hi virginia

Looks like your sabbatical project!  Have you tweeted this anywhere?  I ask as I can get Hazel Hall to forward it on to the UK LIS DREaM community - a network of UK library practitioners.  She tends to use twitter for lots of communicatonI'll also forward it to our UK Library Research List.

I'm happy to take part - although I'm not your traditional library practitioner

bw

alison

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  1. Are you a librarian who conducts research? I'd like to talk to you!
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Date:    Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:09:12 +0000
From:    "Wilson, Virginia" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Are you a librarian who conducts research? I'd like to talk to you! (apologies for cross posting)

My name is Virginia Wilson and I am a librarian at the University Library, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada. Are you a practicing UK or Canadian librarian who is also conducting research? If so, I invite you to participate in a research study entitled Practitioner-Researchers: Exploring the World of Librarians Who Conduct Research. I'm looking for practicing librarians currently working in any library sector (special, school, public, academic) with demonstrable research output (conference presentation(s), paper(s) in a journal, internal report(s), internal presentation(s), etc.). The purpose of the research is to identify key issues, to explore the challenges, benefits, and possible risks of conducting research in a practice setting, and to investigate what it means to be a librarian practitioner-researcher. Participation will involve taking part in a 45 to 90 minute interview on site at your location. The timeframe for the interviews is from September to December 2012.

This project will contribute to the body of knowledge in Library and Information Science (LIS) and be helpful in several ways: its publication would be a valuable inclusion into reading lists at LIS schools in order to expose students to the wide variety of research and research possibilities that are available to them as practitioners; it would inform library leaders and managers of an additional role that librarians might take on in the practice setting that would benefit the organization; and it would be an important look into the role of the practitioner-researcher from a library perspective.

If you are interested in participating in this research project, please contact me at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> . I would be happy to answer any questions you may have, whether you volunteer to participate or not. At this time I am not looking for librarians who are solely teaching at LIS schools or librarians who are solely in the role of expert searchers for projects outside of the LIS discipline.

This research project has been approved on ethical grounds by the University of Saskatchewan Research Ethics Board on May 17, 2012.



Virginia Wilson, MA, MLIS
Librarian
University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Room 361 North Wing, Murray Building, 3 Campus Dr
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A4

Plan to attend EBLIP7, July 15-18, 2013 University of Saskatchewan http://eblip7.library.usask.ca/

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