Earlier this year, I started a brand new role - Coordinator of Evidence Based Practice at a university library here in Queensland. My last post reflected on my first six weeks in the role. Understanding theory of evidence-based library and information practice is one thing. Being the facilitator and enabler of its application is another. In … [Read more…]
Six weeks ago, I started my new job as Coordinator for Evidence-Based Practice in a university library. This is a newly created position that is responsible for engaging the different areas of the library service to help ensure the best available evidence is identified, gathered and applied to ongoing improvements, projects and decision making; that … [Read more…]
I’ve just made it in for #glamblogclub blogging prompt for January. Phew! So I’m going to jump right in…..actually, ‘jumping in’ will be something of a theme this year. 2017 will be a year of go, go, go! Now to some, this may not be a surprise. And others might think, is this any different … [Read more…]
It’s a ‘thinky’ kind of Saturday morning. I’m doing some research assistant work and I can’t seem to get past a thought or rather, a brief interaction I had this week. The two are linked - in my research assistant work this morning I’m looking at literature around the practitioner experience of research. More specifically, practitioners … [Read more…]
Academic writing can be difficult. When the thoughts don’t quite flow the way you need them to make any sense, academic writing can be downright frustrating. Recently, I thought I had been (very) patient with a literature review I’m writing. I knew the literature. I knew what I wanted to say, but I couldn’t quite fit … [Read more…]