AALL President, Steven P. Anderson is looking for ways that law libraries and law librarians can communicate the value they bring to their institutions and communities. Anderson’s idea is to go beyond simply talking about the value, and actually create a report that presents the values through metrics and outcomes. Having sat with Steve over
The New "Citing Legally" Blog Launches
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I got a note from Peter Martin, the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law, Emeritus, and former dean, Cornell Law School, letting me know that he was starting a blog as a result of the work he was doing with the annual revision of Introduction to Basic Legal Citation. Peter, along
Law360: Librarians Hate It, Lawyers Love It
If you ever want to have some fun at the expense of a law firm librarian, just go up to them and “I have some lawyers that want us to buy a firm wide subscription to Law360… is there anything I should know before doing it?” Then step back and watch them spit fire
Taxonomic Dilemmas at the ARK KM Conference
I have spent the last two days at the ARK Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession conference in Midtown Manhattan. It was a very good conference, as usual. I very much enjoyed listening to and meeting with many brilliant and fascinating people to talk about KM in legal. However, after this conference I have come
Are You A Casemaker or Fastcase State? Duke Law Library Maps It Out For You
One of the best member benefits of a State Bar Association is the ability to access Casemaker or Fastcase (or InCite for Pennsylvania). However, sometimes it is confusing to keep up with which product each state offers. Luckily, the kind folks at Duke University’s Law Library have mapped everything out for us. Many
Not So Fast …
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In the 19th century one of the big business revolutions was the adoption of a new technology called “Railroads.” Of course when railroads were first proposed, two things happened. The first was a general uprising from the establishment about why this was a bad idea. This push-back came from those you would
My Quick Advice to a 3L
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I got a LinkedIn email last week from someone that has taken a path very similar to the one I took twent-some years ago. Same Army M.O.S., same college, same law school, so far, not interested in the library portion. He’s a 3L and about to enter the workforce as an attorney,
Show Me The Innovation
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At the recent (and extremely successful) P3 Conference last week, a comment really stuck in my head. There was a panel on Show Me the Practice Innovation and the final question to the panel was to point out any true innovations in legal services over the past 25 years. The panel
Labels Run Amok or A Librarian by Any Other Name Would not Read as Sweetly…
There has been a lot of discussion in Law Library Land lately about the use of the term “Librarian” to describe the staff that curates and researches in a private law library. The discussion, which has taken place in both blogs (Here is an excellent post) and on AALL listservs, has been lively and interesting.
As a brand,
Law Librarian Blog's Hodnicki & Giangrande Start New Blog
Some of us have noticed a vacuum in the space where the prolific Law Librarian Blog once stood. Anyone that has been in the law librarian profession, and hasn’t lived under a rock, is familiar with the posts that come mulitple times a day from Joe Hodnicki and Mark Giangrande (well, mostly Hodnicki). The blog