Hello,

Please pass the following message along to special collections directors, heads, and university archivists.

You are invited to participate in an online survey examining the impact of COVID-19 on archives and special collections. This link will take you directly to the Terms of Consent page. 

The COVID-19 pandemic required archivists and special collections staff to change the ways they worked to accommodate conditions to protect patrons and themselves. The goal of this study is to gauge insight into how archivists adjusted to the pandemic and the effect these adjustments had on their work when returning to campus.

Participants will be asked to take a survey on conditions and accommodations adopted when returning to work in the library. The survey should take roughly 10-20 minutes to complete. Participation is optional and there is no penalty for not completing the survey. No identifying information will be used. All survey responses will be de-identified so no participant or institution can be personally identified.

For any questions, please contact the principal investigator Zachary G. Stein at zachary.stein@louisiana.edu.

Thank you,

Zachary G. Stein, MSLIS

Head of Special Collections/Assistant Professor

Edith Garland Dupré Library

University of Louisiana at Lafayette