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State of the Pipe
In Brief: In the Library with the Lead Pipe announces two new milestones and a call for feedback. by Editorial Board As In the Library with the Lead Pipe continues to grow, we sometimes take a pause from our regular articles to share milestones and solicit reader input. We’d like to share two milestones: In... Read More
2014
26
Feb
Me and You and Everything We Know: Information Behavior in Library Workplaces
In Brief As librarians, we claim to uphold the principles of open access, equitable and unbiased service, intellectual freedom, and lifelong learning. How can we better integrate these principles into our workplaces? This article is an exploration of information behaviors and structures in library workplaces, particularly the behaviors of withholding and sharing information, and the... Read More
2014
12
Feb
Librarian as Poet / Poet as Librarian
In brief: Through interviews with three poets who also work in libraries, this article explores the benefits and challenges of these overlapping roles, reflecting on commonalities in the two communities. by Erin Dorney Introduction I am a librarian and a poet who has tried to keep those two roles separate. As a library school student... Read More
In Brief: This article is an interview with Jake Smith, a PhD student at the University of Chicago who spent over a year in Germany conducting his dissertation research in archives. Many of the archives he visited in support of his project, “Häuserkämpfe: Squatting, Urban Renewal, and the Crisis of Dwelling in West Germany, 1970-1995,”... Read More
2014
15
Jan
Editorial: Our Favorite Articles from 2013
by Editorial Board, Ellie Collier, Brett Bonfield and Hugh Rundle To kick off 2014, we’re looking back at 2013. In the Library with the Lead Pipe’s editors have chosen a few non-Lead Pipe articles, essays, speeches, or posts that we love from last year. Some of us chose pieces that were published in LIS journals... Read More
2013
18
Dec
Giving Games the Old College Try
In Brief: Based on evidence that games might help students get more engaged in my online class, I decided to overcome my skepticism and road-test two information literacy games. First I tried BiblioBouts, which uses the online citation management tool Zotero to integrate gaming into a research paper assignment that is already part of the course... Read More
2013
4
Dec
Charles A. Cutter and Edward Tufte: Coming to a Library Near You, via BIBFRAME
In Brief The library catalog as it exists today is a century-old tool that presents an array of challenges for its users. The manner in which users search for information has not changed since the inception of the paper catalog and its different indices. The electronic records that comprise library catalogs are in a format... Read More
In Brief: Joseph Schumpeter defines creative destruction as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” As libraries struggle with how to position themselves to thrive in the digital age, how can we balance the traditional elements of librarianship like... Read More
2013
6
Nov
New literacies, learning, and libraries: How can frameworks from other fields help us think about the issues?
In Brief: In the library world, we may look to other fields to help us make sense of new digital literacies. Their frameworks may offer us new perspectives, challenge our assumptions, or give us greater clarity on the issues. Transliteracy is one non-library-centric framework that has been promoted for this purpose. It has also been... Read More
In Brief by Hugh Rundle The early founders of free public libraries intended them to achieve particular outcomes: a place for working people to access the wisdom of the classics, to socialise and to become more informed and educated citizens and avoid spending their time idling, lonely or drunk. There is, however, little incentive for... Read More