2011
24
Aug

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 point” to talk about the fear that we are traveling into a world where we can’t continue to do what we’ve always done.  Some people think we’ve already passed that...
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2011
10
Aug

Leading with Heart

by Eric Frierson Introduction There are sections of the bookstore many people don’t want to be seen in. For me, it’s the business section. Every time I’m scanning the spines of new titles on leadership, innovation and management, I feel a little nervous that someone’s going to jump out of the photography section and call...
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2011
27
Jul

Are You Reading YA Lit? You Should Be.

by Gretchen Kolderup I’m a young adult librarian, but I didn’t read young adult lit when I was a teen myself. I was a precocious reader and desperate to be treated like a grown-up, so I read books for grown-ups because anything else was just too puerile for someone as obviously mature and sophisticated as...
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2011
15
Jun

Understanding library impacts on student learning

In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome guest author Derek Rodriguez. Derek serves as a Program Officer with the Triangle Research Libraries Network where he supports collaborative technology initiatives within the consortium and is project manager for the TRLN Endeca Project. He is a Doctoral candidate at the School of Information...
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