ABSTRACT
This chapter explores on skills for evidence based practice in general, but this is illustrated with examples taken from evidence based library and information practice. Reference is frequently made within evidence based practice to the Confucian saying. A librarian who was heavily involved in development of the paradigm defines evidence based practice as an approach to health care that promotes the collection, interpretation and integration of valid, important and applicable patient-reported, clinician-observed and research-derived evidence. Concern within the evidence based practice community about the use of the phrase as a flag of convenience, under which many poor quality enterprises might sail, led to production of the so-called Sicily Statement to which this author contributed. A corresponding challenge is thus for EBLIP to provides remedial education for generations of practitioners who have received little or no formal training in interpreting or using research.
