Keynote Speakers

Andrew Booth has been working as a health information professional since 1983, the last decade of this has been at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield as Director of Information Resources and now Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice. His current brief is to support evidence-based healthcare within the University of Sheffield and Trent geographical region. Andrew is an experienced trainer of end-users and NHS Librarians in literature searching and critical appraisal. He has developed and delivered the ADEPT course on applying evidence based principles to literature searching in six NHS regions. Andrew attended the first ever UK Workshop in Teaching Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford and has subsequently tutored at three Northern and Yorkshire Evidence Based Practice Workshops in Durham.

Andrew is on the editorial baords of Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries and Health Information and Libraries Journal (formerly Health Libraries Review). He contributes the quarterly Using Research in Practice column to the Health and Libraries Journal (HILJ). Together with colleagues in the Inforamtion Resources Section at ScHARR he organized the first Evidence Based Librarianship Conference in Sheffield in September 2001. He has subsequently chaired the International Programme COmmittee for the 2nd Evidence Based Librarianship Conference (Edmonton, canada, 2003) and for the 3rd Evidence Based Librarianship Conference (Brisbane, Australia, 2005). He co-edited (with Jonathan Eldredge) a special issue of HILJ on Evidence Based Health Information Practice and is co-editor of Evidence Based Practice for Information Professionals: a handbook (Facet Publishing, 2004). Andrew owns the www.eblib.net domain, an international gateway to resources in evidence based information practice.

An abstract of Mr Booths' presentation - Evidence Based Information Practice: An ABC and Y? may be found here .

Anne Brice is currently Acting Head of Service for the National Library for Health in England. After qualifying in 1983 Anne worked at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, followed by a post at Queen Mary College, both in the University of London. Following six years as Regional Librarian in the Borders Health Board, Scotland she was appointed in 1995 as Librarian at the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford. She moved to the post of Assistant Director of the Health Care Libraries Unit, University of Oxford in 1996 with responsibility for co-ordinating and facilitating training, networking, and co-operation among the member libraries of the Health Libraries and Information Network. In 2002 she was seconded to the National electronic Library for Health as Specialist Libraries Development Manager, building knowledge networks and communities of practice around specialist health care domains. Anne’s current professional interests include evidence based practice, e-learning in evidence-based health care, mentoring and professional development, knowledge quality, and the information professionals role in facilitating knowledge management.

An abstract of Ms Brices' presentation - Evidence Based Information Practice: An ABC and Y? may be found here .

Eric Davies is Director of LISU, - a UK national research and information centre dedicated to supporting the development of good management practice in the various public and private sector agencies that make up the strands of the information economy and cultural services. He is also a member of Faculty in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University . Prior to his current appointment he was a Lecturer in the Department and acted as the University's Copyright Officer. His experience of professional practice includes over 25 years in academic library management. He also has experience of public libraries and special libraries. His main interests lie in statistics and performance indicators in information management, strategic management of libraries, the impact of legal and ethical issues on information management (he has made a special study of data protection), scientific and technical information, and information skills development. He has been active in professional association affairs for many years. He is currently Group Councillor and Vice-Chair of the Library and Information Research Group of CILIP. He also chairs CILIP's Policy Development Committee. He is a Corresponding Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section and a member of the Editorial Board of Library Management . He has published widely and delivered numerous conference papers and workshop presentations.

An abstract of Dr Davies' presentation - Four Dimensional Evidence Based Management: Calculating, Comparing, Contrasting and Containing may be found here .

Peter Macauley has worked for more than 25 years in public, special and university libraries. He is currently the Library Manager at Deakin University 's Waterfront campus and Faculty Librarian, Education. Over the past decade his research has focused on doctoral education and information literacy and during this period he has published or presented more than thirty papers on those topics. His PhD thesis is titled ‘Doctoral research and scholarly communication: candidates, supervisors and information literacy'. He is a Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council funded project ‘Working students: reconceptualising the doctoral experience'. The project funds two doctoral scholarships, one at the Australian National University and another at Deakin University . Dr Macauley is also working on another project, ‘Research capacity-building: the development of Australian PhD programs in national and emerging global contexts'. Some of his professional concerns include: the need for practitioner research to be based upon genuine research rather than rhetorical opinions; the skills needed by modern day library and information professionals in relation to practitioner research; and the issue of credential creep.

An abstract of Dr Macauley's presentation - The Doctoring of Evidence Based Librarianship may be found here . Presentation powerpoint slides

Joanne Gard Marshall is currently an Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having served as Dean of the school from 1999 to 2004. Prior to 1999, Joanne was a faculty member at the University of Toronto, where she taught courses in health sciences information resources, management of corporate and other specialized information centers, research methods and online information retrieval. In addition to her Ph.D. in public health, Joanne holds at Master of Health Science Degree from McMaster University and a Master of Library Science degree from McGill University. In 2005 she received an honorary doctorate from McGill.

Before assuming her faculty appointment at the University of Toronto, Joanne worked for 15 years as a librarian in various academic and health sciences libraries. She has received a number of awards including the Medical Library Association (MLA) doctoral fellowship, the MLA Eliot Prize for the most significant research in medical librarianship for 1982 and 1992, the Award of Outstanding Achievement from the Canadian Health Libraries Association in 1992. From the Special Libraries Association she received the H.W. Wilson Award in 1997, the John Cotton Dana Award in 1998 and the Factiva Leadership Award in 2004. During 2004-2005 she served as President of the Medical Library Association. She is a fellow of both the Medical Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. In her spare time, Joanne enjoys yoga and gardening.

An abstract of Dr Marshall's presentation - Evidence-based Librarianship: Linking Research to Practice in the North American Context may be found here .