#DitchTheSurvey: Expanding Methodological Diversity in LIS Research
Survey rating scale: In Brief: Recent content analyses of LIS literature show that, by far, the most popular data collection method employed by librarians and... Read More
Locating the Library in 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
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
Editorial: Our Philosophies of Librarianship
In brief: Members of the Lead Pipe Editorial Board reflect on their own personal philosophies of librarianship in response to Emily Ford’s recent article. What... Read More
Running the Library Race
In Brief: This article draws a parallel between fatigued runners and overworked librarians, proposing that libraries need to pace work more effectively to avoid burnout.... Read More
Stop the Snobbery! Why You’re Wrong About Community Colleges and Don’t Even Know It
By Kim Leeder Several weeks ago I attended my first community college commencement. Despite my staff status, I was pleased to be invited to sit among... Read More
Consensus Decision-Making and its Possibilities in Libraries
By Emily Ford Introduction Since Occupy Wall Street finally started getting mainstream media coverage, the idea of consensus decision-making seems to have permeated our American psyche.... Read More
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... Read More
Filter This
In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes Audrey Barbakoff, a librarian at the Milwaukee Public Library, and Ahniwa Ferrari, Virtual Experience Manager at the... Read More
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... Read More