EBLIP4

The 4th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference will be held May 6-9, 2007, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From the conference website:

This exciting international conference has grown out of an increasing interest in using the best available evidence to improve library and information practice in all types of libraries. The conference on May 6-9 will be followed by two days of continuing education. The program will provide a forum for the presentation of high quality research papers and posters as well as dynamic discussions of the transformative role of evidence-based practice in the profession.

The deadline for the submission of paper and poster abstracts is December 1. See the call for submissions web page for details.

Registration for the conference has not opened as yet.

Communicating the value of hospital libraries

The Colorado Council of Medical Librarians Advocacy Committee has created a set of resources for medical librarians to use to communicate the value of medical libraries to their organisations' managers.

The resources are available as free downloads from the MLA Vital
Pathways for Hospital Librarians website.

neXus Census - deadline looms

If you haven't done so already PLEASE complete the neXus Census. The deadline is this Friday, 20th October.

From the ALIA website: "The goals of the neXus census are to develop a demographic, educational and employment picture of the library and information profession today and to identify the diverse workforce planning activities currently being undertaken in the library and information services (LIS) sector in Australia. The research project is aligned with similar projects undertaken in Canada, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, to enable a comparison to be made between the situations in Australia and in other countries."

Follow the above link for more information and to connect to the online survey.