In the Library with the Lead Pipe – An open access, peer reviewed journal Skip to Main Content chat18.webcam Open Menu Home About Awards & Good Words Contact Editorial Board Denisse Solis Ian Beilin 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 Jaena Rae Cabrera Kellee Warren Nicole Cooke Ryan Randall Emeritus Announcements Authors Archives Conduct Submission Guidelines Lead Pipe Publication Process Style Guide Search 2020 Oct 21 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 Sep 16 Danya Leebaw and Alexis Logsdon /1 Comment 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 Sep 02 Jennie Rose Halperin /1 Comment 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 Aug 19 Dave Ellenwood /1 Comment “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 Jul 22 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 Jun 24 Natalia Fernández and Beth Filar Williams /1 Comment 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 Jun 10 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 2020 Apr 29 Ean Henninger /7 Comments Multilingualism, Neoliberalism, and Language Ideologies in Libraries In BriefThis article calls for a more holistic and inclusive approach to the under-examined issue of language in libraries. It begins by foregrounding language as a category of difference and arguing for its consideration in discussions of access, equity, diversity, and inclusion. By drawing on literature from applied linguistics and library and information studies, it... Read More 2020 Apr 01 Frederick Carey /0 Comments Communicating with Information: Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Students with ASD In Brief The focus of this article is twofold: it 1) considers how digital humanities techniques and methodologies increase accessibility and scholarship opportunities for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder; and 2) outlines how libraries can collaborate with existing services to provide subsequently appropriate supports for students. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), one of the increasingly prevalent... Read More 2020 Feb 19 Ian McDermott /0 Comments Open to What? A Critical Evaluation of OER Efficacy Studies In Brief This selective literature review evaluates open educational resources (OER) efficacy studies through the lens of critical pedagogy. OER have radical potential as transformative tools for critical pedagogy or they can serve as a cost-free version of the status quo, inclined toward propagating austerity. This review analyzes studies published since 2008 with regard to... Read More 1 2 3 … 28 Next › This work is licensed under a CC Attribution 4.0 License. ISSN 1944-6195 About this Journal | Archives | Submissions | Conduct