The Centre for Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (C-EBLIP) Director’s Report to the Dean on 2016/17

2016/17 saw a continuation of the work begun the previous year. The C-EBLIP Research Network (CRN) was formed. The CRN was an affiliation of international institutions interested in librarians as researchers and/or evidence based practice. Great strides were made in recruiting member institutions from around the world. As of April 2017, members included the following affiliates:  University of Windsor Library, Windsor, ON, Canada  Concordia Library, Montreal, PQ, Canada  University of Victoria Library, Victoria, BC, Canada  University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton, AB, Canada  Carleton Library, Ottawa, ON, Canada  University of Northampton Library, Northampton, UK  LARK Library Applied Research Kollektive (ALIA group), Australia  University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, ON, Canada  Mount Royal University Library, Calgary, ON, Canada  Cambridge University Library and Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge, UK  Western Libraries, London, ON, Canada  UBC Okanagan Library, Kelowna, BC, Canada  Flinders University Library, Adelaide, Australia  University of Regina Library, Regina, SK, Canada  University Library, University of Saskatchewan  Hong Kong Baptist University Library  University of Southern Queensland Library, Australia  Public Health England Knowledge & Library Services, Bristol, UK  Loyola Marymount University Library, Los Angeles, CA, USA  Health Research Board, Dublin, Ireland This work aligned with the internationalization efforts of the University of Saskatchewan, and further enhanced the University Library’s reputation as an institution strong in librarian researchers. I travelled to Toronto in February of 2017 to give a poster presentation at the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference about the Research Network. Momentum was really picking up after a year of recruitment and promotion. Unfortunately, due to the poor provincial budget and concerns from new library leadership about return on investment and sustainability, the C-EBLIP Research Network was dismantled in April 2017. While C-EBLIP is still focused on supporting librarians as researchers and promoting evidence based library and information practice, the opportunity for expansion and further developments in this area outside of the University Library has been curtailed.

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