In the Library with the Lead Pipe – Page 3 – 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 2019 Jul 24 Sarah Laleman Ward, Mason Brown and Stephanie Margolin /1 Comment Shifting the Balance of Power: Asking Questions about the Comics-Questions Curriculum In Brief We shift the balance of power in this paper by discussing a particular library lesson, the Comics-Questions Curriculum, with some of the students who participated in it, several years after they completed the workshop. By interviewing students and including them as co-authors of this paper, we re-center students in our analysis of this... Read More 2019 Jul 10 Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby /1 Comment All carrots, no sticks: Relational practice and library instruction coordination In Brief: This article explores the relational practices that comprise the feminized work of instruction coordinators in academic libraries. It is a continuation of research originally presented at the 2017 Association of College and Research Libraries Conference. Through the lens of relational-cultural theory and social constructions of work, this expanded research analysis names the specific... Read More 2019 Jun 12 Miranda Dube /1 Comment New Hampshire Public Library Services for Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence In Brief Domestic violence and sexual assault survivors experience unique information needs that can be answered through formal avenues such as a crisis center or police/court proceedings, but many survivors do not take a formal route to recovery. This survey seeks to identify what services and policies guide New Hampshire public libraries in providing services... Read More 2019 May 22 Aliqae Geraci and Shannon L. Farrell /1 Comment Normalize Negotiation! Learning to Negotiate Salaries and Improve Compensation Outcomes to Transform Library Culture In Brief This article explores academic librarians’ experiences with compensation negotiation, using a combination of survey and interview data. Specifically, we focus on where librarians learned how to negotiate, where they sought or found advice, where they wished they had received information, and what factors would help them negotiate and improve their outcomes in the... Read More 2019 May 01 Laura Soito and Sarah R. Kostelecky /1 Comment No results found: A review of biographical information about award-winning children’s book authors in subscription and free resources In Brief Prompted by recent discussions of diversity and representation in children’s literature, this study evaluates resources recommended to students for author study assignments in children’s/young adult literature courses at one university. Striving to provide research materials that reflect the communities and experiences of students at The University of New Mexico—a Hispanic serving research university... Read More 2019 Apr 17 Camille Thomas, Elia Trucks and H.B. Kouns /1 Comment Preparing Early Career Librarians for Leadership and Management: A Feminist Critique In Brief This article explores the opportunities and challenges that early career librarians face when advancing their careers, desired qualities for leaders or managers of all career stages, and how early career librarians can develop those qualities. Our survey asked librarians at all career stages to share their sentiments, experiences, and perceptions of leadership and... Read More 2019 Mar 06 Leo Settoducato /6 Comments Intersubjectivity and Ghostly Library Labor In Brief Libraries are haunted houses. As our patrons move through scenes and illusions that took years of labor to build and maintain, we workers are hidden, erasing ourselves in the hopes of providing a seamless user experience, in the hopes that these patrons will help defend Libraries against claims of death or obsolescence. However,... Read More 2019 Feb 20 Kate Dohe /3 Comments Care, Code, and Digital Libraries: Embracing Critical Practice in Digital Library Communities In Brief In this article, the author explores the necessity of articulating an ethics of care in the design, governance, and future evolution of digital library software applications. Long held as the primary technological platforms to advance the most radical values of librarianship, the digital library landscape has become a re-enactment of local power dynamics... Read More 2019 Feb 06 Chelsea Heinbach, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, Rosan Mitola and Emily Pattni /4 Comments Dismantling Deficit Thinking: A strengths-based inquiry into the experiences of transfer students in and out of academic libraries In Brief Library research on transfer students tends to focus on the idea of the “struggling” transfer student and creating solutions to “fix” them. While we might assume transfer students will falter because they missed our institutions’ first-year offerings, this oversimplifies their vast and heterogeneous experiences. Our study complicates the narrative of the lagging transfer... Read More 2019 Jan 23 Kirsten Thorpe /3 Comments Transformative praxis – building spaces for Indigenous self-determination in libraries and archives In Brief This article explores questions regarding the development and support of Indigenous priorities and self-determination in Australian libraries and archives. It calls for greater use of Indigenous research methodologies within library and archival science in order to seek ways to decolonize and simultaneously indiginze libraries and archives. As a written reflection, the article shares... Read More ‹ Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 28 Next › This work is licensed under a CC Attribution 4.0 License. ISSN 1944-6195 About this Journal | Archives | Submissions | Conduct