James Truitt (he/him)Restraining myself from ending my portfolio section on doing lit reviews by saying "Okay, but forget that, as a practicing professional you need to read blogs and talk to people"
"Sometimes you don't have access to the LIS literature, or time to pick out the duds and synthesize the rest, and in those times 'what are other people doing' is often a good shortcut"
Tempted to wrap up this whole section on research with "Without survey research, we never would have gotten the MPLP paper, and archivists might still be physically processing at the item or folder level today"