On April 28th, I will be moderating a webinar featuring Scott Preston (Geek #4) and Sarah Clark Kavanagh where they will put on a program to talk about some of the issues that face both Law Firm Librarians and Law Firm Technology Professionals. Although we face many of the same issue, for most law firms,
Go ahead and block off July 23rd, and schedule your plane, train or automobile trip over to Philadelphia for a day long meeting focused on the issues that confront private law firm libraries, librarians and administrators. Anyone that went to the first PLL-SIS (Private Law Library – Special Interest Section) Summit in Denver last year can
In the final part of Robert Shaffer’s keynote address to the AALL Vendor Colloquium (see Part One and Part Two), the discussion shifts to how the legal information field is reacting to the trends within the industry, and to the new actions from the consumers of legal information.
This is part two of Roberta Shaffer’s keynote address to the AALL Vendor Colloquium (see Part One). In this part, the discussion focuses on:
The Law Librarian of Congress, Roberta Shaffer, gave an amazing keynote address that helped kick off the AALL Vendor Colloquium in Chicago on Monday. I know that there were a number of members that would have like to have that keynote speech live streamed, but I’m going to try to do the next best thing
In February, Toby and I are going to participate in a Private Law Libraries Special Interest Section (PLL-SIS) of AALL discussing how law librarians’ skill sets can be used to support strategic Knowledge Management. Of course, Toby will be doing all the heavy lifting, and I’ll be sitting back asking him some off-the-wall questions.
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AALL is accepting nominations for new products that are valuable to library services. “New Product” is being defined as having been in the market for less than two years, or has been substantially changed during that time. So, if there’s a great product that you’ve brought into your library, you should seriously think about submitting that
I have a few questions to ask AALL members that are inspired by both the SLA project I wrote about yesterday, and from Joe Hodnicki’s post on New Year’s Day that takes AALL to task about using blogs to get information out more quickly to its membership. Hodnicki specifically focuses on the Committee on Relations
Many of you may have heard that I have been elected to the American Association of Law Libraries Executive Board. Although I don’t officially start until after the July conference, I am happy that the current board has created an award to recognize newer law librarians.
If you know of someone that’s been a law