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Throwback Thursday for January 28, 2016: Exploring ways to serve commuter students better?! Grab a cup of coffee or tea and get comfy because Mariana Regalado and Maura Smale’s article from last spring is a great read! In Brief: While commuter students may use their college or university libraries, student centers, or other campus locations...

In Brief: Announcing an update to In the Library with the Lead Pipe’s publication strategy. By Editorial Board, Erin Dorney, Lindsey Rae, Brett Bonfield, Ellie Collier, and Hugh Rundle In the Library With the Lead Pipe began in the fall of 2008 with lofty publication goals. Six librarians launched the site as a peer-reviewed blog, with plans to publish an article...

Throwback Thursday for June 18, 2015: In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes Bethany Messersmith to our Editorial Board! In honor of Throwback Thursday, we’re highlighting Bethany’s recent piece on curriculum and assessment mapping. In Brief: The greatest challenge that I faced in my role as Information Literacy Librarian occurred as a result...

In Brief: Open access to scholarly research benefits not only the academic world but also the general public. Questions have been raised about the popularity of academic materials for nonacademic readers. However, when scholarly materials are available, they are also available to popularizers who can recontextualize them in unexpected and more accessible ways. Randall...

In Brief: the Journal of Radical Librarianship is a new open-access journal publishing scholarly work in the field of radical librarianship. The focus on critical approaches to librarianship and anti-marketisation of information is reflected not only in our subject matter but in our publishing model, our licensing model, and our organisational practices. We hope to...

Survey rating scale: In Brief: Recent content analyses of LIS literature show that, by far, the most popular data collection method employed by librarians and library researchers is the survey. The authors of this article, all participants in the 2014 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, recognize that there are sound reasons for using a...

Throwback Thursday for July 16, 2015: In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes Ian Beilin to our Editorial Board! In honor of Throwback Thursday, we’re highlighting Ian’s recent piece on the ACRL Framework. In Brief: The recently adopted ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education has generated much critique and discussion, including...

In brief: Ellie Collier interviews several librarian-editors about the publishing process, with a focus on “call for chapters” style books. By Ellie Collier Introduction: I began working on In the Library with the Lead Pipe in 2008 as a founding editor and author, despite hating to write. The prospect seemed too exciting to let my own dislike...

In Brief: At Temple University Libraries (TUL), librarian Fred Rowland began conducting interviews and sharing them as streaming audio through TUL’s website in 2007. The following interview transcript with digital humanities scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick offers insight into her work and a discussion about the future of scholarly communication. An introduction has been added to the...

In our last editorial of the year, the In the Library with the Lead Pipe Editorial Board is looking back at 2014. As we did in early January, we’re sharing some of our favorite non-Lead Pipe articles, essays, speeches, or posts from the previous twelve months. By Editorial Board, Brett Bonfield, Cecily Walker, Ellie Collier,...

“I’m Just Really Comfortable:” Learning at Home, Learning in Libraries

Editorial: As the World Turns So Do We: A New Publication Strategy

Adopting the Educator’s Mindset: Charting New Paths in Curriculum and Assessment Mapping

Randall Munroe’s What If as a Test Case for Open Access in Popular Culture

A radical publishing collective: the Journal of Radical Librarianship

#DitchTheSurvey: Expanding Methodological Diversity in LIS Research

Beyond the Threshold: Conformity, Resistance, and the ACRL Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education

A Conversation with Librarian-Editors

On Scholarly Communication and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Editorial: These Are A Few Of Our Favorite Things