UBC Library Journal Club

Our first journal club meeting is next week. We are discussing the topic of Evidence Based Librarianship, and we are doing our discussion in collaboration with SLAIS – UBC library school…I am certainly looking forward for that…We have lots of experience in the library on this topic, which is pretty hot nowadays in library circles…

• Date – Wed, 13 January 2010, 12:00 – 13:30
• Speakers – Charlotte Beck and Margaret Friesen, UBC Library; Heather O’Brien, SLAIS
• Location – Dodson Room, Barber Center

We are asking folks to read (or quickly browse) two articles prior to the meeting:

Steve Hiller, Martha Kyrillidou, and Jim Self, “When the Evidence is Not Enough:
Organizational Factors That Influence Effective and Successful Library Assessment,”
Performance Measurement and Metrics 9, 3 (2008): 223–30. Available to UBC folks at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=/published/emeraldfulltextarticle/pdf/2790090306.pdf

Eldredge, J. D.  “Evidence based librarianship: an overview”. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 2000, 88,  282–302. Available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC35250/

Moreover, you can take a look on those two sites:

1. ARL, for types of statistical data and types of publications (data resources, findings, benchmarks, etc.): http://www.arl.org/, Look under Resources, especially ARL Statistics, Publications (“ARL”, now called “Research Library Issues”, “SPEC kits”)
2. UBC Planning & Institutional Research (PAIR): for demographic data – http://www.pair.ubc.ca/statistics/index.htm, see Statistics – Students, Faculty and Staff for the kinds of data available

Here is my article about our journal club that we are running in UBC for the last two years – “A Library Journal Club as a Tool for Current Awareness and Open Communication: UBC case study” which oddly sees light online during the last week of 2009.

It is published in a free, open access, Canadian journal  – Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

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