Archive for the 'Law Librarians' Category
Law Library Fellow Brings New Blood to Brooklyn Court
March 10th, 2010Brooklyn Eagle – “The historic Brooklyn Supreme Court Law Library is flourishing, thanks to a fellowship program that’s bringing new blood to the stacks. The staff of the Law Library recently welcomed their first Nathan R. Sobel Kings County Supreme Court Law Library Fellow, Bacilio Mendez, an enthusiastic grad student from Pratt.”
Law librarian makes a legal fashion statement in Fayette
February 28th, 2010Pittsburgh Tribune – “Kathy Kelly, an Erie law librarian, has developed a recycling method so unique, she’s seeking a patent. Kelly makes purses and laptop computer cases from the covers of outdated law books and other volumes.”
So cool!
Are Law Librarians Who Accept Vendor Swag Committing Ethically Questionable Acts?
February 8th, 2010Law Librarian Blog – “When Sarah Glassmeyer announced she was going to auction the proceeds of her unsolicited WestlawNext iPod Nano, I thought and wrote “good for Sarah.” At the same time, I thought it was fine by me if anyone accepted similar vendor swag, noting with tongue firmly planted in cheek, that I was [...]
The 2008 ABA Journal Blawg 100
December 5th, 2008Vote for your favorites.
No law librarian category? How sad.
County’s law library tabbed as best in federal system
November 3rd, 2008Daily Bulletin – “San Bernardino County’s public law library has been nationally recognized as the 2008 Federal Depository Library of the Year.”
Library as [a fun] place
October 9th, 2008Ballad in Plain E – “Mark at the AALL Spectrum Blog wonders whether law libraries are holding fun events in the library, and whether anyone has studied (and presumably reported on) that.”
Of course. I have DDR and WOW parties at my clients libraries all the time.
Library Lemonade
March 23rd, 2008Connie Crosby – “I love the new Library Lemonade blog. It is about “the positive power of libraries and the good work of librarians†and meant to highlight and celebrate our successes. Terrific!”
Locating Lawyers
December 4th, 2007Worth a bookmark for any law librarian.
More on the AALL “Selling Law Librarianship” Article
November 15th, 2007James Mullan – “Firstly I wouldn’t trust the person on the front cover to sell me anything, then there are some of the suggestions for building a set of skills for making you more effective. Some of these are very good (I’ll come on to these later) but some are just bizzare and I’d love [...]
Be a PR Perofessional
November 13th, 2007Selling Law Librarianship. I try to do this everyday. Librarians really need to chat with PR people and learn a few things. (via)
Law Libraries Facing Changes
October 28th, 2007Shane Hoover – “If not for the small sign next to the door, the Stark County Law Library’s entrance looks like that of storage room.”
FYI, the Stark County Law Library has had a blog since April 2003.
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful
October 8th, 2007Above The Law – “They can Shepardize like nobody’s business. They know the proper Bluebook form for CCH looseleafs, by heart. And they look really good in swimwear.”
This is an old post, but it’s new to me. So, take a look (via)
Meredith Gives Us A Taste
August 26th, 2007From her survey results, she says: “Want to be happy? Well, you may want to become a school librarian, work in a law library or work for a consortium or library system, because those three got the highest scores for job satisfaction. Corporate and public librarians had the lowest levels of job satisfaction.”
Yay for Law [...]
New Survey on Law Librarians
August 10th, 2007LawFirm, Inc via Law.com – “Call it what you will, today’s law library is tightly integrated with the rest of the firm. It’s vital not only for finding case law but for finding new business, too. LawFirmInc.’s sixth annual survey of law firm librarians at Am Law 200 firms reveals that they are continuing to [...]
Using RSS Feeds for New Book Titles – Calling All Publishers
February 19th, 2007From Connie Crosby, a no-brainer for publishers.
"Why do the publishers not just each have their new titles in an RSS feed, which I could read in my aggregator (feed reader) like I do a number of the blogs and news feeds I follow? And why could those feeds not be taken together into one [...]
