Announcements

We are a group of archivists and librarians at Oberlin College working to quantify the impact of food in collections. We are asking you to consider participating in a brief Qualtrics survey about food in museum, library, or archival collections. The purpose of the survey is to assess inherent vice within different types of collections and its impact on preservation and conservation priorities. We are surveying librarians, curators, collections managers, conservators, and archivists from collecting institutions who are at least 18 years old and who currently work in the United States. 

Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary. Should you agree to participate in the survey, your responses will be kept confidential. Your anonymized data will be used for analysis. This study, Protocol AY25-26-ER-02, has been deemed exempt by Oberlin College's institutional ethics board. For questions related to this survey and your rights as a participant or information about its IRB approval, please contact Associate Archivist Emily Rebmann (erebmann@oberlin.edu) or the Oberlin College Institutional Review Board, Cox 101, (440-775-8410) or email: ocirb@oberlin.edu.

To learn more about the project or to take the survey, please use this link. The Qualtrics survey will remain open until February 28, and we anticipate that it will take no more than 10 minutes to complete. 

Thank you for your consideration,

Emily Rebmann, Eugénie Fortier, and Gena Reynolds