In Brief by Keahi Adolpho and Stephen G. Krueger Trans and gender diverse people are present in all areas of library work. We use libraries of all types, as members of the public, as students, as...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/decistifying/
In Brief: Although the academic libraries profession recognizes that retention is a complex and important issue, especially for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and sup...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/not-all-staying/
In Brief: Despite a growing pool of research in library and information science (LIS) authored by autistic librarians (see Lawrence, 2013; Tumlin, 2019), the vast majority of LIS research about...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/autistic-students/
In Brief At the Diverse BookFinder (DBF), we work to move the diverse books discussion beyond increasing the number of books (see Aronson et al.) to a deeper consideration of how Black and Indige...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/volunteer-edi-work/
by Natalia Fernández, Jane Nichols, and Diana Park In Brief Conversations about the memorial landscape, as well as commemorative and toponymic naming practices, have exploded across universiti...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/engaging-in-toponymic-justice/
By Lorelei Rutledge, Erika Church, and Devan Church Image: “As I Am”. Mixed media on paper. By Melissa L. Gygi. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) In Brief In her 2020 memoir, activist Aubrey Gordon describes...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/weight-stigma-in-libraries/
By Nikki Andersen In Brief Through autoethnographic reflection and examination of theoretical literature, this article explores my experiences of disability while working in the academic librar...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/chronically-honest/
This article will review the processes that two Student Success and Engagement Librarians undertook in order to embed social justice tenets into their management of peer consulting/teaching progr...
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 exclusio...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2023/empathy-at-work/
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 ho...
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2023/let-no-be-no/