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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">SUBJECT: Invitation to participate in a research survey of public library director
leadership style preference <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Dear Library Colleagues, </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" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">I am writing to you with an invitation to participate in research on the preferred
leadership styles of public library directors. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The purpose of the study is to examine which leadership styles public library directors in the United States prefer to utilize. The goal
of the study is to ascertain the differences in public library directors and organizational demographics to identify any relationships between demographic areas and the preferred leadership styles of directors.<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">
This study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at University of the Cumberlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">If you have served in a public library director position in the past five years,
I invite you to participate in an anonymous survey that will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Please submit survey responses by <b>September 5, 2020</b>. </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" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Survey Link: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">
</span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSf4oqijqoICwv75y_mYQP--38qb5oX2DoD5u82eP5JJfs58og%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link&data=02%7C01%7CKLA-LIST%40lsv.uky.edu%7C53a68d6c08964d1d052c08d839704123%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637322501593630837&sdata=%2FUadz%2FusKwjtxY6%2BMDFyfNdm%2BXXb4yl%2B%2FvgJo8yn6RE%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4oqijqoICwv75y_mYQP--38qb5oX2DoD5u82eP5JJfs58og/viewform?usp=sf_link</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Your participation in this survey is voluntary and your responses will be completely
anonymous. If you have any questions about this survey or our research, please contact Whitney Taylor (</span><a href="mailto:whitney.taylor@ucumberlands.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">whitney.taylor@ucumberlands.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Whitney Taylor, Doctoral Student, University of the Cumberlands
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Technical Services Librarian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">University of the Cumberlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">–R. David Lankes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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