EditorialEvidence based library and information practice

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Keywords: evidence based library and information practice.Working in a health or social care sector, I imagine that most of us are familiar with the concept of evidence based practice, indeed it is likely that we are engaged in supporting clinicians in identifying, appraising and using evidence to inform their dayto-day activities; but how many of us adopt the same approach to our own work?Although first alluded to in 1997, 1 (p.7) the concept of evidence based library and information practice (formerly evidence based librarianship) can still be a relatively new and perhaps daunting endeavour for LIS workers being synonymous not only using evidence to inform practice but the generation of new evidence. Drawn from a variety of sources, Booth produced a typology of evidence to illustrate 'the need to consider which type of studies are most appropriate for answering different types of questions'. 2 However, whilst the generation of new knowledge ⁄ evidence is important to the library and

Visualizing the history of evidence‐based medicine: A bibliometric analysis

“…The term “evidence‐based librarianship,” established in 1997, has been expanded to “evidence‐based library and information practice,” and was chosen as the title of a leading journal in this field in March 2006: Evidence‐Based Library and Information Practice . (Eldredge, ; Eldredge, ; Eldredge ; Booth, ; Booth, ; Booth, ; Booth, ; Grant, ).…”