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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, I am passing along a message I received from a graduate student looking for librarian participation in a survey for her research on intersectionality in children’s picture books. Her email is
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<a href="mailto:alena6@pdx.edu">alena6@pdx.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white">.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Dear Librarian,</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">My name is Alena Rivas, and I am reaching out to you today to request your assistance with my graduate research project. My research question is as follows: Which intersectional
identities remain underrepresented in diverse US children’s picture books?</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">I have created a survey that I hope you will take. </span><span style="color:#222222"><a href="https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6VvWXrGoRmpwkV8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563C1">You
can access the survey here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">. This survey has been approved by Portland State University’s Institutional Review Board to ensure ethical practices in human subject
research. Any librarian who elects to take and submit this survey would be doing so anonymously as <b>no identifiable personal information</b> is requested or gathered, including email addresses.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">You can elect not to take this survey without repercussion. You also have the option to stop taking the survey at any time. <b>The only anticipated risk associated with taking
this survey is the time it will take you to complete it, which should be no more than 10-15 minutes.</b></span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">The goal of this research is to identify which intersectional identities remain underrepresented in US children’s picture books so that I can share this information with the publishing
industry at large and together, we can work to ensure that all children have the joy and other developmental and emotional benefits of seeing themselves represented in the books they read.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">This survey will close by 11:45 pm PST on April 30, 2023.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Thank you for your time and consideration.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Sincerely,</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Alena Rivas</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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