In the Library with the Lead Pipe – Page 25 – An open access, peer reviewed journal

By Emily Ford Several of my In the Library with the Lead Pipe posts have centered around work/life balance, or being happy and healthy in a job. When I wrote about losing my mojo I also mentioned that a big thing for me was my transition from working full-time to half-time. After that post I...

By Hilary Davis Last year there was a revolt against Facebook. Lots of people were weighing the pros and cons of becoming a Facebook dropout, including librarians. For many of these detractors and potential detractors of Facebook, the disjunct structure of personal and professional identity was no longer holding up under the pressure of Facebook’s...

In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes David B. Morris. In between twenty years as a self-employed writer, Morris held professorships at the University of Iowa, at the University of Virginia, and at Stanford University. His wider understanding of books and lives owes much to his wife, Ruth, a technical services librarian and library...

In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes guest author Adrian Whatley. Adrian Whatley is the e-Resources Librarian at Austin Community College. She views her job as connecting students to the information they need in the easiest, most time-efficient manner possible. by Adrian Whatley and Ellie Collier Part One: Setting the Stage Austin Community College...

Photo by Flickr user Alex Barth (CC BY 2.0) by Kim Leeder I hope those reading this post had a warm, happy Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. I spent most of last week in Florida at my parents’ “snowbird” house with my immediate family, all of us having traveled at least 1,200 miles to...

Thanks to Heather B. of [!!!]Sweet Peas Photography[!!!] on Flickr for this image by Emily Ford A Little Background Here at In the Library with the Lead Pipe we’ve had several potential guest authors ask us if we would publish their work under pseudonyms or anonymously. Usually the requests we receive to post anonymously are...

Derik Badman Developer, Springshare Who are you, and what do you do? by Brett Bonfield I’m Derik Badman. For a paying job I work as a web developer for Springshare, Inc (creator of LibGuides and LibAnswers). Most of my time is spent working on LibAnswers: adding features and occasionally fixing bugs. I also spend time...

As librarians, we invest a great deal of time and effort instructing researchers on how to use our materials. This is especially true for special collections librarians, as we attempt to familiarize researchers with our unique resources and intricate collection arrangements. At the end of that instruction investment, we often wonder if we have been...

Struggling to Juggle: Part-time Temporary Work in Libraries

Reconsidering Facebook

Disappearances

Take the Template and Run: Austin Community College’s Student Library and Technology Use Study

Welcoming the Homeless into Libraries

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The Desk Setup

Articulating Value in Special Collections: Are We Collecting Data that Matter?