Inclusivity, Gestalt Principles, and Plain Language in Document Design
In Brief: Good design makes documents easier to use, helps documents stand out from other pieces of information, and lends credibility to document creators. Librarians across... Read More
Beta Spaces as a Model for Recontextualizing Reference Services in Libraries
In Brief: Reference services are at a cross-roads. While many academic libraries continue to offer reference services from behind a desk, others are moving to... Read More
Considering Outreach Assessment: Strategies, Sample Scenarios, and a Call to Action
In Brief: How do we measure the impact of our outreach programming? While there is a lot of information about successful outreach activities in the... Read More
The intersection between cultural competence and whiteness in libraries
In brief The context for this article is Australian libraries and my experience there with cross-cultural provision. However, this article is not about providing library... Read More
Renovation as a Catalyst for Change
Throwback Thursday for November 18, 2015: Take a look at Renovation as a Catalyst for Change by Erin Dorney and Eric Frierson. We may be... Read More
White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS
In Brief: Whiteness—an ideological practice that can extend beyond notions of racial supremacy to other areas of dominance—has permeated every aspect of librarianship, extending even... Read More
Archives Alive!: librarian-faculty collaboration and an alternative to the five-page paper
In brief: The short research paper is ubiquitous in undergraduate liberal arts education. But is this assignment type an effective way to assess student learning... Read More
Adopting the Educator’s Mindset: Charting New Paths in Curriculum and Assessment Mapping
Throwback Thursday for June 18, 2015: In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes Bethany Messersmith to our Editorial Board! In honor of Throwback Thursday,... Read More
On Scholarly Communication and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick
In Brief: At Temple University Libraries (TUL), librarian Fred Rowland began conducting interviews and sharing them as streaming audio through TUL’s website in 2007. The... Read More
Locating Information Literacy within Institutional Oppression
Editor’s note: On July 16th, 2014 we published Open Source Outline: Locating the Library within Institutional Oppression, where we discussed nina de jesus’s Outline for a Paper... Read More