I don't think we are being asked to approach individuals. My thoughts are that this could be passed to networks for circulation to their members - several trusts have LGBT groups.
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Subject: Re: Study into information needs of LGBTQ health professionals
Forgive me being difficult, but aren't there ethical/confidentiality issues around approaching people on-spec on the basis of their sexual preference ?
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Mike
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From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Morris
Sent: 28 February 2013 02:16 PM
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Subject: Study into information needs of LGBTQ health professionals
Hello
I am a medical librarian at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and I'd like to ask interested members of this list to help me publicise a study I am currently conducting into the information needs and information seeking behaviour of LGBTQ health professionals and their interaction with medical librarians.
I'm keen to have as many results as possible from LGBTQ health professionals in order to ensure that the results are representative so please feel free to send the link to this survey (see below) to anybody you think might want to take part, and please feel free to encourage them to do the same.
This is a follow-up study to previous work undertaken in 2003 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14762463), with additional questions to assess the impact of internet resources and changes in library services.
The text of my invitation letter to participants is below, and the survey itself can be completed by following this link:
https://surveys.mcgill.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=62812&lang=en
The survey is, of course, completely confidential and I promise to respect the anonymity of all participants. Please do get back in touch if you have any further questions.
Many thanks, and apologies if you receive this message more than once from different listservs.
Martin
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Dear Health Professional,
I invite you to take part in an online survey to investigate the use of medical libraries and librarians by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) health professionals. This project is important because it will help to enable medical libraries and medical librarians to continue to meet the needs of LGBTQ health professionals in the future.
The survey consists of 20 short questions, which should take no more than
15 minutes to complete. Participation is open to health professionals in all areas of health care who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and/or transgender and who are 18 years or older.
I hope that you will choose to respond to the questionnaire; you are also very welcome to pass the survey link to any other colleagues who may be interested in taking part.
I would like to assure you that the survey is completely anonymous and that I will destroy all data gathered upon completion of the final report.
It is my intention to disseminate the anonymised, combined results at a medical librarianship conference and through publication of a journal article. I would also be very happy to send a copy of the results to any respondent who indicates they would like to receive this.
To complete the survey, please click on the link below or type the address into a browser:
https://surveys.mcgill.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=62812&lang=en
Many thanks for your collaboration!
Martin Morris, Life Sciences Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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