EBLIP8: a delegate's perspective.

In early July 2015 I headed to sunny Queensland with assistance from the Pat Nakouz Award from Health Libraries Inc. to attend the 8th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP8). The EBLIP conference is a biennial event that aims to promote the use of the best available evidence in practices and processes particular to the library and information profession. Everything at the conference centred on 'evidence'. EBLIP define evidence as something that may include a diverse range of legitimate sources that librarians use in their decision‐making processes, including quantitative and qualitative research, publications, locally collected statistics, open‐access data and 'soft' sources, such as accumulated knowledge, opinion, instinct and relationships. For me, the most interesting papers were those that centred on the health field and those with a direct link to the daily work we undertake.