In the Library with the Lead Pipe – Page 16 – An open access, peer reviewed journal

In brief: Intellectual freedom and equal access to information are central to libraries’ mission, but libraries often fail to consider the intellectual freedom needs of teenage patrons, or lump teen patrons in with children in conversations of intellectual freedom. However, adolescence is developmentally distinct from childhood, and the freedom to access information of all kinds...

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 I Probably Won’t Write and called for authors to use her open source outline as the basis for an article of their own. We are pleased that nina herself and Joshua Beatty...

In brief: Lead Pipe is changing our licensing from CC-BY-NC to CC-BY. Here, we explain why. by Editorial Board, Brett Bonfield, Ellie Collier, Erin Dorney and Coral Sheldon-Hess In the Library with the Lead Pipe has, since we began publishing in 2008, been run by volunteers with a desire to spread ideas for positive change as...

by Ellie Collier and Editorial Board In the Library with the Lead Pipe is seeking applications for a Social Media Editor. This volunteer position will serve on the Lead Pipe Editorial Board for a two-year term of service. Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer reviewed journal founded and run by an international team...

by Editorial Board We’ve just finalized revamping our publication process documentation. Now that the new documentation is live we thought it was a good time to post another call for articles. What We Publish We publish high quality peer-reviewed articles in a range of formats. Whilst we are open to suggestions for new article types...

by Ellie Collier and Editorial Board The Editorial Board is pleased to announce In the Library with the Lead Pipe’s adoption of a Code of Conduct. By doing so, we hope to protect the members of our community from harassing behaviors in Lead Pipe spaces, including this website, our social media spaces, and any other...

In Brief: A call for articles based on an open source outline by Ellie Collier and Editorial Board On January 20th, 2014 nina de jesus posted “Outline for a Paper I Probably Won’t Write.” The editors at In the Library with the Lead Pipe approached de jesus to see if she might like to write...

In Brief: When librarians discuss the lack of underrepresented populations in librarianship, the solutions suggested most often are recruitment and awareness. But these discussions focus on one matrix of identity, like race or class, and ignore the fact that people embody multiple, layered identities. By treating these matrices of identity and marginalization as separate entities,...

In Brief: Librarians create collections of works grounded in many western academic forms of research and they conduct research using many of these qualitative and quantitative methodologies as well. But are there perhaps research methods around the margins, ones that might help us ask different questions or let our research serve different ends? In this,...

The Right to Read: The How and Why of Supporting Intellectual Freedom for Teens

Locating the Library in Institutional Oppression

Locating Information Literacy within Institutional Oppression

Editorial: Open for Business – Why In the Library with the Lead Pipe is Moving to CC-BY Licensing

Call for Social Media Editor

Call for Articles

Editorial: Announcing In the Library with the Lead Pipe’s Community Code of Conduct

Open Source Outline: Locating the Library within Institutional Oppression

Making a New Table: Intersectional Librarianship

Exploring Critical and Indigenous Research Methods with a Research Community: Part I – The Leap