Interdisciplinarity collection development survey invitation

[Cynthia Holt <cholt6@gmu.edu>]

**Apologies for cross-posting***

Dear colleagues,

John Walsh, Associate University Librarian; Cynthia Holt, Head, 
Collection Development and Preservation; and Gretchen Reynolds, 
Social Sciences Liaison Librarian, all of George Mason 
University, are writing a book chapter about increasing 
interdisciplinarity in academia and how academic and research 
libraries are experiencing and responding to this trend, 
specifically in the area of collection development.

With this in mind, we would like to invite you to participate in 
a short survey that includes the following questions.

1.Have you observed increasing interdisciplinarity in your 
University community or in your University Library?  If so, how?

2.How is your library or institution responding to increased 
interdisciplinarity in academia?

3.What effect has interdisciplinarity had on your collection 
development practices and activities?

4.Is your library using a particular approach to respond to 
interdisciplinarity in general or in collection development?If 
so, please describe.

5.What is working well and what challenges do you still face in 
your collection development approach to increasing 
interdisciplinarity in academia?

   If you would like to participate in the survey, please go to 
the URL below.

*Interdisciplinarity and Collection Development Survey*

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X3MS6LX


Thank you for your participation.

-- John Walsh, Associate University Librarian, George Mason 
University
-- Cynthia Holt, Head of Collection Development & Preservation, 
George Mason University
-- Gretchen Reynolds, Social Sciences Liaison Librarian, George 
Mason University