id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
eblip-23	McKenna, Julie	Evidence based research activities, interests and opportunities exist for practitioners in all library sectors in the British Isles	2006.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1078	39	33	User surveys were the most  common form of research undertaken across  libraries and slightly fewer respondents  intended to carry out research in the coming  twelve months than had in the past (the area  most commonly mentioned was user  surveys).   Libraries reported a range of common uses  for the research findings including:  informing strategic and service planning;  providing benchmarking data and  measuring the effectiveness of services;  identification of marketing and public  relations opportunities; discovery of staff  training needs; and use of the results to  demonstrate the value of libraries to  funding bodies.   	cache/eblip-23.pdf	txt/eblip-23.txt