New Grads, Meet New Metrics: Why Early Career Librarians Should Care About Altmetrics & Research Impact
In Brief How do academic librarians measure their impact on the field of LIS, particularly in light of eventual career goals related to reappointment, promotion,... Read More
Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship
In Brief: After presenting together at ACRL 2015 to share research we conducted on race, identity, and diversity in academic librarianship, we reconvene panelists Ione... Read More
Revising Academic Library Governance Handbooks
Original Image by Flickr user Sasquatch 1 (CC BY 2.0), with minimal modification by C. Strunk (10 June 2015). In Brief Regardless of our status... Read More
“I’m Just Really Comfortable:” Learning at Home, Learning in Libraries
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... Read More
Adopting the Educator’s Mindset: Charting New Paths in Curriculum and Assessment Mapping
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,... Read More
Ice Ice Baby: Are Librarian Stereotypes Freezing Us out of Instruction?
In Brief: Why do librarians struggle so much with instruction? Part of the problem is that we have so many facets to consider: pedagogy, campus culture,... Read More
Creative Destruction in Libraries: Designing our Future
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... Read More
Students As Stakeholders: Library Advisory Boards and Privileging Our Users
In Brief: This article investigates the idea of library student advisory boards as mechanisms for building more student-centered libraries at colleges and universities. Benefits of these... Read More
What do we do and why do we do it?
In Brief: The library community should develop a philosophy of librarianship. In order to do so the community should engage in a dialogue about what... Read More
Stop the Snobbery! Why You’re Wrong About Community Colleges and Don’t Even Know It
By Kim Leeder Several weeks ago I attended my first community college commencement. Despite my staff status, I was pleased to be invited to sit among... Read More