News


 


Call for Papers: EBLIP10,
15-19 June, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK


 


 


 2018. This is an Open Access article
distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons‐Attribution‐Noncommercial‐Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/),
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial
purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the
same or similar license to this one.


 


 


DOI: 10.18438/eblip29504




 





 


Conference Theme:
"Using evidence in times of uncertainty"


 


The use of evidence is
becoming more and more important as a routine part of library planning and
decision making. Whilst in an era of library de-funding, calls for
accountability, fake news, and complex information environments, evidence is
becoming an essential component of advocacy. 


 


This inclusive conference
theme will encourage practitioners and researchers to think about what evidence
is, how we collect it, and how we use it in these uncertain times.


 


The conference aims to offer a stimulating and varied
programme of workshops, presentations, posters and discussions designed to
appeal to library and information professionals convinced about using
evidence-based approaches as well as those who may have previously thought that
evidence-based practice (or attending an EBLIP conference) wasn’t for them.
Pre-conference workshops covering a range of topics relating to research,
evaluation and evidence based practice will be held on 15-16 June 2019. The
main conference will take place 17-19 June 2019.


The conference will provide a practical and accessible
forum for librarians and information practitioners from all sectors to
discover, use and disseminate evidence that may contribute to decision-making
and advocacy in today’s professional practice. This includes (but is not
inclusive to) those who:


 


	Are interested in the evaluation of library services or library
     assessment
	Need to demonstrate the impact or value of their library service
	Wish to build an evidence-based approach to their practice
	Collect data about their services but don’t know what to do with it
	Wish to include the user experience in library decision making
	Are interested in methods for evidence-based library and
     information practice



 


EBLIP conferences tend to be relatively small and
particularly friendly places offering a stimulating environment for librarians
across sectors to meet and share ideas. We welcome librarians attending an
EBLIP conference for the first time and have provided a lively social programme
to complement the academic content.


 


Proposal submissions:


 


Submissions are invited in the form of 1) papers (for
an oral presentation - 20 minutes) or 2) posters. For papers and posters,
abstracts of no more than 350 words
should be submitted using a structured abstract form (Title, Aim, Methods,
Results, Discussion/Conclusion).  


 


Submissions should address an area related to the
conference theme – “Using evidence in times of uncertainty.” All submissions
will be subject to double blind peer review by members of the International
Programme Committee. All submissions must be via the Easychair conference
management system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eblip10.



 


Following the conference, authors are encouraged to
submit their papers to practitioner focussed open access journals. Following
each EBLIP conference, the EBLIP
journal invites authors to contribute to a special feature.  See https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.php/EBLIP/issue/view/1942
for the feature from EBLIP9.


 


Key Dates:


 


	7 September 2018 – Call for papers opens
	30 November 2018 – Call for
     papers closes
	15 January 2019 – Authors of
     submissions notified of decision
	15 February 2019 – Deadline
     for authors of submissions to confirm participation
	Spring 2019 –
     Registration opens



 


For further information, please consult the conference
website – https://eblip10.org


 


Submission:


 


To submit an abstract access:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eblip10 


 


If you already have an
EasyChair account, login.  Alternatively,
you can create an account.


 


	Click on submissions
	Click on add submission (top right hand
     corner of screen)
	Enter the author details
	Enter your abstract – Please remember –
     This should be in a structured form (Title, Aim, Methods, Results, Discussion/conclusion) and not more
     than 350 words  



	Indicate whether your abstract should be considered as a paper or
     poster



 


For programme queries,
please contact the International Programme Chair, Alison Brettle – a.brettle@salford.ac.uk 


 


Please follow us on
Twitter @ConfEblip and post using #EBLIP10.