What role will you be playing in the committee?

I’m the new Digital Officer and am part of the LIRG marketing team, working alongside the External Communications Officer and the Content Officer. My main roles will include updating the LIRG webpages and curating the LIRG newsletter to keep you informed about the group’s latest news, upcoming events, and awards.

What is your day job?

I am an Assistant E-Resources Librarian at Cardiff University, helping to manage the University’s large e-resource collection with my colleagues in the Collection Management Team. My role involves ensuring access to e-resources, gathering usage statistics to inform renewal decisions, and liaising with publishers. I started this role in October 2020 so am yet to meet my colleagues in person!

 What do you hope to bring to the committee?

 I am really excited to be part of the LIRG committee, and I hope that my digital and communication skills will prove useful in this role. I have a passion for open research and am looking forward to supporting ‘research into practice’ and being a reviewer for the group’s open access journal Library and Information Research (LIR).

When you aren’t working what do you enjoy doing?

I enjoy walking my dog in the beautiful Welsh countryside and I have a keen interest in archaeology. Following on from my master’s dissertation I recently published a paper in RSOS about the origins of the crew of a Tudor warship, the Mary Rose. It’s open access if you fancy a read! https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202106

• Overseeing the editorial process for items submitted to peer reviewed section (this includes assignment of peer reviewers.
• Monitoring the peer review process, communicating with authors and peer reviewers.
• Making acceptance decisions, ensuring required changes to manuscripts are made.
• Communicating with copy editors and the production editor to ensure the final copy is as expected.
• Communicating and consulting with the Editor-in-Chief on a regular basis.
• Attending online Editorial Team meetings, on a regular basis.
• Ensuring that all necessary deadlines are met.
• Communicating with potential authors and responding to queries.

• Provide a final editorial check of proofed copy before publication.
• Layout of all journal content in PDF and HTML formats.
• Working with Editors to ensure adherence to the journal in house style and to ensure the publication maintains a professional and consistent appearance.
• Communicating and consulting with the Editor-in-Chief on a regular basis.
• Attending Editorial Team meetings, via Skype, on a monthly basis and participating in the overall governance of the journal.
• Ensuring that all necessary deadlines are met.
• Communicating with authors and responding to queries.

• Utilize LIR style guidelines and to ensure journal material is copy edited by ensuring that proper grammar and spelling conventions and appropriate style and formatting are addressed.
• Verify each cited reference to the extent possible with available bibliographic resources and advises editor of any not checked.

• Provide constructive and timely feedback on the quality of articles submitted to peer reviewed sections.
• Communicating with editor.

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! 

#cilipconf18

Your chance to win Amazon vouchers worth £20!

The Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) have recently launched "Introduction to Research Skills" a three-part tutorial on CILIP’s VLE. These online tutorials are designed to help you get involved in research. Packed with top tips and information on how to start your research, the tutorials also feature useful guides and activities.

We would like your feedback on our tutorials. Anyone who evaluates the tutorials has the option to enter a prize draw to win one of three £20 Amazon vouchers. The evaluation period will close at the end of February 2018. Winners will be drawn at the next LIRG committee meeting in March.

You can enrol on the LIRG tutorial via the CILIP VLE and after completing the tutorials you can evaluate them via the following website:

https://strathsci.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dj7mUHhEfacnRxX

All feedback will be anonymous and will used to improve the tutorials.

What are you waiting for? You’ve got to be in it to win it!