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Evidence Based Librarianship: the UK response

Evidence Based Librarianship: the UK response . Andrew Booth, Chair of the LINC Health Panel Research and Horizon Scanning Task Group. The Pre-History. Pre-1997 Evidence Based Librarianship was just a label Knowledge of research design amongst health information practitioners was poor

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Evidence Based Librarianship: the UK response

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  1. Evidence Based Librarianship: the UK response Andrew Booth, Chair of the LINC Health Panel Research and Horizon Scanning Task Group

  2. The Pre-History • Pre-1997 Evidence Based Librarianship was just a label • Knowledge of research design amongst health information practitioners was poor • Health information practitioners had a poor knowledge of research findings • Much research was academic-led and academic-focused

  3. The changing external environment • Increasing librarian involvement in EBP • Librarians as partners in Critical Appraisal Skills Programmes • Librarians as retrievers of rigorous research and members of systematic review teams • Increasing centrality of libraries and health informatics to NHS agenda e.g. Information for Health, LIS and NeLH etceteras

  4. Health Libraries Group response • Chair (Bruce Madge) formed small working group (Andrew Booth, Jane Farmer, Enid Forsyth) to examine what needs to be done: 1. To stimulate & develop practitioner-based research 2. To investigate potential for synthesis and systematic review 3. To increase awareness and uptake of research

  5. Initial Achievements • Research for the Uninitiated Study Days (Sheffield & London) • Library-LORE (Literature Orientated Reviews of Effectiveness) Feasibility Study • Also discussed: links with “library schools”, links with LIRG, research funding, a research stimulation award, links with other professional groups

  6. LINC Health Panel Research Working Party • Merged RLG and HLG Research Working Parties • Brought in other constituencies e.g. LA • Strengthened skills base within the group • Focused on Research in the Workplace Award 1999 • Provided “mouthpiece” through Health Libraries Review Research Column

  7. Why Evidence Based Librarianship? • Fundamentally a pragmatic paradigm - for practitioners • Addresses information management (IM) problems (overload, poor specification, problematic interpretation) using IM techniques (focusing, filtering, appraising) and extends existing librarian skills.

  8. What is EBL? “an approach to information science that promotes the collection, interpretation, and integration of valid, important and applicable user-reported, librarian-observed, and research-derived evidence. The best available evidence, moderated by user needs and preferences, is applied to improve the quality of professional judgements” (After McKibbon et al, 1995)

  9. RIWA 1999/2001 • Funded by HLG/UMSLG/UHSL/LfN/IFM • Lead applicant must be practitioner • Commitment to dissemination • 7 applicants (1999) rated according to LIRG Daphne Clarke criteria • Michelle Kirkwood, Glasgow Delphi Study • 2001 Award to be promoted at EBL Conference

  10. LIBRARY-LORE • Feasibility study - end user vs intermediary searching • Concluded: Evidence base variable, reporting poor, information sources diffuse, requires development of qualitative methods of synthesis • Recommended: best available evidence approach + focus on appraisal of individual studies

  11. CRISTAL (q.v. Anne Brice) • CRItical Skills Training in Appraisal for Librarians (based on CASP) • Recognition of multiplicity of designs/ types of question • Envisaged as component of NeLH Librarian Development Programme • Possible dissemination via NeLH Librarians’ portal

  12. Dissemination • Series of three LAR articles • evidence-based-libraries@JISCMAIL • ICML/MLA/LIANZA Conferences • HLR/HILJ Research Column: proposals, questions, reviews, appraisal, CRISTAL • EBL 2001 Conference • HILJ Special Issue 2003 • LA Book?

  13. EBL - Systematic review model Review literature Prioritise question Research Practice E.g. Clinical Librarians RETROSPECTIVE Practice Guidelines CRISTAL Checklists

  14. EBL - HTA Model Determine topic Convene expert panel Collect and synthesise data Determine data collection elements Produce guidelines Specify future research E.g. Primary Care Knowledge Projects PROSPECTIVE

  15. From Synchronicity to Synergy • 1999 - Report on Eldredge Workshop • 2000 - MLA Presentation • 2001 - MLA EBL Implementation Committee • 2001 - EBL Conference U.S./Canada • 2002-2003?

  16. The Way Forward • EBL Workshops • Development of CRISTAL tools • RIWA Award • Stimulation of reviews • Research methods • Guidelines/algorithms • Academic/practice links • Your suggestions???

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