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Finding purpose & potential in library impact assessment

Posted on January 21, 2024January 24, 2024 by Emilia C. Bell

I’ve been grappling with value and impact in library evidence based practice over the last few years. It’s often been a source of dissonance (though one I keep returning to). It’s not that we lack frameworks, standards, and scholarship on library value and impact to refer to. For me, the problem lies in how we…

2023: A year of embracing the co- in co-lead

Posted on December 18, 2023November 10, 2024 by Emilia C. Bell

I’m not sure how to describe 2023. In January, I’d already started thinking that this might not be my year. Having lost a family member and then a pet shortly after, the year began with being asked to do a eulogy and a series of emergency vet trips. There were plenty of successes alongside the…

AI, evidence, values, and stories: Prompting partnership

Posted on August 18, 2023September 15, 2023 by Emilia C. Bell

What questions should AI prompt library professionals to ask about their sources of evidence?

The potential for partnership in evidence-based library practice

Posted on August 8, 2023September 15, 2023 by Emilia C. Bell

How can evidence-based practice in libraries be experienced as a shared process (with and for communities)?Approached with care, there is potential to see evidence-based practice in libraries as a shared process.

NLSX questions – Resilience is relational

Posted on August 1, 2023August 2, 2023 by Emilia C. Bell

Responses to questions recieved following my NLSX presentation.

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