The Ebook Cargo Cult
By Brett Bonfield Libraries created the present crisis in scholarly publishing, and we are creating a similar crisis now with our approach to ebooks. We... Read More
What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library?
tl;dr – Libraries and digital humanities have the same goals. Stop asking if the library has a role, or what it is, and start getting... Read More
An Interview with Paul Ford and Gina Trapani
By Brett Bonfield Gina Trapani and Paul Ford are programmers, interface designers, authors, editors, and broadcasters. They are consistently involved in the kinds of projects that... Read More
Stop the Snobbery! Why You’re Wrong About Community Colleges and Don’t Even Know It
By Kim Leeder Several weeks ago I attended my first community college commencement. Despite my staff status, I was pleased to be invited to sit among... Read More
What We Talk About When We Talk About Brangelina
By Anne Helen Petersen Picture the person who comes into the library and heads straight for the magazines. She beelines for People, maybe spends some time... Read More
Zen and the Art of Constructive Criticism
By Erin Dorney Introduction If there were a single piece of advice I have for new professionals entering the field of librarianship, it would be to... Read More
In the Library with the Lead Pipe Reader Poll
This poll is no longer being monitored, but we left it available in order to make the results article make sense. We’d still like to... Read More
Answering questions about library impact on student learning
Photo by Flickr user WordShore (CC BY-NC 2.0) By Derek Rodriguez This essay reports on a project which evaluated the Understanding Library Impacts (ULI) protocol, a suite... Read More
Out of the Library and Into the Wild
By Lana Mariko Wood Librarians and library school students have a lot to gain by sharing their skills with groups outside of the library, such as... Read More
From the Frying Pan Into the Fire (and Back Again): Adventures in Subject-Based, Credit Instruction
By Natalie Tagge My best experience as a teacher-librarian was leading a credit, semester-long course while a librarian at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS)... Read More