Research and Writing

Tell Me Your Story: Narrative Inquiry in LIS Research

“…Conversations in our association and among the C&RL editorial board have included questions of how the publication can support research skills development. 3 A turning point of this conversation occurred in 2016, when Emily Drabinski and Walter pleaded with the C&RL readership to complement research on the value of libraries with research based in library values. Offering a brief history of our community debates about research, what type is valid, what methods to use, they concluded, "Methods give librarians the tools with which to answer research questions central both to curiosity and to daily practice, and having an ample toolbox with which to do that work is important.…”