... in applying the best available evidence to answering the more important questions facing their practice, their institutions, and the profession. This evidence can become the basis for making sound decisions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Evidence‐based practice Librarianship Librarians...

...Su Cleyle; Liz Bayley; Ann McKibbon Purpose Seeks to spread the concept of evidence‐based practice beyond the health sector. Design/methodology/approach The authors have worked with physicians and nurses and offer their observations from being part of the development of the skills and tools...

... will encourage librarians to think about how they can incorporate research into their daily practice. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Evidence‐based practice Librarianship Research Evidence‐based librarianship (EBL), or evidence based information practice (EBIP), entails finding...

... presents examples of qualitative research in the field of library and information studies, reviews the discourse of EBL as it relates to qualitative research, and also draws on debates in the health sciences on the role of qualitative research in evidence‐based practice. Findings EBL levels of evidence...

... Publishing Limited 2006 Andrew Booth can be contacted at: a.booth@sheffield.ac.uk The first stage of evidence‐based practice, whether in medicine, nursing, education or librarianship, is to convert information needs from practice into “focused, structured questions” (Rosenberg and Donald...

... rigorous research and publishing will be encouraged as more librarians and information professionals adopt the practice of EBL and utilize this critical appraisal model © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Evidence‐based practice Librarianship research Evidence‐based librarianship...

...Su Cleyle; Helen Partridge; Gillian Hallam Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider how library education can best incorporate the profession's emerging interest in evidence‐based practice (EBP) whilst ensuring that the educational experience is meaningful to the contemporary library...