Tuesday July 29th saw the Library and Information Group's (LIRG ) AGM and annual address, held in London. As well as the usual AGM business, including the awarding of our annual prizes - the Research Award and the student prize for best dissertation - we had a presentation from last year's Research Award winner, Jackie Chelin (and ...

LIRG is looking for two new Committee members. We are especiallyinterested in people with a public library background but experience inany domain(s) within LIS would be relevant. Serving on the Committee involves attending up to three meetings peryear and contributing through those meetings (and possibly through otherlinked events like seminars) ...

Tuesday July 29th: The Council Room, Strand Campus, King’s College LondonThis seminar is an exploration of some of the major assumptions shaping practice in academic library and information services based on the Environmental Scan published by the Association of College and Research Libraries research committee in 2008. See: ...

  The document that informs LIRG's activities is CILIP's policy on research, which LIRG drafted: http://www.cilip.org.uk/professionalguidance/research/researchstrategy.htm Within the context of this document, what do members like to see LIRG doing? Alan Poulter LIRG Secretary

Hello all. We hope that this blog will be shaped by our readers as much as by ourselves. We'll be posting details of research events, grants, publications- as you'd expect! We also hope to spark debate about the role of research in practice, as well as contribute to an emerging research community. We look forward to your comments. Please pass ...