LIS professional | Researcher
Recently, Clare O’Hanlon shared an article by Cat Lockmiller titled False Positive: Transphobic Regimes, Ableist Abandonment, and Evidence-Based Practice. (Thanks, Clare!). As someone who adopts evidence-based decision-making and has previously called for critical approaches within EBLIP, I was excited to see a critical perspective. While reading, I did wonder if some additional notes on EBLIP’s…
Are we evidence-based or informed, and does it matter? When I was focused on the evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP) space, I noticed a small handful of people in libraries preferred to say they were evidence-informed rather than evidence-based. This difference in language stuck with me. From my observations in the LIS profession,…
For the last few years, I’ve described my work as values-based. This was something that I saw as directly related to evidence-based library and information practice (EBLIP), as I’m a proponent of making values explicit in decision-making. I cared enough to write a paper on this and apply values-based practice to value/impact work in open…
It’s Disability Pride Month, and I’m celebrating community and connection. Last Friday, I unboxed some assistive listening technology. I’d had to wait for it, and so was worried I had only imagined the positive impact from the first time I trialled it. But it was still there, and I once again benefited from something I…
The past week I’ve been trialling a remote mic device and hearing aids in professional and social settings. Eventually, I’ll have to make decisions for the longer term. It made me think about the different types of evidence I’ll rely on for that decision. A colleague recently suggested that examples of applying evidence to decisions…