Institute for Research Design in Librarianship - IRDL

03/17/2025

Really looking forward to next week's session of the 2025 IRDL Scholars' Speaker Series, with Annemaree Lloyd presenting: Information Literacy as Social Practice: A Theoretical and Methodological Discussion. The format is a 60-minute presentation with time for Q&A, then a 30-minute guided discussion about how we might apply what we learn from Annemaree in our daily work and research in a library/archives setting. Free to attend, please register at

The IRDL Scholars Speaker Series is designed to shine a spotlight on voices and ideas that challenge traditional ways of conducting research. It surveys various topics, including specific research methods and critiques of processes associated with western social science approaches, with the intentio...

02/17/2025

The second session of the 2025 Scholars' Speaker Series is next Monday. Moderated by IRDL Scholars Claire Nickerson and Ashley Wilson, Sara Goldrick-Rab will be presenting, "Learning from Students: How Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Research Can Change What We “Know”." Register to attend (free) at

The IRDL Scholars Speaker Series is designed to shine a spotlight on voices and ideas that challenge traditional ways of conducting research. It surveys various topics, including specific research methods and critiques of processes associated with western social science approaches, with the intentio...

01/30/2025

The first session of the 2025 Scholars' Speaker Series is next week. Alex Hanna will be presenting, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want." Register to attend (free) at https://library.lmu.edu/irdl/events/speakerseries/

10/21/2024

Registration is open now, to join us on November 18 and 19 for the IRDL Online Research Conference. It's free to attend and will be held on Zoom. It's a live event, we're not recording any sessions. Hope to see you there!

The IRDL Online Research Conference will showcase some of the most creative thinking in research methods geared for the 21st-century librarian. The conference is the first research methods-focused conference of its kind in the United States and will offer a friendly and inclusive environment to incr...

07/03/2024

We welcome your proposals for brief Seven-Minute Scholarship and Research Tools Petting Zoo presentations at our upcoming IRDL Online Research Conference (Nov 18-19, 2024). The call for proposals is at https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/irdlconference/cfp.html. We welcome applications through the end of July.

​​IRDL invites you to share your personal experience and unique approach to library research design with fellow librarians by submitting a proposal for this year’s Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Online Research Conference: Building Skills and Community with Librarian-Researcher...

03/18/2024

"From a programmatic point of view, this reflective research has affirmed our decision to design IRDL around the concept of self-efficacy (mastery of the skill of conducting research, modeling of the research process, encouragement/support throughout the research process, and the feelings that come with conducting research {the positive and the negative!}) so that at the end of the year-long program, the participants know for themselves what they need in order to confidently conduct research and can seek it out."

When our second grant for the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) was ending in 2019, we wanted to take the opportunity to look back on the program, through the eyes of the 124 participants who had been through the program. The grant funding had been given to us to devise a model f...

01/18/2024

The Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL), with our partner SCELC, invites you to join us for a free, online workshop by Data Carpentry, February 7-9, 2024. The social science workshop "teaches data management and analysis for social science research including best practices for data organization in spreadsheets, reproducible data cleaning with OpenRefine, and data analysis and visualization in R."

Course content and registration links for the three-day workshop (join us for one, two, or all three days) is available at

To further facilitate hands-on learning in an online environment, IRDL Online is hosting a 3-day workshop by The Carpentries. Taught via Zoom, by instructors in Data Carpentry, the social sciences workshop "teaches data management and analysis for social science research including best practices for...

12/01/2023

It's cold outside! Stay warm inside while you work on your IRDL proposal. The application center is now open, through Jan. 26, 2024. Get started at https://library.lmu.edu/irdl/apply/

11/14/2023

The application center for 2024 IRDL will open on December 1, 2023. Sign up for an application information webinar at https://library.lmu.edu/irdl/.

04/11/2023

We are pleased to welcome the 2023 cohort of IRDL Scholars:

Announcing the 2023 cohort of IRDL Scholars. This year, the William H. Hannon Library will virtually welcome 28 scholars from 17 states.

03/27/2023

Please join this discussion, organized and led by Scholars: Navigating Research Incentives: IRB, Institutional Support, and Funds, on April 10, 10-11am PT. Registration at https://bit.ly/3zbSWYg . More info at https://library.lmu.edu/irdl/events/occasionalseries/

02/23/2023

Tomorrow (11-12:30 PST)! "Weaving as Research: Indigenous Qualitative Methodologies," presented by Amanda Tachine. Register: https://lmula.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6cdwMOmeRNuRpvCrYRofbw