EBLIP Vol 2, No 1 (2007)

Remember to take a look at the first issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice for 2007. While not the only paper of interest we have to give special note to our own...those SPICE girls, Suzanne Lewis and Lisa Cotter, and their paper Have the Most Relevant and Answerable Research Questions Facing Librarians Changed Between 2001 and 2006?. In their paper, Lewis and Cotter reason that the disparity between questions being asked by information professionals and the evidence being generated by researchers equals a research‐practice gap. They also found that of the list of "focused and answerable questions representing current workplace issues" (p.1), as reported by delegates attending 2 EBP seminars in June 2006, the most commonly asked fell into the management and education domains! Interesting stuff. For the full list of questions, refer to Appendix A of the paper.