Do you count downloading apps to your smartphone as professional
development?

LOL.

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Subject: Professional Development Survey
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:12:03 -0400
From: Kathy Karn-Carmichael <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Discussion of Government Document Issues <[log in to unmask]>
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Survey: Professional Development in Rural/Small Academic Libraries

Apologies for cross-posting.

Unable to attend another conference because you're understaffed? Are you
miles (and miles) away from another academic library? Do you count
downloading apps to your smartphone as professional development?

Academic Librarians in small and rural environments face unique
challenges in gaining access to formal and informal continuing
education, networking, and professional development opportunities.  If
you are a credentialed academic librarian currently working in a small
or rural library, we'd like to hear from you.

The purpose of this study is to understand:
The level of access academic librarians in small and rural libraries
have to formal and informal professional development and networking
opportunities; How this group locates and participates in professional
development, networking, and continuing education opportunities; and
Barriers that effect efforts of this group to gain professional
development/continuing education

Please visit
https://lime.usca.edu/limesurvey/index.php?sid=83927&lang=en to take the
online survey. The survey will close June 5, 2012.

We also ask that you forward this invitation to those whom you think may
be interested and eligible to participate.

Thank you for your interest in and your support of this research.

Sincerely
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.S. (PI)
Deborah Tritt, M.L.I.S., M.S.I.T. (Co-PI)


Kathy Karn Carmichael, MLS
Documents Librarian/ Instructor of Library Science
Gregg-Graniteville Library
University of South Carolina Aiken
471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC 29803
803-641-3320
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>