A Survey of Online Graduate Library Curriculum Development for Health Sciences Librarianship (HSL) |
Please read this consent document carefully before you decide to participate in this study.
This survey attempts to draw on your insights as employers—directors/hiring committees or managers of health sciences library or an equivalent library—about what knowledge base, subject knowledge, and specialized expertise an entry-level health sciences librarian is expected to attain through graduate library study. The ultimate goal is to develop updated online curricula for health sciences librarianship.
Participation in this study poses no foreseeable risks or discomforts to you. You will not receive payment or other compensation for your participation. Despite no direct benefits to you for participation, the study results will inform both health sciences library leaders and LIS educators about what changes and adaptations are necessary to HSL roles in the intellectually and technologically sophisticated context of healthcare.
As a study participant, your identity will not be associated with any data collected. All responses will be kept confidential to the full extent allowed by law, and any data collected from this study will be reported in aggregate form. Only the project's principal investigator (PI) will have access to the data, and encoded data will be kept securely for a period of five years after the project ends, which will be May 1, 2023. In any publication that results from this study, the researcher will not include any information making it possible to identify individual participants.
This study is being conducted by the PI--Jinxuan (Jenny) Ma, an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801. Phone: 620-341-5320. Email: jma4@emporia.edu. You are encouraged to contact Dr. Ma for any questions. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this study, you are also encouraged to contact the IRB Research and Grants Center, Plumb Hall 313F, Emporia State University, Campus Box 4003, Emporia KS 66801. Email: pfillmor@emporia.edu. The IRB approval ID number: 17072.
"I have read the above statement and have been fully advised of the procedures to be used in this project. I have been given sufficient opportunity to ask any questions I had concerning the procedures and possible risks involved. I understand the potential risks involved and I assume them voluntarily. I likewise understand that I can withdraw from the study at any time without being subjected to reproach."
Participation in this study poses no foreseeable risks or discomforts to you. You will not receive payment or other compensation for your participation. Despite no direct benefits to you for participation, the study results will inform both health sciences library leaders and LIS educators about what changes and adaptations are necessary to HSL roles in the intellectually and technologically sophisticated context of healthcare.
As a study participant, your identity will not be associated with any data collected. All responses will be kept confidential to the full extent allowed by law, and any data collected from this study will be reported in aggregate form. Only the project's principal investigator (PI) will have access to the data, and encoded data will be kept securely for a period of five years after the project ends, which will be May 1, 2023. In any publication that results from this study, the researcher will not include any information making it possible to identify individual participants.
This study is being conducted by the PI--Jinxuan (Jenny) Ma, an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801. Phone: 620-341-5320. Email: jma4@emporia.edu. You are encouraged to contact Dr. Ma for any questions. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this study, you are also encouraged to contact the IRB Research and Grants Center, Plumb Hall 313F, Emporia State University, Campus Box 4003, Emporia KS 66801. Email: pfillmor@emporia.edu. The IRB approval ID number: 17072.
"I have read the above statement and have been fully advised of the procedures to be used in this project. I have been given sufficient opportunity to ask any questions I had concerning the procedures and possible risks involved. I understand the potential risks involved and I assume them voluntarily. I likewise understand that I can withdraw from the study at any time without being subjected to reproach."