“…I would like to see it be an expectation as long as there are ways that it can be worked into peoples' work lives […] I guess for multiple reasons because, you know, it helps you understand what your patrons are struggling with […] This positive attitude towards research and publication has often, but not always, been expressed in the LIS literature (Isaac, 1983). Research publication and presentation has been described in the LIS literature as beneficial to personal professional practice (McCluskey, 2013;Montanelli and Stenstrom, 1986;Powell et al, 2002;White, 2001), the practitioner's institution (Montanelli and Stenstrom, 1986), and the field of librarianship as a whole (Goode, 1961;Haddow and Klobas, 2004;Jackson, 1999). The Vet Participants' generally benevolent attitude towards research contrasted with the ambivalent attitudes of the New Participants.…”