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Library as [a fun] place

October 9th, 2008

Ballad 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, 2008

Connie 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, 2007

Worth a bookmark for any law librarian.

More on the AALL “Selling Law Librarianship” Article

November 15th, 2007

James 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, 2007

Selling 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, 2007

Shane 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, 2007

Above 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, 2007

From 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, 2007

LawFirm, 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, 2007

From 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 [...]