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Last year Andrew Booth and I were the
happy recipients of the LIRG Research Scan Award; I blogged about this here. I am pleased to report that the
research has been published as an article in the Library and Information
Research Journal.
Our review focused on the recent
literature concerning LIS practitioners and their relationship with research. We
characterised practitioners’ relationship with research in three ways: as
consumers of research, conducting their own research and working in
collaboration with academics. In order to create a richer picture of this
relationship we included more informal types of evidence, identified through
sources such as newsletters, discussion lists and conference websites.
The review addressed the key
questions from the award brief:
• What
kind of research is relevant to LIS practitioners?
• What
do practitioners understand by “research” and how do they use it?
• What
are the barriers and facilitators to using research in practice?
We were also able to address the
additional questions:
• What
kind of research do practitioners undertake?
• What
is the status of practitioner / academic collaboration in research?
The research scan provided only a
snapshot of current activity on the research / practice nexus, but implications
at a practitioner, organisational and strategic level are presented.
The full paper is available here
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