Dear ALISE Community, Below you will find an important user survey concerning academic research and scholarship that is being carried out by University College London, Department <http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/> of Information with the Charleston <http://www.katina.info/conference/> Conference. I hope that you will take a few moments to participate - below you will find survey information and a link to the survey. Thank you in advance for your participation from UCL DIS and Charleston Conference Tula Giannini, PhD, MLS, MM Dean and Professor Pratt, School of Information & Library Science From: 2010 Charleston Conference [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 12:57 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Are social media impacting on your research? Having trouble viewing this email? 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