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Empathy at Work

In Brief The purpose of this article is to center the experiences of librarians of color in academic libraries through a discussion of microaggressions and pandemic experiences of racial exclusion....

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Let ‘No’ be ‘No’: When Librarians say ‘No’ to Instruction Opportunities

By Anna White  In Brief There has been more literature about academic librarians saying ‘no’ in the last decade than in previous time periods. However, much of the existing work discusses how academic...

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Librarians’ Roles in Supporting Students’ Mental Health through Teaching...

In Brief Mental health and well-being  is of increasing concern on college campuses. Grounded in feminist pedagogy and an ethic of care, this study asks what roles instruction librarians perceive...

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Dominant COVID Narratives and Implications for Information Literacy Education...

Image: Disorientation, by heiwa4126 (CC BY 2.0) In Brief Over the past three+ years that COVID-19 has changed everyday life across the globe, people around the world have been tasked with making sense...

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Compounded Labor: Developing OER as a Marginalized Creator

by Jennifer Jordan In Brief From the lens of a new Online Educational Resources (OER) Librarian embarking on an OER initiative at an R1 university I reflect on creating and implementing an English OER...

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A Genealogy of Open

by Betsy Yoon Abstract/In Brief The term open has become a familiar part of library and education practice and discourse, with open source software being a common referent. However, the conditions...

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Solidarity is for librarians: Lessons from organizing

By Diana Castillo and Kelly McElroy In Brief After many years of declining union membership, there is growing interest and effort to unionize workers in many sectors within the United States. While...

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Dispelling the Myth of Library Anxiety and Embracing Academic Discomfort

By Kelleen Maluski and Symphony Bruce In Brief Countless articles, essays, studies, and conference presentations have been devoted to library anxiety and defining, analyzing, and reviewing behaviors...

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Shakespeare, Science, and Outside Scholarship: An Interview with Dennis McCarthy

by Rochelle Smith In Brief The majority of the last century of research exists in the temporal space between the start of copyright and the dawn of the open access movement. Getting access to these...

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The old and the prudish: an examination of sex, sexuality, and queerness in...

By Tiffany Henry, Rhonda Kauffman, and Anastasia Chiu In Brief Despite the fact that scholarship and knowledge about sex and sexuality have grown enormously in the last century, these topics in the...

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A Practitioner’s Guide to Serious Play in the Library

By Reid Boehm and Taylor Davis-Van Atta In brief For academic libraries, making investments that strengthen and integrate research and development (R&D) capacity may also disrupt long-established...

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Working Towards Tenure Together: Creating an Intersectional Peer Supported...

By Halle Burns, Mayra Corn, Jennifer Culley, Stephanie Fell, Sarah Jones, Christina Miskey, Ruby Nugent, Rebecca Orozco, Brittani Sterling, & Aidy Weeks1 In Brief After observing the realities of...

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Navigating the Academic Hiring Process with Disabilities

By Gail Betz In Brief This article will describe strategies employed by academic librarians with disabilities throughout the hiring process. In in-depth interviews with 40 full-time employed academic...

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Letter From the Editorial Board

Dear Valued Readers, We would like to address some of the responses to our recently published article, “Conspiratorial Thinking in Academic Libraries: Implications for Change Management and...

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Conspiratorial Thinking in Academic Libraries: Implications for Change...

In Brief Some level of belief in conspiracy theories among United States citizens is quite common. Academic libraries have seen significant change over the past 30 years, creating environments ripe...

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Are we walking the talk? A snapshot of how academic LIS journals are (or...

By Rachel Borchardt, Symphony Bruce, Amanda Click, and Charlotte Roh In Brief  The academic library field claims to value social responsibility, open access, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)....

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New Year, New Cycles, New Platform

Update from the In the Library with the Lead Pipe Editorial Board In 2022, we will be refreshing, upgrading, and relaunching on a new platform and with new cycles for article submission and...

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Source Evaluation: Supporting Undergraduate Student Research Development

By Iris Jastram, Claudia Peterson and Emily Scharf In Brief  Each year since 2008, librarians at Carleton College read samples of sophomore writing as part of the Information Literacy in Student...

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Reflections on Active Collecting During Difficult Times

by Kyna Herzinger and Rebecca Pattillo In Brief At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Archives and Special Collections Library at the University of Louisville launched a project to collect the...

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Dismantling the Evaluation Framework

(Atharva Tulsi, Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/RVpCAtjhyuA) By Alaina C. Bull, Margy MacMillan, and Alison J. Head In brief For almost 20 years, instruction librarians have relied on variations...

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