LIRG New Directions: Travelling with CILIP

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LIRG New Directions Travelling with CILIP
LibraryInformation Research Group, New
Directions 21 July 2004, Leeds

• Margaret Haines
• President of CILIP

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Three Mirrors of LIS Practice

• Reflective Practice (how we learn from our own
  practice)
• Requires ability to ask the right questions (with
  some coaching) and awareness of knowledge base
• Evidence-based Practice (how we learn from the
  practice of others)
• Requires all of above plus critical appraisal
  skills and ability to find research evidence
• Research Practice (how we learn from others about
  our practice)
• Requires all of above plus research methods
  skills

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Reflect, Review, Research

• Why are we not doing these things?
• Lack of time and/or money
• lack of skills and/or confidence in research
  methods and critical appraisal
• lack of research in specific operational areas
  and lack of pointers to relevant research in
  other disciplines
• What can Cilip and LIRG do to improve LIS
  practice and to society generally through
  research?

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What should CILIP do?

• To support a knowledge-based global society
• To support the development of the library and
  information profession
• To support its own members and staff

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Cilips Research Responsibilities (1)

• To Society
• Work with other bodies (both LIS and non-LIS) in
  encouraging an active research culture to
  underpin the knowledge society
• Actively support initiatives to facilitate
  knowledge transfer, nationally and
  internationally and promote the role of LIS in
  knowledge transfer
• Influence UK policy-makers, research funders and
  employers to support information and knowledge
  research

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Cilips Research Responsibilities (2)

• To the LIS Community
• Produce joint statements with other professional
  associations and bodies to emphasize importance
  of research to our profession
• Support research relevant to our profession
  through participation in national projects i.e.
  contributing funding or time and expertise
• Support evidence-based information practice
  through dissemination of research findings using
  its website and journals

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Cilips Research Responsibilities (3)

• To its members and staff
• Help LIRG in promoting and supporting LIS
  research including actively facilitating research
  communities of practice
• Support members in acquiring appropriate research
  and EBIP skills through CPD, certification and
  accreditation processes
• Demonstrate exemplary practice itself in using
  research evidence to inform practice and promote
  models of good practice in this area

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What should LIRG do?

• What is the LIRGs role in EBIP?
• What is LIRGs role in developing research aware
  and research skilled practitioners?
• What is LIRGs role in supporting e-science and
  academic research beyond LIS?
• What more can LIRG do to disseminate LIS research
  findings?
• How can LIRG help CILIP (and vice versa) in this
  research agenda?

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What could LIRG do? (1)

• To help LIS Community
• Run research and EBIP workshops
• Put CriSTAL-type checklists and other self-help
  guides on its website and support online virtual
  journal clubs
• Conduct systematic reviews of library literature
  and produce evidence-based guidelines
• Encourage library journals to require structured
  abstracts along the SPICE model
• Help develop LIS applications for research
  funding

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What could LIRG do? (2)

• To help CILIP and its members
• Assist with drafting a Research Statement and
  establishing a Research Task Force
• Provide mentors to CILIP members as part of FOQ
  and mentoring programmes
• Advise other CILIP groups on research
• Help CILIP review academic programmes for
  research and EBP content
• Contribute to CILIP Strategic and Business Plans
  and CILIP submissions to national and
  international initiatives e.g. e-science strategy

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Some Ideas to Kick-start the Day

• Raise Profile and increase membership
• New marketing strategy might include EBIP?
• Increase resources and funding
• New fund-raising strategy beyond capitation?
• Target other bodies for collaboration
• Find one key partner to share tasks?
• Grab the research mandate for Cilip
• Draft a research section for the new corporate
  plan and use honorary officers to back it