Editorial March 2023

Abstract

) paper, A proposed path to bridge the gap between Information Behaviour Research and Professional Practice is a piece aiming to fi ll the gap between information research and professional practice, with information behaviour (IB) as a focus of the research area. It presents discussions about how professionals and practitioners can leverage information behaviour research fi ndings to guide service design and delivery. The paper pro-poses a path to bridge the gap between IB research and professional practice in these inter-actions between scholarly knowledge and the knowledges of professional practices, between researchers, teachers in LIS programs of professional education and information professionals. The paper implores academics, educators, and professionals to take these into con-sideration and work more closely to reduce the gap between information behaviour research and professional practice.