Tryin’ to Get My Mojo Workin’
Muddy Waters, can you help me get my mojo working? by Emily Ford I have a problem. Several months ago I realized I’d lost my... Read More
The Fiske Report
by Ellie Collier Introduction I have a soft spot in my heart for library history. I credit my library history classes for making me the... Read More
My Maverick Bar: A Search for Identity and the “Real Work” of Librarianship
by Kim Leeder Summer Interlude Three years, twenty committees, twelve hundred instruction sessions, forty thousand monograph purchases, and half a million reference questions later, I’m... Read More
Fantasy Pricing – An Interview with Selden Lamoureux
by Selden Lamoureux and Hilary Davis When I asked Selden Lamoureux, Electronic Serials Librarian at the North Carolina State University Libraries, “what are the most... Read More
What your donors (and would-be donors) wish you knew
by Brett Bonfield A few months back, someone emailed In the Library with the Lead Pipe asking if we could recommend an online course that... Read More
Editorial: Conference this! Lead Pipers compare conference experiences
As library travel budgets are increasingly slashed around the country, it’s a tough time for conference-going. In this group post, we compare notes about the... Read More
Making Connections: YAAN as a Paper Blog?
by Cindy Welch Brooke Shields is a descendant of Louis XIV; Emmett Smith is seven percent Native American; and Matthew Broderick’s ancestor fought at Gettysburg.... Read More
Making it their idea: The Learning Cycle in library instruction
by Eric Frierson Librarians are always struggling to convince someone of something: convincing voters to say ‘yes’ to a library bond; persuading a library director... Read More
Déformation Professionnelle
by Hilary Davis Déformation professionnelle is a French phrase, meaning a tendency to look at things from the point of view of one’s own profession... Read More
The Importance of Thinking about Thinking
by Ellie Collier A review of How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer I play Magic. It’s a fairly complicated card game which calls on many of... Read More