Subject: Interdisciplinarity collection development survey invitation
From: Cynthia Holt <cholt6_at_gmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:22:53 -0500
**Apologies for cross-posting***
Dear colleagues,
John Walsh, Associate University Librarian; Cynthia Holt, Head,
Collection Development & Preservation; and Gretchen Reynolds, Social
Sciences Liaison Librarian, all of George Mason University, are writing
a book chapter about increasing interdisciplinarity in academia and how
academic and research libraries are experiencing and responding to this
trend, specifically in the area of collection development.
With this in mind, we would like to invite you to participate in a
short survey that includes the following questions.
1. Have you observed increasing interdisciplinarity in your University
community or in your University Library? If so, how?
2. How is your library or institution responding to increased
interdisciplinarity in academia?
3. What effect has interdisciplinarity had on your collection
development practices and activities?
4. Is your library using a particular approach to respond to
interdisciplinarity in general or in collection development? If so,
please describe.
5. What is working well and what challenges do you still face in
your collection development approach to increasing interdisciplinarity
in academia?
If you would like to participate in the survey, please click the link
below.
Interdisciplinarity and Collection Development Survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X3MS6LX
Thank you for your participation.
John Walsh, Associate University Librarian, George Mason University
Cynthia Holt, Head of Collection Development & Preservation, George
Mason University
Gretchen Reynolds, Social Sciences Liaison Librarian, George Mason
University
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