It’s conference season! The CILIP conference is now less than a month away and LIRG have an active role.  

Library & Information Research Group reps will be around on stand 22 on Thursday 5th July @13:20–13:50.

LIRG chaired Session: The ‘evidence’ in evidence based practice @15.50 – Thursday 5th July

What is research evidence? - Dr Diane Rasmussen Pennington
“It is time to dispel the myth that only ‘researchers’ or ‘academics’ in the information profession can and should do research.” 

Collecting and using evidence routinely across health libraries - Jenny Turner
“Could the evidence collected and used locally be collated and used nationally?"

Evidencing impact through the analysis of focus group data - Leo Appleton
“This presentation will provide a brief background to a PhD research project entitled: ‘The value and impact of public libraries within the Information Society: their contribution to citizenship development’.”

Chair: Alison Brettle

For full details see the website: http://cilipconference.org.uk/whats-on/programme/

If anyone who would like to write up these session and maybe take some photos for the blog, please do let us know.

We hope everyone will enjoy an engaging conference, and remember to come back from the beach after lunch! 

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