Helen Buckley Woods and Andrew
Booth have been awarded the LIRG Research Scan Award 2012/13.
The idea of the award is to address
a current urgent issue in Library and Information Science, by generating a
summary of relevant literature. The question under investigation for this award is “What do
LIS practitioners want from research?”
The team will conduct a
scoping review of practitioner engagement with research with a focus on current
literature. Diverse evidence sources will be included such as social media
in order to give a more complete picture of practitioners’ relationship with
research.
A draft report will be completed by
15th June and the findings will be presented at a LIRG Pre-Umbrella
conference event on 1st July. The report will be used to inform
LIRG/CILIP research policy.
LIRG (Library and Information
Research Group) is a special interest group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of
Library and Information Professionals). For
more information about LIRG and the Research Scan Award, please see: https://sites.google.com/site/lirgweb/home/awards/lirg-scan-award
Congraulations Helen and Andrew. Look forward to reading the findings, I'm sure they will be of real use to the field.
ReplyDeleteReally well done Helen and Andrew - really proud of you guys :-) Andy
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