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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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”... Read More
Social networking with a brain: a critical review of academic sites
By Kim Leeder Social networking may have started out as a way for students to keep track of their friends, but it has expanded in... Read More
Our Librarian Bodies. Our Librarian Selves.
By Emily Ford Librarians are great at taking care of their patrons. We will conduct searches for our patrons and provide them with the resources... Read More
Editorial: Getting to Know You
As a holiday break, the six of us decided to answer three questions about ourselves. We’ll have a new “real” post next week from Emily.... Read More
A Useful Amplification of Records That Are Unavoidably Needed Anyway
By Brett Bonfield Depending on books can feel like relying on snail mail. “Now that I’ve showed you how to find some articles,” I say... Read More
Swings and Roundabouts
By Hilary Davis “If where our scientists are and how they work is fundamentally changing, doesn’t that fundamentally change how we support them?” (Luce, 2008... Read More