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7th International Evidence Based Library and
Information
Practice Conference awarded to Saskatchewan, Canada for 2013
EBLIP7, the seventh in the successful series of
International
Conferences to promote evidence based approaches to library
and information
practice has been awarded to Saskatchewan, Canada to take
place in Summer 2013.
A strong team, coordinated by the University of Saskatchewan
Library, successfully
shook off a challenge from a well-presented South American
competitor to secure
the votes of the International Selection Committee.
Sheffield, England, December 20th, 2011 -- The International Advisory Committee (IAC) for the International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference Series [1] unanimously awarded the EBLIP7 Conference to the Saskatoon bid [2], coordinated by Virginia Wilson, Client Services Librarian, at the Murray Library, University of Saskatchewan.
Criteria for selection included the location, facilities, regional and national support, the strength of the organising team and unique selling points. Saskatchewan was commended for the overall quality of its proposal including a good understanding of the requirements of the conference, excellent support for the EBLIP movement and its recognition of the need to offer a spectrum of cost options.
Andrew Booth, Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice at the University of Sheffield, Convenor for the IAC, stated that “while the International Advisory Committee collectively felt a great deal of good will regarding opening up the movement to new areas of the world and to new sectors it soon became readily apparent that it was impossible to ignore the compelling business case and well-prepared portfolio from the Canadian team”.
Welcoming the Committee’s verdict Virginia Wilson, a long-time supporter of the EBLIP movement, both internationally and within Canada, said that the Saskatchewan Local Organising Committee “are honoured to be chosen and very excited to host the international EBLIP community in 2013”.
Ongoing information on the EBLIP7 Conference will be
shared with the
international community during 2012 and 2013 via the open access
journal, Evidence
Based Library and Information Practice, the principal
organ of the EBLIP
community, and the evidence-based-libraries jiscmail (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/EVIDENCE-BASED-LIBRARIES.html)
discussion list.
About the EBLIP Conference Series:
The EBLIP Conference is a biennial conference designed to
promote the
use of best available evidence to improve library and
information practice in
all types of libraries. It aims to bring together practitioners,
researchers
and students involved in critical and reflective information
practice to think
through new ways to address contemporary issues of evidence
based practice in
less isolated, more collaborative, ways. The first EBL(IP)
Conference took
place in Sheffield, UK in 2001. Subsequent conferences have been
hosted in
Edmonton (Canada, 2003), Brisbane (Australia, 2005), Chapel Hill
(USA, 2007), Stockholm
(Sweden, 2009) and Salford (UK, 2011).
Contact:
Andrew Booth,
Convenor of the International Advisory Committee,
c/o ScHARR, University of Sheffield
+44(0)114 222 0705
Notes for Editors:
1. The
International Advisory
Committee for the
International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Conference Series
is comprised of representatives from all previous conference
hosting sites – Denise
Koufogiannakis (Edmonton, 2003), Helen Partridge (Brisbane,
2005), Joanne
Marshall (North Carolina, 2007), Lotta Haglund (Stockholm, 2009)
and Maria
Grant/Alison Brettle (Salford, 2011). Selection of the EBLIP7
venue was co-ordinated
by Andrew Booth (Sheffield, 2001), a non-voting convenor.
2. Saskatoon is the largest city
(population-wise) in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada,
located just east of
Alberta and the Rocky Mountains and just west of Manitoba.
Saskatoon is in the
central area of the province, approximately 250km north of the
capital city of
Regina. Saskatoon is 620km from Calgary, Alberta, 1677km from
Vancouver,
British Columbia, and 2927km from Toronto, Ontario. The
Saskatoon John G.
Diefenbaker International Airport serves the City of Saskatoon.
There is
non-stop service to Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary,
Edmonton, Vancouver,
Minneapolis, Denver, and Chicago. There is one-stop, connecting
service to most
major Canadian, US, and international destinations via
Minneapolis/St.Paul,
Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Denver, Chicago & Las Vegas.
3. The
University Library,
University of
Saskatchewan, will be the host institution for EBLIP7. The
Local Organizing
Committee’s first choice is to hold the conference on the
University of
Saskatchewan campus. The University has both the facilities and
the ability to
create a sense of community that is perfect for conferences. It
is well
equipped to host an international conference with spacious,
functional rooms
available for plenary and concurrent sessions, and campus
Information
technology Services (ITS) on site. Additionally, the
University’s guest
wireless network internet service is available at no cost for
conference
delegates. There are accommodations on campus in the clean,
comfortable, and
convenient Voyageur Place Residences, or for those who wish to
stay in a hotel,
downtown hotel accommodations are a mere 5-10 minute cab ride, a
short bus
ride, or a 15-25 minute walk away.
4. Virginia
Wilson is an academic librarian working
at the
University of Saskatchewan. She was the co-convenor for the
Canadian Library
Association's Evidence Based Librarianship Interest Group and
created a toolkit
on evidence based librarianship for public libraries. She has
written evidence
summaries for the journal Evidence
Based
Library and Information Practice and currently writes the
EBL 101 column
for that journal. Research is an important part of Virginia’s
practice: she has
established a program of research, conducting research as a
faculty member and using
research evidence to inform her practice.