2010
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Welcoming the Homeless into Libraries
Photo by Flickr user Alex Barth (CC BY 2.0) by Kim Leeder I hope those reading this post had a warm, happy Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. I spent most of last week in Florida at my parents’ “snowbird” house with my immediate family, all of us having traveled at least 1,200 miles to... Read More
2010
10
Nov
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Thanks to Heather B. of [!!!]Sweet Peas Photography[!!!] on Flickr for this image by Emily Ford A Little Background Here at In the Library with the Lead Pipe we’ve had several potential guest authors ask us if we would publish their work under pseudonyms or anonymously. Usually the requests we receive to post anonymously are... Read More
2010
27
Oct
The Desk Setup
Derik Badman Developer, Springshare Who are you, and what do you do? by Brett Bonfield I’m Derik Badman. For a paying job I work as a web developer for Springshare, Inc (creator of LibGuides and LibAnswers). Most of my time is spent working on LibAnswers: adding features and occasionally fixing bugs. I also spend time... Read More
2010
13
Oct
#HackLibSchool
In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes guest poster Micah Vandegrift. Micah is a graduate student in Library and Information Studies at Florida State University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is interning at the Brooklyn Public Library. Micah’s education has focused on 20th century American culture, digital media and the humanities and... Read More
2010
29
Sep
Articulating Value in Special Collections: Are We Collecting Data that Matter?
As librarians, we invest a great deal of time and effort instructing researchers on how to use our materials. This is especially true for special collections librarians, as we attempt to familiarize researchers with our unique resources and intricate collection arrangements. At the end of that instruction investment, we often wonder if we have been... Read More
2010
15
Sep
Editorial: Rising through the Ranks: On Upward Mobility in Librarianship
By Editorial Board, Ellie Collier and Brett Bonfield A few weeks ago we asked you for your suggestions on what you’d like us to cover in future posts. Two comments asked us to talk about upward mobility. Kathleen says: I’d like to see a post on planning for upward mobility in the library world… Training... Read More
2010
1
Sep
A View From the Neutral Zone
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest author, Markus Wust! Markus is the Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries and works on exciting projects such as WolfWalk (mobile app for exploring NC State using special collections images and geolocation data) and NC Architects (database... Read More
2010
18
Aug
Our Blog is Your Blog
by Editorial Board This issue of In the Library with the Lead Pipe is devoted to you, dear reader: your requests, suggestions, and questions for the six of us blogging under the Lead Pipe banner. Since we began this blog nearly two years ago, we have collaborated every few months on a group post to... Read More
2010
4
Aug
Marketing Search: An Interview with Pete Bell of Endeca and Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo
by Brett Bonfield As it turns out, librarians aren’t the only ones competing with Google. In fact, we’re not even the only ones offering an alternative to Google when it comes to helping people find information. There’s Microsoft’s Bing, of course. And Yahoo! Search, at least until 2012, when Bing will begin providing Yahoo’s search... Read More
When we first started introducing guest posts, Char Booth was a name mentioned by many of us at ItLwtLP. As a blogger over at info-mational, Char has introduced ideas that are uniquely critical and thoughtful. (A good example would be Char’s guest post at Tame the Web about The Library Student Bill of Rights.) You... Read More