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In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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Open access, open peer reviewed journal on all things librar*, established in 2008. New articles published seasonally-ish. There are no Article Processing Charges or any other charges associated with publishing. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 5d ago

We are live again! You should be able to access the website as normal now. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

In the Library with the Lead Pipe – An open access, peer reviewed journal

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · last wk.

Our website is still down and we are waiting for our service provider to restore it. For anyone working to put together a proposal for the August submission window, here is the most recently archived version of our submission guidelines web.archive.org/web/20260724...

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · last wk.

Our website is still down and we are waiting for our service provider to restore it. For anyone working to put together a proposal for the August submission window, here is the most recently archived version of our submission guidelines web.archive.org/web/20260724...

Submission Guidelines – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · last wk.

Our website is currently down. We are working to restore it. We will update this message when it's working again. In the meantime, if you need anything, you can access our articles through the Wayback Machine (be prepared for slow loading times). web.archive.org/web/20260000...

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reposting another article from this year, while we wait for the August submission window to open - Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher by Kalani Craig, Michelle Dalmau and Sean Purcell

Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 2w ago

A look back at what we've published this year, as we count down to our August open submission window: Seeking Approval, Confronting Objectivity: Neutrality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Approval Process by Allison Bailund, Deborah Tomaras, Michelle Cronquist and @aboutness.bsky.social

Seeking Approval, Confronting Objectivity: Neutrality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Approval Process – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two publication updates: 1) We have codified our open-to-submission periods as January and August of each year. Our next open window will be August 2026. 2) We have increased our word cap to 7,000 words and encourage authors to aim for the range of 4,000-7,000 words (excluding references).

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Our aim is to help other library scholars facing similar challenges think through the implications of exercising their freedoms and make informed decisions… adds to the growing accounts of the lived experiences of library workers in navigating challenging political environments."

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do we write about this?: Reflections on scholarship about immigrants, data literacy, surveillance, and academic freedom in 2025 by Hayley Park and Negeen Aghassibake www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/reflect...

How do you write about immigrants, surveillance, and data literacy at a time when the political landscape around you is constantly shifting, immigrants are being targeted, and higher education is under threat? This question surfaced for us as we were writing an article for Library Trends in 2025 as a non-faculty doctoral student and a non-faculty academic librarian. This article explores the intersection of our personal experience in exercising our academic freedoms and the wider history and context of intellectual freedom in academia. As we worked on our Library Trends article, we confronted questions about our privileges and responsibilities, our concerns about safety, and fighting against self-censorship that grows out of the chilling effect of political pressures on justice-centered scholarship. We suggest risk management considerations and make an argument that collaborative writing can serve as one tool for resistance and empowerment when confronted with these challenges as librarians and library and information science scholars.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"...we recognize that while powerful, writing is not a substitute for other actions. However, our writing partnership has helped us push against feelings of fear and fatalism, and it has been a way to connect with others who also care about these issues."

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do we write about this?: Reflections on scholarship about immigrants, data literacy, surveillance, and academic freedom in 2025 by Hayley Park and Negeen Aghassibake www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/reflect...

How do you write about immigrants, surveillance, and data literacy at a time when the political landscape around you is constantly shifting, immigrants are being targeted, and higher education is under threat? This question surfaced for us as we were writing an article for Library Trends in 2025 as a non-faculty doctoral student and a non-faculty academic librarian. This article explores the intersection of our personal experience in exercising our academic freedoms and the wider history and context of intellectual freedom in academia. As we worked on our Library Trends article, we confronted questions about our privileges and responsibilities, our concerns about safety, and fighting against self-censorship that grows out of the chilling effect of political pressures on justice-centered scholarship. We suggest risk management considerations and make an argument that collaborative writing can serve as one tool for resistance and empowerment when confronted with these challenges as librarians and library and information science scholars.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Throughout our research, the conclusion we came to is that the state of academic freedom for academic librarians is inconsistent across the field and institution-specific. … The status of academic freedom for PhD students is similarly inconsistent and unclear."

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do we write about this?: Reflections on scholarship about immigrants, data literacy, surveillance, and academic freedom in 2025 by Hayley Park and Negeen Aghassibake www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/reflect...

How do you write about immigrants, surveillance, and data literacy at a time when the political landscape around you is constantly shifting, immigrants are being targeted, and higher education is under threat? This question surfaced for us as we were writing an article for Library Trends in 2025 as a non-faculty doctoral student and a non-faculty academic librarian. This article explores the intersection of our personal experience in exercising our academic freedoms and the wider history and context of intellectual freedom in academia. As we worked on our Library Trends article, we confronted questions about our privileges and responsibilities, our concerns about safety, and fighting against self-censorship that grows out of the chilling effect of political pressures on justice-centered scholarship. We suggest risk management considerations and make an argument that collaborative writing can serve as one tool for resistance and empowerment when confronted with these challenges as librarians and library and information science scholars.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'In a way, the archive may act akin to the institution itself, dressing harm and isolation in the language of “care,” and participating in epistemic injustice against people with disabilities and their many “ways of knowing.”' #CripLib

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another Way of Knowing: Resisting Eugenic Propaganda Through Community Archiving by Jess Petrazzuoli-Gallagher and Ashten Vassar-Cain www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/resisti...

In Brief: How do information workers resist the creation of archival “deathworlds”? With rising eugenicist rhetoric in the United States, sites of cultural memory face devastating impacts. These consequences are particularly felt by Disabled and multiply-marginalized communities. This article draws on Disability Justice principles and necropolitical framings to investigate how processes of erasure can be interrupted through active collaboration and critical reevaluation of power-sharing. By supporting alternative forms of knowledge sharing and honoring the lived experience of historically marginalized communities, especially those who have faced forced institutionalization, we hope to craft alternative methodologies that center community involvement and self-determination.
Jenna don't doxx me bro@zinelib.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hot. Library. Scholarship. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Equity > "neutrality" (scare quotes mine, but "neutrality" really must always be in quotation marks, amirite?) 📚

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Seeking Approval, Confronting Objectivity: Neutrality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Approval Process by Allison Bailund, Deborah Tomaras, Michelle Cronquist, and Tina Gross www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/seeking...

In Brief: This study examines the concept of neutrality in Library of Congress Subject Headings and the subject approval process by analyzing proposed headings that were rejected over a nearly 20-year period. It considers the place of neutrality in libraries more generally and argues that equity, rather than neutrality, is the appropriate lens for judging subject heading proposals. Finally, it recommends several reforms that could improve the subject heading process and make it more equitable.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Even when disabled people appear in the archive, they appear as objects of intervention rather than witnesses to their own lives. When disability materials are [viewed] according to the medical model, the archive reproduces the very framework that justified confinement and cure" #CripLib

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another Way of Knowing: Resisting Eugenic Propaganda Through Community Archiving by Jess Petrazzuoli-Gallagher and Ashten Vassar-Cain www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/resisti...

In Brief: How do information workers resist the creation of archival “deathworlds”? With rising eugenicist rhetoric in the United States, sites of cultural memory face devastating impacts. These consequences are particularly felt by Disabled and multiply-marginalized communities. This article draws on Disability Justice principles and necropolitical framings to investigate how processes of erasure can be interrupted through active collaboration and critical reevaluation of power-sharing. By supporting alternative forms of knowledge sharing and honoring the lived experience of historically marginalized communities, especially those who have faced forced institutionalization, we hope to craft alternative methodologies that center community involvement and self-determination.
J. Arendt@uwwoman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Re-reading this piece helped me think through some things today. I'm sharing in case it can help someone else.

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · last yr.

Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer "rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"... being committed to ongoing engagement with Māori knowledge can be personally rewarding as well as contributing to creating a more welcoming profession for Māori librarians. Creating opportunities for non-Māori librarians to share those positive experiences ... could be a really powerful tool"

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fear and Burnout At the Interface of Librarianship and Māori Knowledge in Aotearoa New Zealand by Kathryn Oxborrow Vambe www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/librari...

In Brief: This article presents some findings from a study of non-Māori librarian engagement with Māori knowledge. I asked non-Māori librarians (who predominantly identified as New Zealand European, a local synonym for White) about their journeys of learning and engagement, and Māori librarians about their experiences with their non-Māori colleagues’ engagement (or lack thereof). A key theme was fear on the part of non-Māori librarians. This acted as a barrier to engagement for non-Māori participants and created extra work for Māori librarians who were expected to pick up tasks related to Māori people and culture that their non-Māori colleagues declined to undertake. I suggest that when it comes to Māori knowledge, non-Māori librarians need to feel the fear and persevere, as well as being proactive to act as good allies to their Māori colleagues.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"concern about being qualified... was not the main barrier to [non-Māori librarians' willingness to engage with Māori issues]... much of the time, the knowledge required was at the level of attempting a basic reference desk request or consulting an online dictionary."

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fear and Burnout At the Interface of Librarianship and Māori Knowledge in Aotearoa New Zealand by Kathryn Oxborrow Vambe www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/librari...

In Brief: This article presents some findings from a study of non-Māori librarian engagement with Māori knowledge. I asked non-Māori librarians (who predominantly identified as New Zealand European, a local synonym for White) about their journeys of learning and engagement, and Māori librarians about their experiences with their non-Māori colleagues’ engagement (or lack thereof). A key theme was fear on the part of non-Māori librarians. This acted as a barrier to engagement for non-Māori participants and created extra work for Māori librarians who were expected to pick up tasks related to Māori people and culture that their non-Māori colleagues declined to undertake. I suggest that when it comes to Māori knowledge, non-Māori librarians need to feel the fear and persevere, as well as being proactive to act as good allies to their Māori colleagues.
David William@nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"While it is important for learners to understand AI, I feel that it is also key for learners to be able to reflect upon and identify how AI is making them feel and how they are responding to AI, increasingly important given how persuasive AI hype and personalization can be."

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Making Sense of GenAI Amidst AI Hype and AI Personalization by Sarah Morris www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/ai-hype...

In Brief: Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy frameworks emphasize the importance of understanding Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. But our collective and individual understanding of GenAI is heavily shaped and mediated by the hype narratives that surround it, where GenAI is depicted as powerful, magical, and inevitable. Amidst such compelling narratives, we can face challenges in navigating narrative extremes and exaggerations and in making informed decisions about using GenAI tools. Alongside AI hype, we are also experiencing AI personalization features which encourage trust and positive feelings towards GenAI tools. Taken together, AI hype and AI personalization can challenge and even hinder our ability to engage critically and thoughtfully with GenAI. In this article, I will explore how our understanding of GenAI is influenced by AI hype and AI personalization and consider how hype narratives and personalization features fuel one another and encourage trust in and awe towards GenAI. By centering AI hype and AI personalization as key components to understanding and exploring GenAI, and by incorporating critical media and information literacy skills into AI literacy, I feel that we can develop an AI literacy that better contextualizes GenAI and encourages reflective and critical approaches that can help learners make sense of their emotionally complex experiences with and reactions to GenAI.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"What does it mean to critically engage with something in the midst of being inundated with outlandish propaganda? ... Within a hype cycle, embracing a critical approach involves not just information and understanding but the confidence and knowledge to make and share critical views and arguments."

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Making Sense of GenAI Amidst AI Hype and AI Personalization by Sarah Morris www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/ai-hype...

In Brief: Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy frameworks emphasize the importance of understanding Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. But our collective and individual understanding of GenAI is heavily shaped and mediated by the hype narratives that surround it, where GenAI is depicted as powerful, magical, and inevitable. Amidst such compelling narratives, we can face challenges in navigating narrative extremes and exaggerations and in making informed decisions about using GenAI tools. Alongside AI hype, we are also experiencing AI personalization features which encourage trust and positive feelings towards GenAI tools. Taken together, AI hype and AI personalization can challenge and even hinder our ability to engage critically and thoughtfully with GenAI. In this article, I will explore how our understanding of GenAI is influenced by AI hype and AI personalization and consider how hype narratives and personalization features fuel one another and encourage trust in and awe towards GenAI. By centering AI hype and AI personalization as key components to understanding and exploring GenAI, and by incorporating critical media and information literacy skills into AI literacy, I feel that we can develop an AI literacy that better contextualizes GenAI and encourages reflective and critical approaches that can help learners make sense of their emotionally complex experiences with and reactions to GenAI.