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While personal information is often thought of as only the documents, emails, and other pieces of information that people receive or retain for some potential, immediate, or future need, William Jones, in his Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008), expands the field to include information about "me" or owned by "me." As our online identities, information about us online, expand, how can we manage that information to put our best face (identity) forward?

2009–02–11

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It’s the Collections that are Special

In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest author, Lisa Carter! Lisa has just recently been appointed as Visiting Program...

2009–02–04

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My (Our) Abusive Relationship with Google and What We Can Do About It

By Emily Ford Since October something has been weighing on my professional mind: my abusive relationship with Google. I love Google, I don’t ever want...

2009–01–28

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Narrating the “Back Story” Through E-learning Resources in Libraries

We at In the Library with the Lead Pipe are happy to welcome two guest authors to our blog! Hyun-Duck Chung and Kim Duckett are...

2009–01–21

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A Librarian’s Guide to 332.024

By Brett Bonfield I want you to think rationally about money. That’s my goal for this article. After you read it, I want you to...

2009–01–14

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A Look at Recessions and their Impact on Librarianship

Image courtesy of Flickr user RayBanBro66 By Hilary Davis Given the constant flood of reports comparing our current economic recession with past major recession events including...

2009–01–07

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In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills

By Ellie Collier My alternate title for this post was “The Internet is awesome. Start acting like it.” It is a call to arms to shift...

2008–12–24

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Editorial: Getting to Know You… even better

By Editorial Board, Brett Bonfield and Ellie Collier Happy holidays from In the Library With the Lead Pipe! We had so much fun putting together...

2008–12–17

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Presentation = Speech + Slides

By Derik Badman Back in October, Aaron Schmidt posted “HOWTO give a good presentation” to his blog walking paper. His second bullet point of “thoughts”...