<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">My name is Ifigenia Vardakosta and I</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">am Head Librarian at the
Library & Information Centre of Harokopio University. I am also working out
my PhD thesis at the </span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"> Laboratory on
Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing - Archives, Library Science and
Museology Department - Faculty of </span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Information Science & Informatics of the</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"> of Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece (<a href="http://tab.ionio.gr/" target="_blank">http://tab.ionio.gr/</a>).</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">The thesis is
related to geospatial collection development policies and GIS services in the
area of libraries.</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">With the present questionnaire you are kindly requested to answer the
questions as librarians / users of geographic information systems and
geospatial data.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">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.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Even though the questionnaire has </span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">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.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">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.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V6ndufvMIqj3ev9gGqOJ8kCPLhxI-HWf5LW1CEGGqUo/viewform" target="_blank"><br></a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V6ndufvMIqj3ev9gGqOJ8kCPLhxI-HWf5LW1CEGGqUo/viewform" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V6ndufvMIqj3ev9gGqOJ8kCPLhxI-HWf5LW1CEGGqUo/viewform</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">The questionnaire is anonymous and the results will be used exclusively
in the above work. </span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Please fill in this questionnaire carefully, clearly and objectively in
order to contribute to the validity of the data that will be collected.</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN">It is
estimated</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN"> <span>that the average</span> <span>completion</span> <span>time is approximately 15 minutes.</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Thank you for
taking the time to assist me in my educational endeavours</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">. If you have any
questions</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">please,
feel free to contact me.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="ES"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Ifigenia Vardakosta</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:8pt" lang="ES"></span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="ES">Head Librarian</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Library &
Information Centre</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB">Harokopio</span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"> University</span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ifigenia@hua.gr" target="_blank">ifigenia@hua.gr</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:8pt" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">PhD Candidate</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">Ionian</span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> University</span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Corfu-Greece</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ifigenia@ionio.gr" target="_blank">ifigenia@ionio.gr</a></font></span></p></div>