| The public library, exclusion and empathy: a literature review B Birdi, K Wilson, J Cocker Library Review 57 (8), 576-592, 2008 | 73 | 2008 |
| Research and practice: a critical reflection on approaches that underpin research into people's information behaviour M Hepworth, P Grunewald, G Walton Journal of Documentation 70 (6), 1039-1053, 2014 | 47* | 2014 |
| The concept of neutrality: a new approach S Macdonald, B Birdi Journal of Documentation 76 (1), 333-353, 2020 | 42 | 2020 |
| The right ‘man’for the job? The role of empathy in community librarianship K Wilson, B Birdi Final Project Report. University of Sheffield, 202006-8, 2008 | 32 | 2008 |
| ‘What we should strive for is Britishness’: An attitudinal investigation of ethnic diversity and the public library B Birdi, K Wilson, S Mansoor Journal of librarianship and information science 44 (2), 118-128, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| The nature and role of empathy in public librarianship B Birdi, K Wilson, HM Tso Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 41 (2), 81-89, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| The role of information in the migration experience of young Polish women in the UK M Benson Marshall, A Cox, B Birdi Journal of Documentation 76 (4), 849-868, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Exploring reader response to minority ethnic fiction B Birdi, M Syed Library review 60 (9), 816-831, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Investigating fiction reader characteristics using personal construct theory B Birdi Aslib proceedings 63 (2/3), 275-294, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Reader development B Birdi Facet Publishing, 2003 | 17 | 2003 |
| Interlending and resource sharing in UK public libraries: A mixed methods study S Wakeling, S Rutter, B Birdi, S Pinfield Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 50 (2), 168-185, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Towards a new sociological model of fiction reading B Birdi, N Ford Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 69 (11 …, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| " It’s woefully inadequate”: Collections of LGBTQ* fiction for teens in English public library services E Chapman, B Birdi Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults 7 (1), 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Investigating the public response to local government decisions to reduce or remove public library services D McCahill, B Birdi, RB Jones Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 52 (1), 40-53, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| The contribution of Library and Information Science education to decolonising B Birdi Narrative Expansions: Interpreting decolonisation in academic libraries, 116-129, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Eliminating racism in education for knowledge organization and library and information science: An intercontinental position statement B Birdi, A Dunbar, J Furner, F Ibekwe Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services and …, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Fiction for all E Chapman, B Birdi Public Library Journal 23 (1), 8-11, 2008 | 5 | 2008 |
| The changing shape of reading-the 21st-century challenge B Birdi, C Rankin, A Brock Library services for children and young people: challenges and opportunities …, 2012 | 4 | 2012 |
| 'We are here because you were there': an investigation of the reading of, and engagement with, minority ethnic fiction in UK public libraries B Birdi University of Sheffield, 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
| Public libraries and social inclusion: how empathic are we? B Birdi, K Wilson Library and Information Update 7 (6), 32-34, 2008 | 3 | 2008 |
