Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals
A Handbook
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals
A Handbook
About this book
Evidence-based practice is a paradigm that originated within healthcare but is rapidly migrating to other fields. It involves applying the results from rigorous research studies to professional practice in order to improve the quality of services to clients. Familiarity with these methods has caused an increasing number of information professionals to turn a critical eye to their own practice. Is it possible to adapt this model to librarianship and information work? To what extent are its skills and techniques transferable to the various areas of professional practice? Is it desirable for information professionals to integrate research findings into their day-to-day decision-making? These and other related issues are discussed in this book, the first to examine this key topic in depth. It is divided into three parts: The Context for Evidence-based Information Practice; Skills And Resources for Evidence-based Information Practice; and Using the Evidence Base in Practice. This last part explores each of the six domains of evidence-based librarianship identified in research, to demonstrate the application of evidence-based information practice in a practical decision-making context. These chapters with their associated Special Topics present concise summaries of evidence-based information practice within generic areas of work, together with practical examples of the application of evidence-based principles and methods. This book is of wide interest to all new and established information professionals, both those in fields such as healthcare where the evidence-based paradigm is already impacting on their work, and those in other fields encountering it for the first time. It is a core text in departments of library and information work.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editors and contributors
- 1 Why evidence-based information practice?
- 2 A brief history of evidence-based practice
- 3 Evidence-based information practice: a prehistory
- 4 How good is the evidence base?
- 5 Why don’t librarians use research?
- 6 Formulating answerable questions
- 7 Identifying sources of evidence
- 8 Searching the library and information science literature
- 9 Appraising the evidence
- 10 Applying evidence to your everyday practice
- 11 Evaluating your performance
- 12 Disseminating the lessons of evidence-based practice
- 13 Six domains of evidence-based information practice
- 14 Examining the evidence base for reference services and enquiry work
- 15 The contribution of evidence-based practice to educational activities
- 16 An evidence-based approach to collection management
- 17 Towards evidence-based management
- 18 Evidence-based perspectives on information access and retrieval
- 19 Introducing an evidence-based approach to marketing and promotional activities
- 20 A future for evidence-based information practice?
- Index