I thought this survey may be of interest to some of you as well and Kate has told me I'm free to share it with you all. Nicole ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kate Davis <davis.kate@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:34 AM Subject: Some research you may be interested in To: nengard@gmail.com Hi Nicole At the moment, a colleague and I are undertaking some research for a conference paper that I thought you might be interested in. Actually, I thought you might be interested in responding to our survey! ;) Basically, we've been thinking about libraries' use of SaaS, the cloud and Open Source Software, and pondering what the implications are for libraries' relationships with their local IT groups, for service sustainability, and for staff skills. Given your background and interests, I thought you might be interested in completing our survey. You can find it at http://tinyurl.com/libsysskills. And you can read the full abstract for the paper we're writing on my blog at http://virtuallyalibrarian.com/2009/10/20/libraries-saas-the-cloud-and-more-.... We're really keen to get data from outside Australia so that the research is more meaningful. Cheers Kate Kate Davis email davis.kate@gmail.com blog virtuallyalibrarian.com twitter @katiedavis facebook katieelladavis