Running the Library Race
In Brief: This article draws a parallel between fatigued runners and overworked librarians, proposing that libraries need to pace work more effectively to avoid burnout.... 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
What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library?
tl;dr – Libraries and digital humanities have the same goals. Stop asking if the library has a role, or what it is, and start getting... 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
Zen and the Art of Constructive Criticism
By Erin Dorney Introduction If there were a single piece of advice I have for new professionals entering the field of librarianship, it would be to... Read More
#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... Read More
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... 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
Outreach is (un)Dead.
By Emily Ford Outreach is dead. It’s time we put its body in a coffin, say our collective prayers and move on. You see, for most... Read More