Teen Tech Week: Create, Share, Learn @ Your Library
by Robyn Vittek Have you ever noticed how many special events there are in library-land? National Library Week, Read across America Day, Teen Read Week,... Read More
Critical Literacy? Information!
Throwback Thursday for February 12, 2015: Take another look at Heather Davis’s article on the ACRL Standards from 2010. Stop back on February 25th for a critical information literacy... Read More
What water?
by Sara Seely Recently I was lucky enough to come across the publication of a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace in 2005 to... Read More
Vision and Visionaries: A Whole Bunch of Questions to Start off 2010 (As if you didn’t have enough of those already)
by Kim Leeder During the last few frenzied weeks of the academic semester last month I came across an article I reviewed quickly and put... Read More
Editorial: All I want for 2010
All I want for 2010: Brief notes about practical or totally pie-in-the-sky ideas for things we’d like to see happen in our libraries, in libraries... Read More
How Do You Say No?
By Emily Ford Have you ever found yourself thinking: “I know I said yes to this, but now I wish I’d said no. That’s what I... Read More
So you want to write about libraries?
By Brett Bonfield In the Library with the Lead Pipe is a little over a year old now. We published our first article on October 8,... Read More
Not Just Another Pretty Picture
Not just another pretty picture By Hilary Davis Introduction I’m a slave to spreadsheets. Trying to decide between a stacked column bar chart and a 3-D... Read More
[RE]Boot Camp: Share Some. Learn More. Teach Better.
By Ellie Collier Setting the Stage Last fall, as a part of the Texas Library Association’s “Transforming” initiative, my library held its own transforming retreat. Austin... Read More
Learning to teach through video
By Kim Leeder It’s a truth so many of us keep in the dark corners of our lives as instruction librarians: we were never taught to... Read More