Editorial: Introductions All Around
In Brief: Over the past year, the Editorial Board has experienced some changes (yay, growing pains!). In this group post, current board members introduce themselves... Read More
Say what? Exploring “The most interesting place in the city” – the comments section of online news articles
In Brief Online commenting culture can be intriguing. Do people comment on news articles about libraries? What do they say? These are the questions that... Read More
The intersection between cultural competence and whiteness in libraries
In brief The context for this article is Australian libraries and my experience there with cross-cultural provision. However, this article is not about providing library... Read More
Renovation as a Catalyst for Change
Throwback Thursday for November 18, 2015: Take a look at Renovation as a Catalyst for Change by Erin Dorney and Eric Frierson. We may be... Read More
Gendered Expectations for Leadership in Libraries
In Brief Despite significant gains in representation at the administration level, there is still a disparity between the percentage of women in our profession and... Read More
A Critical Take on OER Practices: Interrogating Commercialization, Colonialism, and Content
Photo by Flickr user arbyreed (CC BY NC 2.0) In Brief Both Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) are becoming more central to... Read More
White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS
In Brief: Whiteness—an ideological practice that can extend beyond notions of racial supremacy to other areas of dominance—has permeated every aspect of librarianship, extending even... Read More
Editorial: Summer Reading 2015
Photo by Flickr user Moyan_Brenn of Moyan Brenn Photography (CC BY 2.0) Editors from In The Library With The Lead Pipe are taking a break... Read More
Unpacking and overcoming “edutainment” in library instruction
Photo by Flickr user Jen Kim (CC BY 4.0) In Brief Within our field, and more widely, there is a way of thinking that equates effective teaching with... Read More
Archives Alive!: librarian-faculty collaboration and an alternative to the five-page paper
In brief: The short research paper is ubiquitous in undergraduate liberal arts education. But is this assignment type an effective way to assess student learning... Read More