OUP Project TORCH - Thanks; Oct 1 deadline reminder

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:32:37 -0400
From: October Ivins <october.ivins@mindspring.com>

Dear Ann:  Thank you again for posting our original invitation.  Would you
please post this reminder as well?

Best,  October
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Dear Librarian,

Many thanks to the 180 of you who have taken time to respond to our survey
about planned subject areas, features and pricing of these new subject
collections of online monographs. Your ratings and suggestions are
invaluable.

If any of you have not yet responded but plan to do so, please note that
Friday, Oct. 1st is the deadline.  If a little more time would help, we
will not close the survey until late Saturday, Oct. 2nd.

The original invitation follows:

Project TORCH (The Online Resource Collection in the Humanities) is a new
endeavor, a collaboration among university presses. TORCH will offer
discipline based collections comprised of 1,000 titles each of backfile
monographs from the last 20 years. Initial planning is funded by the
Mellon Foundation with Oxford University Press leading the initiative.  
OUP has hired an executive director, established an advisory board and is
negotiating with other university presses to include their titles.  As
consultants who are also librarians, we are helping TORCH assess market
interest in planned subject areas, features and pricing.  Your preferences
in these areas will help shape the product.

We understand that this is an especially busy time of the academic year,
but OUP needs to collect this information now to meet grant reporting
deadlines. We invite you to share this invitation with colleagues, since
one individual may not be the best person to respond to every question.

The survey will take 15 to 25 minutes, depending on how many comments you
choose to make.  You may work on the survey in several sessions as it will
save your place if you are using the same machine.

Please enter the survey here:  
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=19262630894

Please respond by Friday, October 1, 2004.

The survey will ask for your institution's Carnegie Classification.  If
you would like to look it up before beginning, please follow this link:
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/CIHE2000/PartIIfiles/partII
.htm

Thank you,

October Ivins, MLS
Digital Content & Access Solutions
october.ivins@mindspring.com

Judy Luther, MLS, MBA
Informed Strategies
judy.luther@informedstrategies.com