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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">****Please excuse cross-postings****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Greetings:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We are academic librarians who are interested in learning why institutions migrate from one digital asset management system to another. We are soliciting survey
responses from information professionals at institutions which are migrating, have migrated, or will migrate to a new digital asset management system. The title of the survey is “Identifying Motivations for DAMS Migration: A Survey.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For the purposes of this survey, a digital asset management system (DAMS) is software that supports the ingest, “description, tracking, discovery, retrieval, searching, and
distribution of collections of digital objects [1]”. Some examples of commonly used DAMS are: CONTENTdm, DSpace, Islandora, DigiTool, Fedora, etc.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please note that this survey does
<i>not</i> focus on systems used exclusively as institutional repositories, which we consider to be repositories that only provide access to the “intellectual output of an institution [2]”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The results from our survey will possibly lead to a publication in a professional journal and/or presentations at relevant professional conferences.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If your institution meets these parameters, we would appreciate your participation in this survey. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete and
will not ask for or obtain any personally identifying information. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">You can access the survey here:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://uiuc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3aw56frpWbGLlgV"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">https://uiuc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3aw56frpWbGLlgV</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us (information provided below).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We look forward to seeing your responses and sharing the results of our research.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thank you.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Santi Thompson</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:sathompson3@uh.edu"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">sathompson3@uh.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ayla Stein</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:astein@illinois.edu"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">astein@illinois.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">_____________________________</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[1] <span style="color:black">
<a href="http://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/d/digital-assets-management-system">http://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/d/digital-assets-management-system</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[2] <span style="color:black">
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository#cite_note-eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk-1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository#cite_note-eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk-1</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ayla Stein<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Metadata Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Professor, University Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">220 Main Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1408 W. Gregory Drive (MC-522)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Urbana, Illinois 61801<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(217) 300-2958<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:astein@illinois.edu">astein@illinois.edu</a>
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