2011
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Editorial: Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
By Editorial Board, Ellie Collier and Brett Bonfield We at Lead Pipe have had so much going on with us individually and as a collective that we wanted to take a post and share with you what’s new with us. In the Library with the Lead Pipe Almost 3 years old! Lead Pipe has gone... Read More
by Karen Munro The New Status Quo Inside and outside of libraries, everybody is nervous about change. We use terms like “disruptive change” and “tipping point” to talk about the fear that we are traveling into a world where we can’t continue to do what we’ve always done. Some people think we’ve already passed that... Read More
2011
10
Aug
Leading with Heart
by Eric Frierson Introduction There are sections of the bookstore many people don’t want to be seen in. For me, it’s the business section. Every time I’m scanning the spines of new titles on leadership, innovation and management, I feel a little nervous that someone’s going to jump out of the photography section and call... Read More
by Gretchen Kolderup I’m a young adult librarian, but I didn’t read young adult lit when I was a teen myself. I was a precocious reader and desperate to be treated like a grown-up, so I read books for grown-ups because anything else was just too puerile for someone as obviously mature and sophisticated as... Read More
This is the second in a two-part series on librarian collaboration with faculty. Part 1, published on April 7, 2011, presents a five-step program for building collaborative relationships, while Part 2 addresses specific examples and strategies for collaboration. by Kim Leeder I. What we talk about when we talk about collaboration On April 7, 2011,... Read More
by Emily Ford Introduction If you work in a library, chances are you’ve seen or heard calls for you to become a library legislative advocate. You may have seen e-mails asking you to fill out a web form asking legislators to continue funding LSTA, or you may have recently seen e-mails about USA PATRIOT Act... Read More
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome guest author Derek Rodriguez. Derek serves as a Program Officer with the Triangle Research Libraries Network where he supports collaborative technology initiatives within the consortium and is project manager for the TRLN Endeca Project. He is a Doctoral candidate at the School of Information... Read More
By Brett Bonfield “Negotiation seems like dancing the Tango, two steps forward, two steps back and suddenly three surprising steps forward.” — Margot Wallström Smart, well-intentioned people often have good reasons for saying stupid things. Who hasn’t been swept up in an election, worried that there will be terrible consequences if we put the wrong... Read More
2011
18
May
A Short Distance Correctly: 13 Ways of (Not) Writing (Contrarian) Librarianship
by Leigh Anne Vrabel “It’s one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way in order to come back a short distance correctly.” –Edward Albee, The Zoo Story I It’s all fun and games until somebody gets locked in her office.... Read More
by Eric Frierson Introduction Almost three years ago, Emily Ford wrote a post on ALA’s membership pyramid. In this post, she commented on the need for the American Library Association to engage people she called Level 2 and Level 3 members – those who paid dues to ALA but who were not involved or only... Read More