Open AccessIntroduction
Author(s) -
David Stewart,
Sue Lacey Bryant,
Clare Edwards,
Dominic Gilroy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
library and information research/library and information research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2752-7336
pISSN - 1756-1086
DOI - 10.29173/lirg822
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , presidential system , health care , public relations , political science , power (physics) , presidential address , evidence based practice , library science , sociology , management , public administration , medicine , alternative medicine , computer science , world wide web , law , economics , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , politics
Every CILIP President has a theme. In David Stewart’s Presidential year in 2019, one of his themes was the need to focus on our own evidence base in libraries and therefore research.
In the NHS “evidence-based healthcare” has been an important driver for change since the 1990s. Evidence based healthcare led directly to evidence based librarianship and that too has been a powerful agent for change in NHS library and knowledge services. Nevertheless, there is much more to do – the power of evidence needs to be recognised across all our professional groups and we need a much more coordinated approach to its funding, development and dissemination.