<div><div dir="auto">FYI</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Samantha Lopez</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:slopez@ala.org">slopez@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:15 AM<br>Subject: [PubLib] Please Complete Public Library COVID-19 Response Survey<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:PUBLIB@oclclists.org">PUBLIB@oclclists.org</a>><br></div><br><br>







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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you all for your work at this difficult time for our nation. One challenge we are hearing from our members, policymakers
 and national media is an information gap related to public library response and activities during the current crisis. We hope libraries will help us to fill this gap by completing this online survey:
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT05MjIwMzI2JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjU3NDYxODYmbGk9NzUxMzA0MTk/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#663399">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/publiclibrariesrespond</span></a></span></strong>.
 We are asking library directors (or their designees) to respond to the survey on behalf of their library systems. If this does not apply to you, please help us by passing this email on to the appropriate staff member. The survey should take 10-15 minutes to
 complete and you can view the full set of questions and FAQs at <a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT05MjIwMzI2JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjU3NDYxODYmbGk9NzUxMzA0MjA/index.html" target="_blank">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#663399;font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/pla/issues/covid-19/surveyoverview</span></strong></a>.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We know there are other crowd-sourced surveys in the field, and the Public Library Association (PLA) will work to map to
 other data collections and share back information to the field as soon as possible. To speed up our ability to gather and share information, the survey will only be open from
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">March 23 to March 30 at 11:59 p.m. Central</span></strong>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please forgive any cross-postings. We are pleased to be working with our Public Library Data Alliance partners to gather
 and use data to inform our work with and for our members, as well as urgent and ongoing advocacy with IMLS, members of Congress and other national organizations and agencies. Please email Emily Plagman at
<a href="mailto:eplagman@ala.org" target="_blank">eplagman@ala.org</a> with any questions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT05MjIwMzI2JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjU3NDYxODYmbGk9NzUxMzA0MjE/index.html" target="_blank">
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#663399;font-weight:normal">ALA Pandemic Preparedness Resources for Libraries</span></strong></a>.</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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