Who are you empowering?
In brief: As librarians we continue to grapple with our role in a world of digital information. The case has been made for an enthusiastic... Read More
A New Polemic: Libraries, MOOCs, and the Pedagogical Landscape
In Brief: The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has emerged in the past few years as the poster child of the online higher education revolution. ... Read More
Adventures in Rhetoric: The Traditional Library
In Brief: Librarians make frequent reference to “the traditional library” yet there is no accepted definition of the term. Responding to a debate that began... 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
Libraries: The Next Hundred Years
By Brett Bonfield Usually when we discuss the future of libraries, we’re talking about a year or two in the future, maybe up to ten. We... Read More
Editorial: Have We Changed the World Yet? (Oh, Just Wait)
In brief: It’s our birthday! As In the Library with the Lead Pipe turns four, the editors reflect on its evolution into an award-winning publication.... Read More
Resilience vs. Sustainability: The Future of Libraries
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... Read More
What are Libraries For?
In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes guest author Hugh McGuire, the founder of LibriVox.org, the world’s most prolific publisher of audiobooks (all read... Read More
My Maverick Bar: A Search for Identity and the “Real Work” of Librarianship
by Kim Leeder Summer Interlude Three years, twenty committees, twelve hundred instruction sessions, forty thousand monograph purchases, and half a million reference questions later, I’m... Read More
Vision and Visionaries: A Whole Bunch of Questions to Start off 2010 (As if you didn’t have enough of those already)
by Kim Leeder During the last few frenzied weeks of the academic semester last month I came across an article I reviewed quickly and put... Read More