scholarly journals EBLIG Report: Interest Group Meets in Atlantic Canada and New Co-convenors are Chosen

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Virginia Wilson ◽  
Lyn Currie
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Full Member ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
Evidence Summary ◽  
Information Practice ◽  
Memorial University Of Newfoundland

May was a month of travel for many Evidence-Based Librarianship Interest Group (EBLIG) members. From May 6 – 11, the 4th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice conference was held in Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From May 22 – 26, EBLIG members attended the Canadian Library Association (CLA) conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. As the second anniversary of the formation of EBLIG has come around, the inaugural co-conveners, Lyn Currie and Virginia Wilson, are wrapping up their two-year term. Congratulations to Sue Fahey of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Renée deGannes, Canadian Dental Association, Ottawa, who have taken over the reins and accepted a two-year term as EBLIG’s new co-conveners. EBLIG has been active this past year, mainly in the area of conference workshops and sessions. At the organizers’ invitation, we successfully submitted and presented a half-day post-conference workshop for the 4th International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference. How to Assess the Evidence: A Critical Appraisal Tool for Library and Information Research, facilitated by Lindsay Glynn, of Memorial University of Newfoundland, was an extremely well-received session with nearly 30 participants in attendance. Virginia Wilson and Stephanie Hall created a practical toolkit on evidence-based library and information practice specifically for public librarians: http://ebltoolkit.pbwiki.com/. This toolkit was unveiled at the 2007 CLA conference in St. John’s by Stephanie Hall. A wiki was launched in 2007 entitled eblibrarianship: the Wiki of the Evidence Based Librarianship Interest Group (EBLIG) to facilitate interest group collaboration, sharing, and information access, as well as a means of communication: http://eblibrarianship.pbwiki.com/ EBLIG members are active in the EBLIP community and beyond: EBLIG members edited and contributed to an EBL-themed issue of Feliciter. EBLIG members are participating as editors, on the editorial advisory board, and on the evidence summary team of the open access journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. As a result of a posting on the eblibrarianship wiki for the CLA conference session, Evidence-Based Librarianship: A Toolkit for Public Libraries, Virginia Wilson and Stephanie Hall have been invited to present a 1-hour audio conference for the Education Institute in the fall of 2007. International membership to the interest group is available without having to become a full member of CLA. For only $30 CAD, people residing outside of Canada can join EBLIG and take advantage of networking and continuing education opportunities. More information on international membership is available at http://www.cla.ca/about/igroups/evidence_based.htm. The past two years have been challenging and exciting. An active and engaged membership goes a long way in making this interest group vital and productive.

scholarly journals New Conveners for EBLIG

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Sue Fahey
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Memorial University Of Newfoundland

As new Co-conveners for CLA’s interest group, EBLIG, we would like to take the opportunity to introduce ourselves. Sue Fahey is a public services librarian at the Health Sciences Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's. Renée de Gannes-Marshall is the information specialist at the Canadian Dental Association in Ottawa. EBLIG's goals are: to represent the interests of librarians involved in evidence based librarianship and library related research; to organize continuing education opportunities for librarians in this area; to provide a means of communication between librarians involved in evidence based librarianship; to assist librarians with the dissemination of library research utilizing an evidence-based model; to support librarians' evidence based research with grants. We are pleased to announce the introduction of a new workshop grant which has been established to support and encourage the development of continuing education activities in evidence based librarianship in conjunction with local/regional/provincial associations or institutions. EBLIG Co-conveners and volunteers will evaluate applications and determine awards based on the established criteria, including relevance to the profession and to the advancement of evidence based librarianship, value to expected participants and regional/geographic location. We would like to award the first grant this year and have allotted a budget of $250 and set a deadline of October 15th, 2007. Please apply ASAP for funding for your fall course idea! For more information, go to http://eblibrarianship.pbwiki.com/EBLIG+Workshop+Incentive+Grants. An hour long Education Institute audio conference, Evidence-Based Librarianship: A Toolkit for Public Libraries, featuring presenters Virginia Wilson and Stephanie Hall, will be held on Tuesday, November 6th, at 12 pm. Virginia and Stephanie will present a toolkit tailored to public librarians and public library workers with tips on how to integrate EBL into the workflow. The toolkit will include key EBL articles, sources of evidence, and steps to take to put EBL into practice. Registration is $54 for members and $74 for non-members. For more information, go to http://www.thepartnership.ca/partnership/bins/calendar_page.asp. If you managed to make it to EBLIP4 or you missed out, but were wondering how you could get to the next conference, (especially after seeing conference abstracts posted on the website http://www.eblip4.unc.edu), we have been in touch with the main contact for EBLIP5 to be held in Stockholm, Sweden. Details on the conference, including event dates and venue, are forthcoming. As of July 31st, 2007, our interest group is 48 members strong from across Canada and the United States! For those who participate on the listserv and who live outside of Canada, did you know that you can join EBLIG without having to become a full member of CLA for a fee of only $30 CAD annually? For more details, go to http://www.cla.ca/about/igroups/evidence_based.htm. Also of note is the fact that non-members can participate on the listserv. We look forward to your comments and questions and invite you to participate in the activities set forth during 2007-2008. Participate on the listserv, contribute to the wiki, keep reading this journal, and get involved with EBL. Also, if you are a fellow "Facebooker", feel free to join the Evidence Based Librarians group (118 members strong at the time of writing!). We look forward to working with you.

scholarly journals Taking Stock(holm): Time to Up Our Game?

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Andrew Booth
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
Programme Committee ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
International Programme ◽  
Information Practice

Andrew Booth, Co-Chair of the International Programme Committee for the 5th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference introduces the keynotes from the event in Stockholm.

scholarly journals Have the Most Relevant and Answerable Research Questions Facing Librarians Changed Between 2001 and 2006?

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Lewis ◽  
Lisa Cotter
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Professional Issues ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Information Practice ◽  
Published Research

Objectives - To examine the similarities and differences between research questions asked by librarians in 2001 to those posed in 2006, and to explore to what extent the published research supports the questions being asked. Methods - Questions collected in 2001 by members of the Evidence-Based Librarianship Implementation Committee (EBLIC) of the MLA Research Section were compared with questions collected in 2006 at a cross-sectoral seminar introducing evidence based library and information practice to Australian librarians. Questions from each list were categorized using the domains of librarianship proposed by Crumley and Koufogiannakis in 2001, and examined with reference to a content analysis of the library and information studies (LIS) research published in 2001 by Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley in 2004. Results - In 2001 and 2006 the most commonly asked questions were in the domain of management (29%, 33%), followed by education (24%, 18.5%). In 2001 questions in the marketing/promotion category ranked lowest (1%), however representation was much greater in 2006 (18.5%) ranking an equal second with education. Questions in the lowest ranked domain in 2006 (collections, 6%) had been more common in 2001 where collections ranked third, representing 19% of the questions. Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley’s content analysis of LIS research published in 2001 revealed that the most popular domain for research was information access and retrieval (38%) followed by collections (24%). Only 1% of published LIS research (seven articles) was in the domain of marketing/promotion. In contrast, 36 articles originally assigned to one of the six established domains could more appropriately have been included in a proposed new domain of professional issues. Conclusion - The disparity between questions being asked by practitioners and the evidence being generated by researchers suggests that the research-practice gap is still an issue. A content analysis of more recently published LIS research would be a useful comparison to Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley’s analysis of research published in 2001.

scholarly journals Libraries Using Evidence - eblip.net.au

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Cotter ◽  
Suzanne Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Current Evidence ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Central Coast ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
Information Practice ◽  
Theory Of Evidence ◽  
The University ◽  
A Current ◽  
Practice Community

Northern Sydney Central Coast Health and The University of Newcastle, Australia, are proud to introduce Libraries Using Evidence – eblip.net.au , a new Australian site being developed to support library practitioners from all sectors adopt the theory of evidence-based library and information practice (EBLIP). The site will include a directory of current evidence-based research, projects and activities; a current awareness feed; a gateway to support from the international evidence-based library and information practice community; and pathways to help put the theory into practice including, the EBLIP Toolkit (October 2006) and PEBL – a Project methodology for Evidence-Based Libraries (early 2007).

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