Archive for December, 2010
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Editorial: The Leaky Pipe: Lead Pipers Weigh in on WikiLeaks
December 29, 2010 | 1 commentby Editorial Board Introduction Let’s start off with a little background and context, just in case you haven’t been glued to the news to catch every nuance of the WikiLeaks story. The Guardian has a helpful timeline of the saga to get you (at least partially) up to speed, and if you don’t like…
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Take the Template and Run: Austin Community College’s Student Library and Technology Use Study
December 15, 2010 | Comments Off on Take the Template and Run: Austin Community College’s Student Library and Technology Use StudyIn the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes guest author Adrian Whatley. Adrian Whatley is the e-Resources Librarian at Austin Community College. She views her job as connecting students to the information they need in the easiest, most time-efficient manner possible. by Adrian Whatley and Ellie Collier Part One: Setting the Stage Austin Community College…
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Welcoming the Homeless into Libraries
December 1, 2010 | 17 commentsTags: charity, collaboration, equal access, holidays, homelessness, policy 61, poor people's policy, povertyPhoto by Flickr user Alex Barth (CC BY 2.0) by Kim Leeder I hope those reading this post had a warm, happy Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. I spent most of last week in Florida at my parents’ “snowbird” house with my immediate family, all of us having traveled at least 1,200 miles to…