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News/Announcements 
 
EBLIP6 Conference Award Winners 
 
 
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The EBLIP6 conference was held at the 
University of Salford, U.K. from June 27‐30, 
2011.  The conference was a great success and 
was attended by 170 delegates from 27 
countries.  The December issue of Evidence Based 
Library and Information Practice will include a 
feature section on the conference, but in the 
meantime many of the conference presentations 
and photos from the conference are available on 
the conference website at 
http://www.eblip6.salford.ac.uk. 
 
Over the three main days of the conference, 
there were over 60 presentations given in seven 
parallel sessions and 20 poster presentations, 
some of whom also presented at “one minute 
poster madness” sessions.  As at previous 
conferences, presentations and posters were 
judged by members of the International 
Programme Committee (IPC), and for the first 
time at an EBLIP conference, the audience was 
also asked to nominate their favourite 
presentations and posters.   
 
The winner of the best presentation was the 
same for both the IPC and audience vote:  

o Kate Davis, Queensland University of 
Technology, and Zaana Howard, 
Swineburn University of Technology – 

Redesigning Evidence Based Practice for 
Wicked Problem Solving.   

Winner of the IPC best poster was:  
o Philip Kroth, Holly Philips and Jonathan 

Eldredge, University of New Mexico – 
Evaluation of an Evidence‐Based 
Scholarly Communication Conference 
Focused on Support of Translational 
Investigators Using a Prospective 
Longitudinal Cohort Design;  

Best Poster as voted for by conference delegates 
was:  

o Mary Dunne, Health Research Board, 
Ireland – Barriers and Facilitators to 
Research Use: The Role of Library and 
Information Services.   

Judging for the best presentation was very close, 
and a number of presentations received 
commendations from the IPC.  These included:  
 

o Carolynn Rankin and Avril Brock, 
Leeds Metropolitan University – The 
Potential of Generic Social Outcomes in 

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Promoting The Positive Impact Of The 
Public Library 

o Denise Koufogiannakis, University of 
Alberta – Considering the Place of 
Practice Based Evidence Within EBLIP  

o Jackie Druery, Nancy McCormack and 
Sharon Murphy, Queen’s University – 
Are Best Practices Really Best? A 
Review of "Best Practices" in Library 
Literature 

o Joanne Marshall, University of North 
Carolina – Measuring Value of Health 
Library and Information Services: 
Replicating the Rochester Study 

o Lisa M Given, University of Alberta – 
Evidence Based Web Design: A User‐
Driven Approach to Providing 
Consumer Health Information 

o Lorie Kloda, McGill University, Denise 
Koufogiannakis, University of Alberta 
and Alison Brettle, University of Salford 

– The Impact of Evidence Summaries on 
LIS practitioners 

Highly Commended Posters as voted for by the 
IPC included:  
 

o Elaine Garratt and Lucy Reid, Royal 
College of Obstetricians and 
Gynaecologists – Clinical Query 
Services From the Royal College of 
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists;   

o Karen Walshe, The British Library – 
Defining a New Role: The Embedded 
Research Information Manager;  

o Sandy Campbell, Dale Storie, Brettany 
Johnson and Robert Hayward, 
University of Alberta – Using a 
Professional Continuing Medical 
Education Simulation to Engage 
Undergraduate Medical Students in 
Information Literacy 

Congratulations to all the presentation and 
poster winners! 
 

 


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