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©2017 HABBENINK  http://www.habbenink.com By Suzana Sukovic Library and information professionals ask themselves regularly what they can do better to support research. It is a worthy question, but the answers never go far enough simply because we can’t really support research anymore. And how...

By Diana Hodge & Suzana Sukovic   We have just finished our three-year term as co-chairs for the ALIA Research Advisory Committee (RAC). Overall, it has been an extremely rewarding experience. It involved a lot of work, but it was worth it. However, many times over the three years, we...

By Suzana Sukovic Earlier this week (Wednesday, 22 February) LARK hosted a webinar entitled Research capacity building for professional practice. It was announced here and here. This webinar was a milestone for LARK as this was the first time we targeted different professional...

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 building program in health,...

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 approaches to research...

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 concept of assemblage as a...

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 people celebrated another...

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 knowledge field are humanistic...

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 of movement across a range of...

#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 reading is: McCaffrey, C. &...