In the Library with the lead pipe

Badman, D. et al. (2008) In the Library with the Lead Pipe United States viewed 07/04/2010 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ .

In the Library with the Lead Pipe is run by six authors all librarians in public, academic and school libraries in the US. Contact details are available for each of the librarians as well as a short history on each of them. Items of interest are published on the site after being submitted for peer review by one external and one internal reviewer. The site is therefore considered authorititive. The published aim of the site is intended to 'help improve our communities, our libraries, and our professional organizations. Our goal is to explore new ideas and start conversations; to document our concerns and argue for solutions'. It has an understandable US bias in its published articles.

This site is interesting to all library workers but seems from its articles to have a leaning towards educational situations in the school and college system rather than public libraries. That said there are some interesting articles in the archives on libraries in general. Most articles seem to be 1000 or so words long and fully referenced so maybe this is as much an online magazine as it is a blog.