When I applied to study at QUT at the beginning of 2013 I initially wanted to study my Masters in Education to become a teacher-librarian. I hadn’t met many teacher-librarians before, save for the ones I encountered in primary school and high school. At the last-minute I decided to change to the Masters in IT and I don’t regret that decision, but I am still interested to find out more about teacher-librarianship. The workshop for this week featured a guest speaker, Anne Gillespie, spoke to us about her work as a teacher-librarian and PhD in evidence-based practice.
I found much of her talk useful and informative, particularly in explaining the benefits and strategies she used to incorporate evidence-based practice in her work environment. Much of her work incorporated reflective practice and her Reflect Plan Act cycle helped to illustrate how evidence-based practice can be conducted. I liked that goal-setting, benchmarking, influence building, and reflection all contribute to improving professional practice.
In the second hour of the workshop, Helen expanded on evidence-based practice and discussed whether or not librarianship is a profession. In terms of EBP, the most interesting thought of the workshop for me, was the story of the blind men and the elephant. At the end of the day, there is no wrong or right way to conduct EBP, every individual will have a different experience and different opinion. I really connect with this idea, mainly because there is a qualitative aspect to it and somehow knowing that the experiences of the librarians have been lived provides more validity than ‘hard’ facts.
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