Articles, Evaluations and Reports

A: Evidence-based museums, archives and libraries work

A5: Re:source and E-B working

Re:source has a dual role in encouraging the MAL sector to address EBPP and in adopting in-house EBPP approaches. In its broader sectoral role, Re:source needs to decide:

• Whether evidence-based policy and practice should be seriously pursued within the sector.
   
• If so, is the Re:source role central or should other bodies within the sector be encouraged to take the lead?
   
• Assuming a key role for Re:source, what part, if any, should Re:source play in
   
  • identifying the nature of evidence ... moving beyond simple hierarchies of evidence (section 3.1)
     
  • encouraging a strategic approach to knowledge creation (3.2)
     
  • ensuring effective dissemination (3.3) and other sector specific dissemination issues (4.1)
     
  • ensuring wide access to research (3.3)
     
  • increasing the uptake of evidence (3.4)
     
  • promoting disciplined reporting of research (4.2)
     
  • encouraging an EBPP climate (4.3)
     
  • introducing an appropriate structure and mechanisms (4.4)
     
  • securing effective professional development for EBPP (4.5)?
     

Whatever answers to these questions are arrived at it should be a key concern of Re:source to ensure that an effective and continuing professional debate takes place on the nature and basis of MAL professional knowledge and practice.

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