virtual or in-person. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">This survey includes a consent statement. If you are interested in participating, please read and agree to the consent statement, then fill out this short survey. To get started, please click on this
link, </span><a href="https://tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5zoY9nmpFXOQv6S" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);text-decoration-line:underline">https://tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5zoY9nmpFXOQv6S</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">This survey will be closed on October 1, 2021, 11:59pm. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">If you would like more information or have questions or concerns please contact the Primary Investigator, Sarah Dennis, Texas A&M University Libraries, 979-845-0058,
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Thank you,</span></p>
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