There were many eyebrows raised in 2008 when John Palfrey was appointed the new Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. Many questioned whether a man without a Library Degree (he does have a JD and a Masters in Philosophy) could run one of, if not the most, prestigious Law Libraries in the
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When you graduate from a high school that only had 49 Seniors, it is very unlikely that anyone will have forgotten about you. I had the pleasure of attending my 25th High School Reunion this weekend with a number of my fellow graduates. The
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While attending the AALL Futures Summit last week, I got to talk with a number of young members (those within the first five years of the law library profession) and found the discussion to be absolutely wonderful and enlightening. I have a number of topics that I’ll probably blog upon over the
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I’m all packed up and ready to fly off to Chicago tonight to attend the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Future Summit. Actually, everyone can be involved in the keynote by watching the live stream of Andy Hines keynote address (1 PM CDT on 11/3), and by submitting comments and questions
[Guest Post by Elaine Egan]
For decades technology has been an enabler for Knowledge Management. Industries have surrendered to the pressure of a technology solution that doesn’t factor in the real human element of organized information, defined terms and evaluation that lead to actionable knowledge. The founding principles of knowledge management are that unique information held
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Scott Preston and I wrote a piece for ILTA’s Peer to Peer Magazine this month entitled “Building a Bridge Between IT and Library Services.” This was the third piece of our collaboration of helping IT and Library Services (LS) understand that we are working toward the same goals, and that
As I may have mentioned before, I’ve been working on a county law library project lately. One of the details of that project is looking for a new County Law Library Director for Harris County Texas.
Here’s the job description and contact information for the Director’s Job:
Michael Saint-Onge and I had the pleasure of waking everyone up at the AALL conference last week with our 8:45 AM presentation on technology tools used in law firm libraries. Although not everything we’ve listed has practical use in the law firm library setting, we thought we’d have a little fun with running through a
For a project I’m working on, I asked a number of county law librarians to share their mission statements with me in order to see how individual law libraries view their services for the community they serve. In addition to the mission statements that were sent to me, I also attempted to go through a
Hat tip to Steve Lastres for stressing the upcoming change in AALL’s move away from listservs for its Special Interest Sections (SIS), Caucuses and Leadership listservs, to an online eGroup Discussion List starting on August 1st. For those of us in ILTA, the eGroup platform won’t be a big deal, but for those unfamiliar with