Editorial: Recent Reads – In the Library with the Lead Pipe 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 2017 26 Jul Editorial Board, Ian Beilin, Amy Koester, Sofia Leung, Bethany Radcliffe, Annie Pho, Ryan Randall and Denisse Solis /0 Comments Editorial: Recent Reads It’s summer in the northern hemisphere, and your editors at In the Library with the Lead Pipe are busy keeping up with the influx of patrons, with improving our instruction programs, and with other joys of summer. As always, we’re also thinking of ways librarians can improve our profession. Here’s a few recent articles that we’ve been revisiting and think you might also enjoy reading or revisiting. If you have other reading recommendations, feel free to suggest them in the comments. Fobazi Ettarh’s Making a New Table: Intersectional Librarianship April Hathock’s White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS Juleah Swanson, Ione Damasco, Isabel Gonzalez-Smith, Dracine Hodges, Todd Honma, and Azusa Tanaka’s Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship Jennifer Turner and Jessica Schomberg’s Inclusivity, Gestalt Principles, and Plain Language in Document Design Jennifer Vinopal’s The Quest for Diversity in Library Staffing: From Awareness to Action   editorial Following the Yik Yak: Using Social Media Observations to Understand Student Needs on College Campuses We Used Problem-Based Learning in Library Instruction and Came to Question Its Treatment of Students This work is licensed under a CC Attribution 4.0 License. ISSN 1944-6195. About this Journal | Archives | Submissions | Conduct