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The Eighth International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference Suzana Sukovic LARK @ EBLIP8 The EBLIP8 draft program is ready now with workshops galore. Check it out and start planning a wonderful mid-winter/mid-summer break in Brisbane! Three days talking about evidence-based...

By Janine Schmidt Karen Tang, Quality assurance improvements in Australian university libraries Performance Measurement and Metrics vol. 14(1) 2013 pp.36-44 The need to reduce costs and maintain or extend services has led to an increasing focus on continuous improvement strategies within...

This article was published in Incite, Jan/Feb 2015 By Alycia Bailey In conversation with an older colleague, Alycia Bailey was informed she was no longer a new librarian, but a librarian toddler: still learning to walk on her own, but no longer likely to slump into a ‘death position’ if left...

Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E-merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices An INKE-hosted Birds-of-a-Feather Gathering 8 December 2014, State Library of New South Wales By Suzana Sukovic A Birds-of-a-Father Gathering hosted by the Canadian...

By Michael Olsson https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/3269557195/sizes/o/ It’s fair to say that this is a question I’ve heard more than once in my career, sometimes from a student gazing in dismay at a reading list which includes Castells, Dervin and the occasional dead Frenchmen – but also on...

By Suzana Sukovic Findings of the digital storytelling project iTell have been recently reported in the Australian Academic and Research Libraries (ALIA) under the title 'iTell: transliteracy and digital storytelling'. Workshops have been offered for three years in a row, research findings have...

By Jennifer Berryman This artice was first published in InCite (September 2014) Writing is the theme of this LIS Investigations column – at first glance, not a natural partner with the issue theme of collaboration, as writing is seen by many as a solitary endeavour.  But of course, writing...

By Clare Thorpe The eighth International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice conference (EBLIP8) is returning to Australia in July 2015. Ten years after the third conference ventured to the southern hemisphere, Brisbane is again host city for EBLIP8 from July 6th to 8th 2015. This...

By Suzana Sukovic During a time of frequent change and, in many areas, increasing regulation, the library and information profession often revisits its professional standards. LIS professionals who work in educational and medical organisations are particularly used to...