Lynne Brindley and Library and Information Science Research

Lynne Brindley developed and maintained a deep appreciation for the value of research and of the need for an evidence-base for decision-making. This article tracks Brindley's career and shows that she put the use of research and innovation at the heart of her approach to responding to rapid technological and social change in the library context. The authors conclude that she is arguably the key figure in developing the policies and programmes in Britain that led the transformation from automated but essentially paper-based research libraries as they still were in the 1980s to the networked digital information landscape we know today.