Häuserkämpfe: An Inside Look at Researching in DIY Archives
In Brief: This article is an interview with Jake Smith, a PhD student at the University of Chicago who spent over a year in Germany... Read More
Editorial: Our Favorite Articles from 2013
by Editorial Board, Ellie Collier, Brett Bonfield and Hugh Rundle To kick off 2014, we’re looking back at 2013. In the Library with the Lead... Read More
Giving Games the Old College Try
In Brief: Based on evidence that games might help students get more engaged in my online class, I decided to overcome my skepticism and road-test two... Read More
Creative Destruction in Libraries: Designing our Future
In Brief: Joseph Schumpeter defines creative destruction as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old... Read More
New literacies, learning, and libraries: How can frameworks from other fields help us think about the issues?
In Brief: In the library world, we may look to other fields to help us make sense of new digital literacies. Their frameworks may offer... Read More
A New Polemic: Libraries, MOOCs, and the Pedagogical Landscape
In Brief: The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has emerged in the past few years as the poster child of the online higher education revolution. ... Read More
Killing Sir Walter Scott: A Philosophical Exploration of Weeding
In Brief: Weeding a library collection, while an absolutely essential part of collection management, is a much more complex issue than library literature—and library practitioners—would... Read More
An Interview with Steve Roggenbuck
In Brief: An interview with poet and blogger Steve Roggenbuck about publishing, social media, writing, and, of course, libraries. by Erin Dorney Introduction How many... Read More
Adventures in Rhetoric: The Traditional Library
In Brief: Librarians make frequent reference to “the traditional library” yet there is no accepted definition of the term. Responding to a debate that began... Read More
Becoming a Writer-Librarian
In Brief: This article offers a reflection on my pursuit to become a writer-librarian. In addition to participating in a professional writing program at my institution,... Read More