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
New Grads, Meet New Metrics: Why Early Career Librarians Should Care About Altmetrics & Research Impact
In Brief How do academic librarians measure their impact on the field of LIS, particularly in light of eventual career goals related to reappointment, promotion,... Read More
Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship
In Brief: After presenting together at ACRL 2015 to share research we conducted on race, identity, and diversity in academic librarianship, we reconvene panelists Ione... Read More
Revising Academic Library Governance Handbooks
Original Image by Flickr user Sasquatch 1 (CC BY 2.0), with minimal modification by C. Strunk (10 June 2015). In Brief Regardless of our status... Read More
Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness and Librarianship
Image by Flickr user tweng (CC BY-SA 2.0) In Brief: Despite the growing body of research on our professional demographics and multi-year diversity initiatives, librarianship... Read More