There may be no harm in forwarding this request from the (USA) ‘MAPS-L’ list to a (UK) one. (Doubtless I shall be informed if it transpires otherwiseJ). FH

Dear Colleagues,

My name is Ifigenia Vardakosta and I am Head Librarian at the Library & Information Centre of Harokopio University. I am also working out my PhD thesis at the  Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing - Archives, Library Science and Museology Department - Faculty of Information Science & Informatics of the of Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (http://tab.ionio.gr/). The thesis is related to geospatial collection development policies and GIS services in the area of libraries.

With the present questionnaire you are kindly requested to answer the questions as librarians / users of geographic information systems and geospatial data.

The purpose of the research is mapping the geospatial collections. We seek to identify if the development of geospatial collections was based on certain Geospatial Collection Development Policies (GCDPs) as well as the volume of open access utilization in libraries regarding geographical information. Additionally, we anticipate that this research will reveal whether libraries collect in their repositories the locally produced geospatial data or not and provide innovative services to their users.

Even though the questionnaire has been structured to be answered by librarians/employees solely working on geographic collections and GIS services, nevertheless librarians/employees others than Map/GIS experts can also participate testifying their opinion for geospatial collection development.

The questionnaire is structured in six sections: 1)Demographics 2)Geospatial Collection Development 3)Repository Geospatial Collection 4)GIS Services 5)Policies 6)Opinions. Participants will be driven from one section to another based on their answers.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V6ndufvMIqj3ev9gGqOJ8kCPLhxI-HWf5LW1CEGGqUo/viewform

The questionnaire is anonymous and the results will be used exclusively in the above work. Please fill in this questionnaire carefully, clearly and objectively in order to contribute to the validity of the data that will be collected. It is estimated that the average completion time is approximately 15 minutes.

Thank you for taking the time to assist me in my educational endeavours. If you have any questions, please, feel free to contact me.

Ifigenia Vardakosta

Head Librarian

Library & Information Centre

Harokopio University

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PhD Candidate

Ionian University

Corfu-Greece

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