In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest author, Jean Costello! Jean is a technical project manager for a prominent STM publisher. She is a passionate supporter of public libraries and blogs regularly as The Radical Patron.

2009 may be an inflection point for public libraries. This year, the deepest recession [...]

In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest
author, Kristine Alpi! Kris is the Director of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University Libraries.
Why do document delivery technologies limit information transfer?
The technologies that libraries use for interlibrary loan and document delivery frequently reduce the [...]

Thanks to Flickr user laura padgett for the use of this image.

Outreach is dead. It’s time we put its body in a coffin, say our collective prayers and move on.
You see, for most of the summer I undertook a long series of “outreach” trips to promote and educate the public at large about a grant-funded [...]