<div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dr Heila Pienaar<br>Research Associate<br>Department of Information Science<br>University of Pretoria<br><br>CV: <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/565746035/Dr-Heila-Pienaar-Conventional-CV">https://www.scribd.com/document/565746035/Dr-Heila-Pienaar-Conventional-CV</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Alex Kinnaman</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:alexk93@vt.edu">alexk93@vt.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, 12 May 2022, 6:14 pm<br>Subject: Invitation to participate in study on digital library policy and software reuse (VT-IRB 22-430)<br>To: Yinlin Chen <<a href="mailto:ylchen@vt.edu">ylchen@vt.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">Dear colleagues,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">I am Alex Kinnaman, the Digital Preservation
Coordinator at Virginia Tech University Libraries. Currently I am working to
support our digital library policy, documentation, and software management by
investigating current practices in reusability of these resources in individual
organizations.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">We are inviting digital archivists,
digital  library managers, IT
professionals, and digital preservationists working with policy and software in
digital libraries to participate in a 15-minute web-based survey on common
practices using and supporting resource reuse. The survey will include shorter
answer questions on current methods for creating reusable digital library
policies and software, identify their priorities for these materials in terms
of reusability, and be asked to navigate to Virginia Tech University Library
policies and software to rank their usefulness and provide additional
open-ended feedback.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">If you are interested in more information, the
web-based survey is accessible at the following link: <a href="https://virginiatech.questionpro.com/t/AVdu3Zskyv" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://virginiatech.questionpro.com/t/AVdu3Zskyv</a>.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">If you
have any questions you may contact me at <a href="mailto:alexk93@vt.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">alexk93@vt.edu</a>, or VT-IRB at
<a href="mailto:irb@vt.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">irb@vt.edu</a>. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">Sincerely,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">Alex Kinnaman</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1">Alex Kinnaman</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Digital Preservation Coordinator</font><div><font size="1">Virginia Tech University Libraries</font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="mailto:alexk93@vt.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">alexk93@vt.edu</a> </font></div><div><font size="1">540-231-9474</font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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