ILL and eBooks Survey

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This study will address how current eBook trends and practices in libraries will impact the larger ecosystem of collections and resource sharing. These services have become essential to serving the research needs of faculty and students in higher education. The findings could help identify some limitations to these practices and predict negative consequences for academic libraries and researchers. This research project will hopefully help academic libraries gain insight into the future of library book collections and resource sharing and offer suggestions to improve that trajectory.

Because these questions will require information from collections and ILL staff at your institution, please coordinate with each other to ensure that we only have one response per institution. Also, we will be asking questions related to collections budget and eBook expenditures so you might want to have that available when you begin the survey. Please select NA for any questions that do not apply. Attached to the survey email is a PDF with the survey questions to help you coordinate your responses. Please have only ONE person from your institution complete the survey.

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Study Title: ILL and eBooks

The purpose of this research project is to gather information from academic libraries about their interlibrary loan (ILL) and collection development practices to help research investigators forecast the potential challenges and needs of these units in the future. Participants will be asked to share information on behalf of their institution relating to eBook acquisitions and contracts and interlibrary loan borrowing and lending options. The entire study will be conducted online through Google Forms.

Inclusion criteria: You are eligible to participate if you are aged 18 or older and work in an academic library.
Exclusion criteria: You are ineligible to participate if you are under the age of 18 and do not work in an academic library.

There are no risks involved in participating in the study.

The following investigators are available for questions about this study: Amanda Binder, abinder3@uncc.edu; Elizabeth Siler, esiler3@uncc.edu; and Christine Beardsley, cbeards1@uncc.edu.

Subjects may choose not to participate or to withdraw from the study at any time without penalty or loss of any benefit to which they might otherwise be entitled.

The survey does not collect names or other personally identifying information. Nor will you be asked to identify your institution. Results of the study may be published and may be used or distributed for future research.

This study has been approved by the UNC Charlotte IRB. For questions concerning participant rights, please contact the Office of Research Protections and Integrity at 704-687-1871 or uncc-irb@uncc.edu.

By continuing to this survey, you are giving consent to participate in this study.

Your information collected as part of the research, even if identifiers are removed, may be used or distributed for future research.

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