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The Research in Librarianship – Impact Evaluation Project (RiLIES – pronounced "realise") is a study supported by the LIS Research Coalition. It explores the extent to which funded librarianship research projects influence library practice in the UK.

Of particular interest are the factors that increase or hinder the impact of project outcomes on practice. Currently little is known of the impact of particular research projects on the day to day work carried out by librarians. This makes it difficult to assess an important aspect of research undertaken. Equally, although it is possible to cite reasons why a particular project may have a greater influence than another – such as the means by which it is conceived and implemented, how output is disseminated, what is disseminated, the profile of the research team or the target audience – knowledge of the relative value of these factors is low.

The project is due to report in later in 2011.

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DREaM Project launch conference, Tuesday 19th July, British Library Conference Centre, London

Members of the RiLIES project team will be at the DREaM project launch conference later this month, and Hazel Hall will be speaking about RiLIES in her opening presentation.

The Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project (which is funded by the AHRC, supported by the LIS Research Coalition and based at Edinburgh Napier University) aims to develop a formal UK-wide network of Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers. There are still places available for project's launch conference on Tuesday 19th July at the British Library Conference Centre. For further details please see the conference web pages.

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