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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">You are invited to participate in a research study on the management and maintenance of discovery services* in academic and public libraries. If you are involved in management
or maintenance of discovery services in academic or public libraries, or have knowledge about how discovery is managed in your institution, please consider completing the survey. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Examples of discovery services include, but are not limited to, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO, Summon from ProQuest, Primo from Ex Libris, WorldCat Discovery from OCLC,
Encore or Vega from Innovative Interfaces, Enterprise from SirsiDynix, and open source tools such as VuFind and Blacklight.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">This study is primarily concerned with libraries' practices and organizational structures for managing and maintaining discovery services beyond the initial implementation period,
and how those practices and structures may have changed over time. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Responses are anonymous, and we will not collect identifying information (unless you choose to provide identifying information in free-text comments). </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun">The survey should take you around 10-15 minutes to complete. Your participation in this survey is voluntary. You may withdraw at any point, for any reason. </span><span class="eop"> </span></span><span class="eop"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">If you would like to contact the researchers, please e-mail Susan Wynne (<a href="mailto:susan.wynne@uwyo.edu">susan.wynne@uwyo.edu</a>) or Deborah McCarthy (</span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:mccarthy@uwyo.edu" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:#0563C1">mccarthy@uwyo.edu</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun">).</span><span class="eop"> </span></span><span class="eop"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The survey is available at
</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://uwyo.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9siZjEzBkXjuUQK" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://uwyo.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9siZjEzBkXjuUQK</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun">
through April 15, 2022.</span><span class="eop"> </span></span><span class="eop"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Thank you,</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Susan and Debbie</span></span><span class="scxw117334260"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><br>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">*For the purposes of this study, a "discovery service" is defined as: "tools that search seamlessly across a wide range of local and remote content and provide relevance-ranked
results." (Marshall Breeding, </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2014/01/14/web-scale-discovery-services/" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2014/01/14/web-scale-discovery-services/</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun">)</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Susan Wynne</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Discovery & Metadata Librarian</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Coe Library 635F</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">University of Wyoming Libraries</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Laramie, WY 82071</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">307-766-6795</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:susan.wynne@uwyo.edu" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:#0563C1">susan.wynne@uwyo.edu</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"> </span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Deborah McCarthy</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Assistant Dean, Resource Discovery & Management</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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