2010
15
Sep
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Editorial: Rising through the Ranks: On Upward Mobility in Librarianship
By Editorial Board, Ellie Collier and Brett Bonfield A few weeks ago we asked you for your suggestions on what you’d like us to cover in future posts. Two comments asked us to talk about upward mobility. Kathleen says: I’d like to see a post on planning for upward mobility in the library world… Training... Read More
2010
1
Sep
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 North Carolina State University Libraries and works on exciting projects such as WolfWalk (mobile app for exploring NC State using special collections images and geolocation data) and NC Architects (database... Read More
2010
18
Aug
Our Blog is Your Blog
by Editorial Board This issue of In the Library with the Lead Pipe is devoted to you, dear reader: your requests, suggestions, and questions for the six of us blogging under the Lead Pipe banner. Since we began this blog nearly two years ago, we have collaborated every few months on a group post to... Read More
2010
4
Aug
Marketing Search: An Interview with Pete Bell of Endeca and Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo
by Brett Bonfield As it turns out, librarians aren’t the only ones competing with Google. In fact, we’re not even the only ones offering an alternative to Google when it comes to helping people find information. There’s Microsoft’s Bing, of course. And Yahoo! Search, at least until 2012, when Bing will begin providing Yahoo’s search... Read More
When we first started introducing guest posts, Char Booth was a name mentioned by many of us at ItLwtLP. As a blogger over at info-mational, Char has introduced ideas that are uniquely critical and thoughtful. (A good example would be Char’s guest post at Tame the Web about The Library Student Bill of Rights.) You... Read More
2010
7
Jul
Tryin’ to Get My Mojo Workin’
Muddy Waters, can you help me get my mojo working? by Emily Ford I have a problem. Several months ago I realized I’d lost my librarian mojo and since that time I’ve been struggling to reclaim it. Being the person that I am, I have been hyper-analyzing my mojo loss. I have been disenchanted at... Read More
2010
23
Jun
The Fiske Report
by Ellie Collier Introduction I have a soft spot in my heart for library history. I credit my library history classes for making me the academic librarian I am today. They taught me more about critical thinking, how to do research, and how to navigate an academic library than the rest of my program combined.... Read More
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 at the point in this librarian job where I have enough experience to know how to get things done, and also enough to wonder, “What exactly am I doing?” The... Read More
by Selden Lamoureux and Hilary Davis When I asked Selden Lamoureux, Electronic Serials Librarian at the North Carolina State University Libraries, “what are the most challenging issues for electronic serials librarians today?” we launched into a fascinating conversation about a topic that hits at the core of what it means to work in library acquisitions... Read More
by Brett Bonfield A few months back, someone emailed In the Library with the Lead Pipe asking if we could recommend an online course that could give her an overview of library responsibilities. She was about to start working at a K-12 school and, though she had no library experience, part of her job included... Read More