Campus map to the Graham Hills Building
Don't forget to sign up for the optional tours on Tuesday and Wednesday available to delegates and their guests!

Sunday, 16 June: Half-day workshops (£50 per workshop)
Morning workshops (choose one)
1. Advocacy through impact: A practical workshop
Location: Graham Hills 512
David McMenemy, University of Strathclyde, UK
This hands-on workshop explores the topic of advocacy and how it is understood within LIS, and how it can often be misunderstood as simply marketing. It highlights the importance of mission and purpose in advocacy, and explores how we can communicate effectively with people who may not view our services the way we do. It considers effective ways to communicate the value of library and information services, and introduces the components of an advocacy strategy.
2. Information overload: Using the systematic review to support evidence-based practice
Location: Graham Hills 513
Claire Wiley, Belmont University, USA
Meggan Houlihan, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Amanda Click, American University, USA
In the era of information overload, the scholarly literature can be a rich source of inspiration and practical tips when we face a challenging issue or question. But it can also be overwhelming or seemingly contradictory. A systematic review, which involves the systematic collection, appraisal and synthesis of research, is a valuable tool that can help us understand findings and identify best practices. This workshop will address appropriate contexts in which LIS practitioners and researchers might utilize this method, systematic review study design, as well as practical considerations and lessons learned by the presenters. Attendees will come away from this session with a deep understanding of this challenging but valuable method, and how it can inform practice.
Afternoon workshops (choose one)
1. Being evidence based in library and information practice: Incorporating evidence-based practice into your workplace
Location: Graham Hills 513
Denise Koufogiannakis, University of Alberta, Canada
Alison Brettle, University of Salford, UK
Based on the book edited by the facilitators, this workshop will walk participants through the EBLIP model put forward and tested by Koufogiannakis (2013) and provide an opportunity for participants to work through and develop an evidence-based approach to their own practice.
2. Outcome measurement in academic libraries: The project outcome model
Location: Graham Hills 512
Sara Goek, Association for College & Research Libraries, American Library Association
ACRL's Project Outcome for Academic Libraries is a free online toolkit designed to help academic libraries assess the impact of essential library programs and services. It provides simple surveys and tools for measuring and analysing key learning outcomes, including interactive data dashboards. In this interactive workshop attendees will learn how to use the Project Outcome surveys and resources and to use that data as the basis for continuous improvements and advocacy.
Social Events
Monday, 17 June
5-6pm: Welcome Reception at Glasgow City Chambers, which is a 10 minute walk from Graham Hills. We thank the Lord Provost and Glasgow City Council for hosting this Civic Reception.

Tuesday, 18 June
6:30pm-midnight: Drinks, conference dinner, ceilidh, and dance at Òran Mór (Gaelic for 'great melody of life' or 'big song'), which is in a beautiful former parish church in Glasgow's West End with an interesting history. Read about Alasdair Gray, an artist and native Glaswegian, who created the building's amazing ceiling mural.
Wednesday, 19 June
Afternoon: Optional post-conference tour of Glengoyne Distillery, a whisky distillery dating from 1833 which is located 30 minutes north of Glasgow.
Keynote Presentations and Accepted Papers
Abstracts for accepted papers
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Room GH512 |
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Monday, 17 June |
9:00-10:30am: Opening session and keynote by David Stewart: '"Biblio what?' Birmingham, Briggs and beyond: A practitioner's evidence journey" |
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Session A: 10:45am-12:15pm |
Using routine evidence within health libraries |
Using qualitative methods to demonstrate value and impact |
Building skills |
Chloe Stewart. How are information seekers really searching? Analysing user routes through an enquiry management system |
Susan Archambault. In their own Words: Using student feedback to improve LibGuides |
Lorie Kloda, Jodi Philbrick and Susan Lessick. Reducing uncertainty: Building health sciences librarians’ capacity for evidence-based practice through a Research Training Institute |
Stacey Astill. Statistical Shields: Drawing Manx libraries together in uncertain times |
Nicola Pearce-Smith. Demonstrating the value and impact of literature searches conducted for Public Health England (PHE): Collecting Impact Stories |
Anne Goulding and Jennifer Campbell-Meier. Evidencing the impact of CPD workshops on librarians' professional practice |
Dominic Gilroy. National collation of quantitative evidence from an NHS Library and Knowledge Services Impact Questionnaire: challenges and uses |
Louise Graham. Storing Stories - answering the So What? question |
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Session B: 1:00-2:30pm |
Meeting user needs |
Digital and media literacy |
New roles for health librarians |
Lee Ann Fullington and Matthew Harrick. New campus, new information: Library support for transfer students |
Katie Edwards, Christine Gallagher and Kristi Long. Supporting digital information literacy in post-integration Scottish health and social care |
Michelle Kirkwood. The role of the Knowledge Broker in the development of Clinical Decision Support |
Esther E. Carrigan, Heather K. Moberly, Eric G. Riddle, L.M. Rey and Molly Crews. Using pilot program evidence to determine feasibility and parameters of a new service |
Angela Short and Lindsay McKrell. Work IT – how libraries can deliver digital support for employability and the lessons for wider digital inclusion |
Diane Pennington and Laura Cagnazzo. Library linked data implementations and perceptions: Implications for practice |
Laura Kuo. Evidence on how libraries enhance the academic success of at-risk students |
Doreen Bradley and Craig Smith. How do college students find and evaluate news? Using evidence to improve teaching methods for media literacy |
Paul Levay and Jenny Craven. Reflections on the role of expert searcher in times of uncertainty: A NICE case study |
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Session C: 3:00-4:30pm |
Developing methods for EBLIP |
User needs |
Methods - Using electronic media to collect evidence |
Clare Thorpe and Alisa Howlett. Developing certainty via a maturity model for evidence-based library and information practice in university libraries |
Christine Wolff-Eisenberg and Janet Fletcher. Collectively supporting faculty: A national study of research and teaching practices and needs |
Deborah Charbonneau. The e-Delphi Method: Opportunities for soliciting and analyzing expert opinions |
Thane Chambers and Sharon Murphy. The Big Bang: When evidence and affect collide. A case study in group decision making |
Jung Mi Scoulas and Sandra De Groote. Factors affecting university students’ library visits in person and online using a multiple regression approach |
Erika E. Smith and Richard Hayman. Meaningfully mixing methods for large social media datasets |
Paula Ochôa and Leonor Gaspar Pinto. Gathering evidence for Sustainable Development Goals: An alignment perspective |
Jonathan Eldredge, Sumit Patel and Laura J. Hall. Information resources valued by medical students in a clinical reasoning course |
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Tuesday, 18 June |
9:00-10:30: Poster Madness and Keynote by Frankie Wilson: "Just do it! Don't let perfect be the enemy of action"
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Session D: 11:00am-12:30pm |
Value, impact, and outcomes |
Systematic reviews |
Planning and evaluating services |
Clare Hemsworth and Andrew Givan. The Scottish Attainment Challenge in Renfrewshire school libraries: Using evidence based programmes in school libraries to help close the poverty related attainment gap |
Lynda Ayiku and Jenny Craven. Developing validated geographic search filters to search efficiently and effectively for context-sensitive topics |
Christine Wolff-Eisenberg. Addressing unmet needs: Developing and testing services for important campus communities |
Pip Divall and Cathryn James. The impact of the Clinical Librarians in the NHS: findings of a national study |
Amanda Click, Meggan Houlihan and Claire Wiley. Distilling the evidence: A systematic review of business information literacy |
David Morgan. Evidence gathering for project management – supporting planning, executing, and evaluating |
Maria Beatriz Marques and Leonor Calvão Borges. From the management of assumptions to the management of evidence: The evaluation of the outcomes of information systems |
M. Brooke Robertshaw and Andrew Asher. Aggregated impacts and individual risks: A systematic review and meta-analysis of library impact studies |
Håkan Carlsson and Tore Torngren. General user surveys and other methods for Quality Assessment – user knowledge and evidence-based library development |
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Session E: 1:30-2:30pm |
Publishing |
Digital Services |
Meeting user needs in non-traditional communities |
Lorie Kloda, Denise Koufogiannakis and Virginia Wilson. Research for librarianship: A study of a decade of Canadian faculty publications |
Karim Tharani. Of evidence and technology: How EBLIP helped safeguard an oral tradition |
Joanna Hare and Mengjie Zou. Into the unknown: Developing an evidence-based information literacy program for a non-traditional undergraduate program |
Richard Hayman. Is it illegitimate evidence? A facilitated discussion on predatory publishing and EBP |
Kathryn Barrett and Sabina Pagotto. Local users, consortial providers: Seeking points of dissatisfaction with a collaborative virtual reference service |
Jennifer Zhao and Tara Mawhinney. Assessment of multilingual library orientation videos |
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Session F: 2:30-3:30pm |
National initiatives for health libraries |
Graduate student needs |
Collections |
Clare Edwards and Dominic Gilroy. The development and implementation of Quality Improvement Standards for NHS Library and Knowledge Services |
Hilary Bussell, Jennifer Schnabel and Amanda Rinehart. To collaborate or not to collaborate: Subject librarians re-examine graduate student outreach |
Jaclyn Mclean, Dede Dawson and Charlene Sorensen. Communicating collections cancellations to campus: Qualitative evidence to inform practice |
Cecily Gilbert, Kathleen Gray, Kerryn Butler-Henderson and Ann Ritchie. Digital health and professional identity in Australian health libraries: Evidence from a census of the Australian health information workforce |
Joe Lenkart. Building long-term research relationships: Reference services for graduate students |
Pearl Herscovitch and Madelaine Vanderwerff. If you build it, will they (really) come? Proximity and other factors affecting education students’ use of Mount Royal Library's Curriculum Collection |
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Session G, 4:30-5:30pm |
Emerging roles for librarians |
Needs and behaviour of nursing students |
Assessment |
Jordan Nielsen. New Venture Librarianship: Practical implications from the Entrepreneurship Librarian job market |
Diane Ingram. User Needs – User Gets: Developing academic and information literacy skills modules for nursing students at an Australian university, using an evidence-based approach for student success |
Elizabeth Brown and Maureen Rust. Creating reason from results: Interpreting student assessment data at scale |
Tom Hudson and Liz Walton. Can a searcher become a screener? Evidence of a search team’s capability to perform title/abstract screening of literature search results for NICE common infections evidence reviews |
Peter Stokes. Profiling the information seeking behaviour of nursing students |
Sally Bell and Fiona Tinto. Developing an eResources evaluation tool at the University of Strathclyde |
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Wednesday, 19 June |
Session H: 9:30-10:30am |
Academic libraries |
Instruction |
Gender and methods |
Laura Rocco and Elise Feltman. Understanding how international students interact with library spaces, staff, and services |
Veronica Wells. Using participatory design to develop strategies for the library’s Information Literacy Program |
Hilary Bussell and Tatiana Bryant. Lived experience as evidence: Reflections on a qualitative study of gender in librarianship |
Jonathan DaSo and Jessica Barmon. Analyzing the impact of library sponsored tutoring on student success |
Britt Foster. Faculty information literacy teaching practices: A Data/Methods Triangulation Approach to investigating instruction |
Emily Kingsland. Unexpected paths: Undercover feminist pedagogy in information literacy |
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Session I: 10:45am-11:45am |
Value and impact |
Collecting users' experiences qualitatively |
E-resources and social media |
Cheryl Stenstrom and Natalie Cole. Measuring the value of California's public libraries |
Robin Bergart and Juliene McLaughlin. Can user experience research be trusted? |
Richard Hayman, Erika E. Smith and Hannah Storrs. "I’ve never felt so done with school before": Connecting information needs and behaviours from students’ Facebook Confessions |
Alyson Tyler. "Books and banter": Evidence from Scottish mobile library users of the service’s impact on their lives |
Laura Spears and Bess de Farber. Assessing Collaboration Workshops: Revealing hidden values of unsuspecting library stakeholders |
Andrew Asher, Kristin Briney, Abigail Goben, Kyle M. L. Jones, Michael Perry, Dorthea Salo and M. Brooke Robertshaw. Do students care? Student perspectives on personal data use in library learning analytics |
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Noon-1:30pm: Closing session and keynote by Donna Scheeder: "Telling the real story: Creating a global vision through data sharing" |
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Accepted Posters (* means Poster Madness Presenter)