Monthly Archives: July 2011
How academic libraries annoy academics
Here’s a story I’m telling because I think libraries need more allies in the academy. As a librarian-slash-researcher-slash-professor I have these weird insider/outsider (or emic/etic) experiences with academic libraries from time to time. In these experiences (here’s one from last … Continue reading
Filed under academic libraries, advocacy, funding, technology, The Profession
Censorship & parenting
I had two recent parenting experiences related to book censorship that I thought might be of interest to readers who liked (or liked to hate) my previous posts on creating house rules for my kid’s internet use and/or book rating … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, Intellectual freedom, public libraries, school libraries, youth
Toughening ourselves up as librarian-researchers: Follow up Post #1
I wasn’t aware that I posted my bit about disappointment with LIS conference research presentations smack dab in between the EBLIP6 conference and the launch of the UK-based Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project. Serendipity at it’s finest! Thanks … Continue reading
Filed under academic libraries, LIS education, research, The Profession
Update on withdrawn CIHR trials policy
In an only somewhat-overdue update (thanks to conference season interrupting my regular blogging activities – I do write on the road, but need to get sleep & give a read over before I can push “publish” on a post) the … Continue reading
Conference Season 2011: Librarianship Researchers, we need to toughen up
As a research-embedded health librarian, I often go to non-LIS-type conferences that are aimed at health researchers. While I really like my librarian colleagues, this spring I’ve been thinking about the juxtoposition of how we present research in LIS fora versus health fora.
To my fellow Health Librarianship Researchers: We need to toughen up.
(Frankly, this should probably be addressed to all librarianship researchers, not just those in health, but health is my current niche and where my illustrative examples come from today)
1) Stand up for your methods!
2) Policy-based evidence: We need to recognize and avoid it
If we’re going to do research and position ourselves as reseach experts (or even just research-competent), we need to sharpen our chops.
Filed under academic libraries, research, The Profession
