Replication Data for: Western Regional Copyright Education Project

The survey was administered using the Qualtrics cloud survey software. Several weeks in late September 2020 were spent collecting information about all known state and regional library email lists in the 13 targeted Western states. In addition, contact information for many individuals was gathered, such as state librarians and library directors. The goal was to reach as many library professionals, from as many kinds of libraries, as possible during our outreach campaign. This contact information was organized into a spreadsheet, broken down by state and with a separate sheet for multi-state organizations and contacts and two graduate students the states between them and sent emails from the project-specific Gmail account.

Methods for processing the data: Data were downloaded directly from the Qualtrics cloud survey software as a Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) datafile, in order to preserve value labels. SPSS was then utilized to export these data into a comma delimited file format, whereby the value labels were saved in place of data (numeric) values, where applicable.

Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: Data analysis from this project was undertaken with the open-source R language and environment, version 4.0.2 (June 2020) and using the open source R Studio IDE, version 1.3.1073-1 (August 11, 2020)

<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.160716">Report submitted to IMLS</a> with data analysis is available at ASU Library's KEEP Repository.

People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Rachel Bridgewater, Karen Grondin, Jordan Jedry, Patrick Newell, Jaclyn Noble, Anali Maughan Perry, Max Robinson, and Lori M. Weber