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   Evidence Based Library and Information Practice  
 

 

 

News/Announcements 
 

Congratulations to the UK North West Clinical Librarian Systematic Review and 

Evaluation Group  

 
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Congratulations to the UK North West Clinical 

Librarian Systematic Review and Evaluation 

Group who have won the Practitioner 

Researcher Excellence Award which has been 

awarded by the UK LIS Research Coalition.  

The group comprises a 15 member team of 

clinical librarians who work at a range of 

organizations across the UK NHS.  In the first 

instance the librarians conducted a systematic 

review to determine how best to evaluate 

clinical librarian services.  In a follow up 

project, they conducted a region-wide 

evaluation which put the recommendations of 

the review into practice to demonstrate how 

clinical librarians make an impact on a wide 

range of organizational outcomes.  Interim 

results of the project were presented at EBLIP6.  

The group was mentored by Alison Brettle of 

Salford University and the project is an 

excellent example of evidence based library 

and information practice.  The award will be 

presented at the DREaM conference on 9th July 

2012.   

 

Further information about the prizewinners 

and the project is available at  

http://lisresearch.org/2012/05/31/north-west-

clinical-librarian-systematic-review-and-

evaluation-group-wins-practitioner-

researcher-excellence-award/ and  

http://www.salford.ac.uk/nmsw/research/healt

h-technologies-and-evidence 

 

Further information about the DREaM 

conference, which may well be of interest to 

EBLIP readers, is available at  

http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-

event-5-conference-monday-9-july-2012/ 

 

http://lisresearch.org/2012/05/31/north-west-clinical-librarian-systematic-review-and-evaluation-group-wins-practitioner-researcher-excellence-award/
http://lisresearch.org/2012/05/31/north-west-clinical-librarian-systematic-review-and-evaluation-group-wins-practitioner-researcher-excellence-award/
http://lisresearch.org/2012/05/31/north-west-clinical-librarian-systematic-review-and-evaluation-group-wins-practitioner-researcher-excellence-award/
http://lisresearch.org/2012/05/31/north-west-clinical-librarian-systematic-review-and-evaluation-group-wins-practitioner-researcher-excellence-award/
http://www.salford.ac.uk/nmsw/research/health-technologies-and-evidence
http://www.salford.ac.uk/nmsw/research/health-technologies-and-evidence
http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-5-conference-monday-9-july-2012/
http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-5-conference-monday-9-july-2012/