Snooki, Whale Sperm, and Google: The Unfortunate Extinction Of Librarians When They Are Needed Most
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.” — Neil Gaiman By Margaux DelGuidice The night before I... Read More
Q&A: Lead Pipe on Professional Development
By Editorial Board This week, In the Library with Lead Pipe fields professional development and career questions from library school students at the University of North... Read More
Consensus Decision-Making and its Possibilities in Libraries
By Emily Ford Introduction Since Occupy Wall Street finally started getting mainstream media coverage, the idea of consensus decision-making seems to have permeated our American psyche.... Read More
Perspective and Doing Good Work
This post is adapted from a speech I gave at Drexel University’s Beta Phi Mu initiation on December 6, 2011. The text of the original... Read More
Editorial: Favorite Gift Books
by Editorial Board, Brett Bonfield and Erin Dorney With the holidays among us, email on a short hiatus, and a few new books on our... Read More
CSI(L) Carleton: Forensic Librarians and Reflective Practices
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome guest authors Iris Jastram, Danya Leebaw, and Heather Tompkins. They are reference and instruction... Read More
Stories of 2011: One Person’s (My) Adventures in Growing a New Academic Library
by Kim Leeder It’s official: we’ve entered the holiday season. Thanksgiving (and Black Friday) are safely behind us and the party invitations are beginning to... Read More
Editorial: Occupy Librarianship: 5 Variations on a Theme
by Kim Leeder and Editorial Board Introduction Over the past few months, several of us at Lead Pipe have been watching the Occupy Wall Street... Read More
(The Universal Interrogative Participle)* is going on with the Authors Guild?
* by Emily Ford The Authors Guild won’t give up. Their settlement agreement with Google Books was rejected by Judge Chin on March 22nd and... Read More
Is the United States Training Too Many Librarians or Too Few? (Part 1)
by Brett Bonfield For new library school graduates, or for more seasoned librarians ready for a change, entering the job market can be an intimidating,... Read More