Good thinking. Please do. They do a good job of getting information out. Jimi - another person that comes to mind as a good disseminator is Bill Lefurgy. Do you think he'd be willing to tweet about it? Andrea > -----Original Message----- > From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:NDSA- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amy Kirchhoff > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 9:32 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [NDSA-STANDARDS] text for: Please take the NDSA Digital > Preservation Staffing Survey > > Hi all ~ > > Would it be OK if I forwarded it to William Kilbride to circulate to > the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)? I don't see them on our > recipients list, but they'd be a good fit. > > ~ Amy > > -----Original Message----- > From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:NDSA- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jones, Jimi > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 7:51 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [NDSA-STANDARDS] text for: Please take the NDSA Digital > Preservation Staffing Survey > > Andrea: thank you for putting this email together and sending out the > survey. I've sent out the survey to the AMIA and ARSC lists. I see that > Linda, Mary and Jennifer have all entered some listservs on our wiki > (Andrea's link below). Can you ladies send out the survey and > introductory email to these lists and let us know when you've sent > them? I'm hoping this will help minimize cross-postings. And please, > everyone else, if you can think of places we're missing, feel free to > send the survey out and let us know where you sent it. > > Let's see the responses start rollin' in! > > Best, > > Jimi > > -----Original Message----- > From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:NDSA- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Goethals, Andrea > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:36 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [NDSA-STANDARDS] text for: Please take the NDSA Digital > Preservation Staffing Survey > > I think the survey is ready to be announced. Here's the text to use for > the announcement (filling in your name at the bottom). Unless anyone > sees anything glaringly wrong in this text we can start announcing it > using our compiled list at > http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=List_of > _places/people_we_want_to_receive_the_survey > > Andrea > > --------------------------- > Organizations establishing or scaling up digital preservation programs > are faced with many decisions. How many staff do we need? What types of > positions are needed? What skills, education and experience should we > be looking for? Should we hire new staff or retrain existing staff? > What functions should be scoped as part of the program? What should be > provided by other parts of the organization, outsourced or provided > through collaboration with other organizations? > > The National Digital Stewardship > Alliance<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/> (NDSA) Standards & > Practices Working > Group<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/standards. > html> is conducting a survey of organizations currently responsible for > digital preservation to gain insight into how organizations worldwide > are addressing these staffing, scoping and organizational questions. > > Only one response should be submitted per institution. The survey will > close on August 17, 2012. > > To begin click on this link: Start the > survey<https://harvard.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bDE8UQ1rK17JHqk> > > Please email any questions to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with > the subject line Staffing Survey. > > We will make our best effort to protect your individual survey > responses so that no one will be able to connect your responses with > you or your organization. Any personal information that could identify > you or your organization will be removed or changed before results are > made public. We will combine your responses with the responses of > others and make the aggregated results public, and preserve the > anonymous data long-term for research purposes. > > If you would like to plan your answers before filling out the online > survey, you can access the survey > worksheet<http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digpres/docs/DP_Survey_Working_Cop > y.docx>. 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