(Forwarded by J. Moir)
Apologies for cross-posting
My name is Bridgit Siddall and I
am a Masters of Information Studies student at Victoria University of
Wellington. As part of this degree I am undertaking the INFO 580 research
project.
The project I am undertaking focuses on the use of specific
social media, specifically blogs, wikis, forums, and electronic mailing lists
by cataloguers as a means of seeking answers to/discussion about
cataloguing-specific questions and issues. The data collected from this
survey will be used to examine the frequency with which social media are used
by cataloguers to seek out answers to cataloguing-specific questions and
problems. It is my hope that the project will provide some insight into
whether social media play a role in cataloguers' day-to-day functioning at
work. Your participation in this survey would be much appreciated.
Data collection involves an online survey that should take
no more than 10-15 minutes to fill out. Your responses will be anonymous
and no personal information is sought in the survey. Your response to the
questionnaire will be taken as consent that the data you have supplied can be
used in the final report. The final report will contain aggregated data and
care will be taken that no information that might identify a particular
respondent appears in that report. No other person besides me and my
supervisor, Dr Chern Li Liew, will see the spreadsheet containing responses to
the questionnaire.
The report will be submitted for marking to the School of
Information Management and deposited in the University Library. The
report may also be put forward for publication or presented at a professional
conference. Questionnaires will be destroyed two years after the end of
the project.
If you have any questions or would like to receive further
information about the project, please contact
me at siddalbrid@myvuw.ac.nz or my supervisor, Dr Chern Li Liew
at ChernLi.Liew@vuw.ac.nz
at the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington.
Bridgit Siddall
If you wish to participate in the survey please follow this
link: http://vuw.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1NtQUrOdQuMUTJO