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By Suzana Sukovic Our first webinar this year has shaped up into a very promising event. We now have a great line-up of presenters from health and libraries. They will consider research in professional practice from the perspective of a very successful capacity...

https://pixabay.com/en/smartphone-hand-photo-montage-faces-1445489/ By Suzana Sukovic LARK's first event this year will be an opportunity for some interprofessional learning. In this webinar, our guests will share experiences from health and libraries about different...

By Katherine Howard Gerolami, N. (2015) The library assemblage: creative institutions in an information society.  Journal of Documentation, 71(1), pp. 165-174. doi 10.1108/JD-09-2013-0120 “Institution or assembl…. What?!” Assemblage. Or, more specifically, the...

By Suzana Sukovic Now that New Year resolutions and plans are on the fast track to reality, it is time to tell everyone what LARK has on its collective mind for this, still fresh and promising year. On 30 November last year, a group of LARK’s faithful and some new...

By Suzana Sukovic At a time when information spurts from everywhere, numerous voices demand to be heard and traditional authorities are under scrutiny, academia occupies challenging and contested space. Particularly indicative of wider changes in the information and...

By Suzana Sukovic A definition and conceptual model of transliteracy was proposed in the previous post in this series titled What exactly is transliteracy? (also LARK post What is transliteracy?). In short, transliteracy was described as a fluidity...

#EBLIPRG November Enough with the Shhhhh! - Journal Discussion on Twitter By Fiona Macdonald Our EBLIP reading group is continuing to meet every second month on Twitter to discuss articles which support an evidence-based approach to Library issues. In November the...

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...

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....

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:...