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# An evidence base?
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/an-evidence-base/
- Published: 2007-09-04T01:21:45.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:31:58.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions

In all the discussion about bibliographic data and catalogs, and about their advantages or disadvantages when compared to other approaches, it is striking how little appeal there is to actual evidence. Evidence about value. Evidence about cost.