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By Suzana Sukovic ​This is the last event of the year. We'll celebrate the end of a successful year and plan where we want to take LARK in 2017. From UTS, we'll connect online with colleagues in Adelaide who plan to start a LARK chapter in South Australia. LARKs from other Australian cities, or...

By Edward Luca Sign from Luca's & Narayan's article I started working in an academic library three years ago. At the time, I was completing my Bachelor’s degree in library and information science. The job was not as a librarian, but rather a communication officer. If you were to take the...

By Suzana Sukovic "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." (Anonymous; attributed to Einstein) This clever observation was one of many interesting points raised in Liz Walkley Hall's presentation Working as a practitioner researcher: view from the frontline. If you...

Hopefully, you've been inspired by Virginia Wilson's recent post about Canadian experience with LIS research and evidence based practice. In the next LARK Meet online, we'd like to connect inspiration and your good ideas with practice. The main presentation will be by Liz Walkley Hall, an...

By Virginia Wilson  At the University of Saskatchewan (U of S), located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, librarians are faculty members. This means that we are responsible for the practice of professional skills, service, and research. In fact, we are required to conduct and...

By Megan Fitzgibbons Our next discussion will focus on a recent study on the impact of participation in journal clubs--a topic that's close to home for #EBLIPRG participants! #EBLIPRG Journal club impacts Facilitated by Megan Fitzgibbons The reading is: Fitzgibbons, M., Kloda, L., &...

By Suzana Sukovic Hard to believe, but it is already time to put the last LARK events this year in your calendar: LARKMeet - 11 October 8 pm ONLINE Eat, drink and plan - 1 December 6 pm face-to-face in Sydney and online Our first online meeting was in June. We enjoyed our regular combination of...

By Suzana Sukovic Transliteracy as a concept originated in the work of academics who were involved in digital building and tinkering, people who got their hands dirty with some practical work while thinking theoretically (see Transliteracies Project and Transliteracy Research Group Archive). And...

By Suzana Sukovic Last night on Q&A Brian Cox said exactly what librarians have been saying for years, but it echoes much better coming from him. Tony Jones started by quoting Cox: “Changing your mind in the face of evidence is absolutely essential to the civilised democratic society” and...

By Megan Fitzgibbons Our next discussion will focus on a recent study on the impact of participation in journal clubs--a topic that's close to home for #EBLIPRG participants! #EBLIPRG Journal club impacts Facilitated by Megan Fitzgibbons The reading is: Fitzgibbons, M., Kloda, L., &...