In the Library with the Lead Pipe – An open access, peer reviewed journal Skip to Main Content Open Menu Home About Awards & Good Words Contact Editorial Board Denisse Solis Ian Beilin Ikumi Crocoll Jaena Rae Cabrera Kellee Warren Nicole Cooke Ryan Randall Emeritus Announcements Authors Archives Conduct Submission Guidelines Lead Pipe Publication Process Style Guide Search Home About Awards & Good Words Contact Editorial Board Denisse Solis Ian Beilin Ikumi Crocoll Jaena Rae Cabrera Kellee Warren Nicole Cooke Ryan Randall Emeritus Announcements Authors Archives Conduct Submission Guidelines Lead Pipe Publication Process Style Guide Search 2021 31 Mar Katy DiVittorio and Lorelle Gianelli /0 Comments Ethical Financial Stewardship: One Library’s Examination of Vendors’ Business Practices By Katy DiVittorio and Lorelle Gianelli In Brief The evaluation of library collections rarely digs into the practices or other business ventures of the companies that create or sell library resources. As financial stewards, academic Acquisition Librarians are in a unique position to consider the business philosophy and practices of our vendors as they align... Read More 2021 24 Feb Amelia Gibson, Kristen Bowen and Dana Hanson /0 Comments We Need to Talk About How We Talk About Disability: A Critical Quasi-systematic Review By Amelia Gibson, Kristen Bowen, and Dana Hanson In Brief This quasi-systematic review uses a critical disability framework to assess definitions of disability, use of critical disability approaches, and hierarchies of credibility in LIS research between 1978 and 2018. We present quantitative and qualitative findings about trends and gaps in the research, and discuss the... Read More 2020 2 Dec Craig Arthur, Freddy Paige, La' Portia Perkins, Jasmine Weiss and Michael Williams /0 Comments Culturally Responsive Community Engagement Programming and the University Library: Lessons Learned from Half a Decade of VTDITC By Craig E. Arthur, Dr. Freddy Paige, La’ Portia Perkins, Jasmine Weiss, and Dr. Michael Williams (Good Homie Signs’ “Hip Hop @ VT” mural 7/18) In Brief VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech is an award-winning series of experiential learning-focused, culturally responsive community engagement programs. It is deeply rooted in hip hop culture and... Read More 2020 21 Oct Jeremiah Paschke-Wood, Ellen Dubinsky and Leslie Sult /2 Comments Creating a Student-Centered Alternative to Research Guides: Developing the Infrastructure to Support Novice Learners In Brief: Research and course guides typically feature long lists of resources without the contextual or instructional framework to direct novice researchers through the research process. An investigation of guide usage and user interactions at a large university in the southwestern U.S. revealed a need to reexamine the way research guides can be developed and... Read More 2020 16 Sep Danya Leebaw and Alexis Logsdon /1 Comments Power and Status (and Lack Thereof) in Academe: Academic Freedom and Academic Librarians In Brief Academic librarians do not experience full academic freedom protections, despite the fact that they are expected to exercise independent judgment, be civically engaged, and practice applied scholarship. Academic freedom for academic librarians is not widely studied or well understood. To learn more, we conducted a survey which received over 600 responses from academic... Read More 2020 2 Sep Jennie Rose Halperin /1 Comments The Library Commons: An Imagination and an Invocation By Jennie Rose Halperin In Brief Commons theory can provide important interventions within neoliberal managerial information capitalism when applied to the library as an institution. The commons and its associated practices provide a model of abundance, sharing, and cooperation. Libraries can and should participate in alternative economic and management models to create an inclusive vision... Read More 2020 19 Aug Dave Ellenwood /1 Comments “Information Has Value”: The Political Economy of Information Capitalism In Brief Information capitalism dominates the production and flow of information across the globe. It produces massive information institutions that are as harmful to everyday people as they are powerful. To this point, Information Literacy (IL) educators do not have a theory and pedagogy of information capitalism. This article appraises the current state of political... Read More 2020 22 Jul Liz Vine /2 Comments Training Matters: Student Employment and Learning in Academic Libraries In Brief Conceiving of student employment in academic libraries as an educationally purposeful experience requires adopting a learner-centered pedagogical approach to student employee job training. Adopting such an approach is triply beneficial: it makes that job training more effective; it identifies training as an opportunity to pursue learning goals that support the growth of students... Read More 2020 24 Jun Natalia Fernández and Beth Filar Williams /1 Comments Creating a Library Wide Culture and Environment to Support MLIS Students of Color: The Diversity Scholars Program at Oregon State University Libraries In Brief The work of social justice, equity, and inclusion is not a short-term investment by a limited number of people; instead, it should be a part of every library’s and librarian’s work. At the Oregon State University Libraries (OSUL), we felt that in order to create a program dedicated to employing MLIS students of... Read More 2020 10 Jun Nicola Andrews /10 Comments It’s Not Imposter Syndrome: Resisting Self-Doubt as Normal For Library Workers In Brief Library workers, as with other professions, are quick to diagnose ourselves and others with imposter syndrome when we doubt or devalue our everyday work.  However, methods of coping with imposter syndrome have changed little in the forty years since the term was first theorized, and often centre on feel-good fixes which do not... Read More 1 2 3 … 29 Next › This work is licensed under a CC Attribution 4.0 License. ISSN 1944-6195. About this Journal | Archives | Submissions | Conduct