Editorial: Announcing In the Library with the Lead Pipe’s Community Code of Conduct
by Ellie Collier and Editorial Board The Editorial Board is pleased to announce In the Library with the Lead Pipe’s adoption of a Code of... Read More
Open Source Outline: Locating the Library within Institutional Oppression
In Brief: A call for articles based on an open source outline by Ellie Collier and Editorial Board On January 20th, 2014 nina de jesus... Read More
Making a New Table: Intersectional Librarianship
In Brief: When librarians discuss the lack of underrepresented populations in librarianship, the solutions suggested most often are recruitment and awareness. But these discussions focus... Read More
Exploring Critical and Indigenous Research Methods with a Research Community: Part I – The Leap
In Brief: Librarians create collections of works grounded in many western academic forms of research and they conduct research using many of these qualitative and... Read More
Ice Ice Baby: Are Librarian Stereotypes Freezing Us out of Instruction?
In Brief: Why do librarians struggle so much with instruction? Part of the problem is that we have so many facets to consider: pedagogy, campus culture,... Read More
Who are you empowering?
In brief: As librarians we continue to grapple with our role in a world of digital information. The case has been made for an enthusiastic... Read More
How Well Are You Doing Your Job? You Don’t Know. No One Does.
In Brief: The outputs librarians are measuring are not directly associated with specific practices that lead to improved lives for the people we serve. If... Read More
Librarian, Heal Thyself: A Scholarly Communication Analysis of LIS Journals
In Brief This article presents an analysis of 111 Library and Information Science journals based on measurements of “openness” including copyright policies, open access self-archiving... Read More
Working at Learning: Developing an Integrated Approach to Student Staff Development
In Brief: In recent years, student staff have become essential to the success of library operations, particularly within higher education. Student library employment offers a... Read More
Books Behind Bars: A Volunteer-run Prison Library Service in Winnipeg, Manitoba
In Brief: Beginning the summer of 2012, a group Canadian librarians in Winnipeg came together to discuss the lack of library services in the prison system... Read More