Dr Bruce Ryan's Projects (4)

Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians Feb 1, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026
It is claimed that ‘Libraries have always had a role as trusted institutions’ (Royal Society, 2022). However, librarians’ solutions to misinformation may be untested (Sullivan, 2019). Further, school librarians may be seen as ‘book-pushers’, not invo... Read More about Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians.

Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review Feb 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2023
This project sought to bring out how people learn to understand why and how they need information, and how they gather, process and use information, by reviewing research from 2005 to the present. The word ‘information’ was taken to mean not only wri... Read More about Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review.

Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats Feb 2, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
This project was closely tied to two goals of the AHRC/Creative Informatics call: unlocking value from digitised heritage content, and online performance.
In respect of ‘unlocking value from digitised heritage’, the practical aspect of the research... Read More about Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats.

Research Impact and Value in Library and Information Science (RIVAL) Network Feb 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2021
This project developed a formal Scotland-wide network of LIS researchers and practitioners, to help spread expertise into a connected practitioner community across all LIS sectors through high quality training and opportunities for knowledge exchange... Read More about Research Impact and Value in Library and Information Science (RIVAL) Network.