Primary Research Group is seeking a project directors for two monographs on librarianship

Primary Research Group is seeking a project directors for two monographs on librarianship

URL: www.primaryresearch.com

The first concerns academic library reference services and some of the issues that will be covered include: virtual reference, commercial virtual reference systems, use of e-books, reference acquisisitons, reference software and web applications, use of reference wikis, marketing online reference services and other issues of interest to academic reference librarians.
The second is for a project on psychology librarianship.

Responsibilities: Devise a questionnaire, recruit 9-10 library participants, administer the questionnaire online or by phone. Follow up each online or email interview with a brief phone interview to flesh out and develop the points raised in the email or online interview. Write an introduction or summary of results. Edit report for content. About half of the participants should be major research universities.

We estimate about 3,000 words of original writing, time spent to recruit participants, plus about 20-25 hours or so on average contacting participants and drawing out explanations, clarifications and expansions of their submissions. Each submission should average about 1,500 words.

For this project you need:

• Contacts in the broader academic library community to recruit participants, half of which should be from major research universities

• Good writing skills since you will be responsible for writing an introduction and summary and also adding to the submissions submitted by participants;

• Journalistic interviewing skills – since some participants will need to be interviewed by phone and you will have to draw them out and add to their answers, sometimes considerably.

• Knowledge of the main issues for the topic covered since you will be partially responsible for questionnaire development.

Each requires email interviews followed up by phone calls to 9 academic libraries.

Contact Primary Research Group at primarydat@mindpsring.com for more
information.

Seeking editor/contributors for libary monographs (Primary Research Group)

Seeking editor/contributors for libary monographs (Primary Research Group)

Primary Research Group (http://www.primaryresearch.com) is seeking project directors for two monographs. The first is on: Developments in Academic Library Interlibrary Loan; the second is on library personnel management.

Each requires email interviews followed up by phone calls to 9 academic libraries.

We estimate about 50- 60 hours of work and offer a stipend of $1350 as well as free copies to all participants, including those interviewed, as well as editor/contributor attribution.

Contact Primary Research Group at primarydat@mindpsring.com for more information.

James Moses, Research Analyst
Primary Research Group Inc.
2753 Broadway, #156
NY, NY 10025
212-736-2316
www.primaryresearch.com
primarydat@aol.com

Monograph on Inter-library Loan (Primary Research Group)

Monograph on Inter-library Loan (Primary Research Group)

Primary Research Group, publisher of surveys and research reports about libraries and higher education, is seeking an experienced librarian to write a monograph about new developments in inter-library loan. The author will interview at least ten leading academic libraries and profile the impact of new technologies and developments on inter-library loan. Among the issues to be explored are the impact of digital repositories, copyright questions, tracking of rights and obligations, loan of rare books and other special or fragile items, services to distance learning students, relations with commercial document delivery providers, role of inter-library loan staff in acquisitions and licensing strategies, measurement of service productivity, software and automation, staff size and budgets, prioritization of service and other major issues in interlibrary loan. Potential authors should have the capaity to arrange interviews with professional asociates in major libraries, particuarly academic libraries.

Primary Research Group reports focus on the management issues confronting libraries. Reports are intended to provide useful management advice on which libraries can act. This is a compensated assigment. For more information, send an email outlining your qualifications to: Primarydat@Mindspring.com.

James Moses, Research Analyst
Primary Research Group Inc.
www.primaryresearch.com

Monograph on Library Performance Assessment (Primary Research Group)

Monograph on Library Performance Assessment (Primary Research Group)

Primary Research Group (www.PrimaryResearch.com) is seeking a writer for a monograph on library personnel performance assessment. The author will interview at least ten leading libraries and profile new developments in library personnel assessment.

Potential authors should have the capacity to arrange interviews with professional asociates in major libraries, particuarly academic libraries.

Primary Research Group reports focus on the management issues confronting libraries. Reports are intended to provide useful management advice on which libraries can act. This is a compensated assigment. For more information, send an email outlining your
qualifications to: Primarydat@Mindspring.com.

James Moses, Research Analyst
Primary Research Group Inc.
www.primaryresearch.com