Archive for July, 2017
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Editorial: Recent Reads
July 26, 2017 | No commentsTags: editorialIt’s summer in the northern hemisphere, and your editors at In the Library with the Lead Pipe are busy keeping up with the influx of patrons, with improving our instruction programs, and with other joys of summer. As always, we’re also thinking of ways librarians can improve our profession. Here’s a few recent articles that we’ve…
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Following the Yik Yak: Using Social Media Observations to Understand Student Needs on College Campuses
July 12, 2017 | 3 commentsIn Brief: What can social media tell us about our patrons? We look at Yik Yak through the lens of library ethnography, suggesting that anonymous social media can reveal not only complaints and commentary about library services and spaces, but also uncover students’ emotional and social experience with research and study space. Looking at social…