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09/07/2012 British Library, London
DREaM 5, the DREaM project concluding conference, took place at the British Library Conference Centre on Monday 9th July 2012. Highlights included Dr Ben Goldacre as the closing keynote speaker, presentation of the LIS Practitioner Researcher Excellence Award, invited presentations, an open panel session, One Minute Madness, and a networking drinks reception.
The conference celebrated the outcomes of the DREaM project:
The conference celebrated the outcomes of the DREaM project:
- a network of Library and Information Science researchers and practitioners;
- skills development through the three methodologies workshops;
- ways and contacts to increase the impact of LIS research.
Professor Hazel Hall outlined the objectives and achievements of the DREaM project, including future plans.
Professor Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee, took us through ways to building evidence of the value and impact of library and information services, in her opening keynote.
Twenty attendees took on the one minute madness challenge -presenting current projects in a minute. For many, this was the highlight of the day.
Dr Louise Cooke, from Loughborough University, delivered an invited paper based on social network analysis undertaken throughout the project: “Facets of DREaM: An analysis of network development to support UK LIS research and researchers.”
A panel session looked in more detail at the future of the DREaM network.
Dr Ben Goldacre presented the Library and Information Science Practitioner Researcher Excellence Award to the North West Clinical Librarian Systematic Review and Evaluation Group.
Goldacre then presented the final keynote, which explored problems with recording experiments in medical science and suggested some solutions: results recorded in structured data table would improve transparency, accountability and re-use, compared to results presented in essay form (for example in journal papers) which enabled experimenters to pick and choose from their results, able to omit their initial primary objectives, as long as their references were well-formatted.
The conference closed with a drinks reception and prize draw.
Associated people
Research Student (previously Senior Research Fellow)
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This AHRC-funded project develops a formal UK-wide network of Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers. A key goal of the project is to build capacity and capability in the development and implementation of innovative methods and techniques in undertaking LIS research.
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