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
Toby Brown and I presented at the joint Houston Association of Law Libraries (HALL) and the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries (SWALL) on mobile and tablet apps. This is an update of a presentation that Barbara Fullerton, Scott Riggins and I did last October at the Texas SLA program. I promised
“Build it and they will come” is the classic line from Field of Dreams. “Don’t build it, because THEY will come after you” is the idea that Sarah Glassmeyer is bucking in setting up the LisVendor.Info wiki of law librarian / legal publishing vendor relations.
The initial organization of the website is as follows. Feel
I’m still cleaning out my in-box at my day job after a week of traveling between New York and Chicago for a couple of great law firm library meetings/conferences. I was going over some of my notes from the Ark Group conference on Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Libraries & Information Service Centers (which
Good morning from Chicago! As many of you may know, there is a meeting going on up here at the McDonald’s resort (The Lodge) where 40 or so vendors, law librarians, and stakeholders are meeting to discuss some of the issues that are currently affecting the relationship of the overall industry. You probably know it
I have the wonderful job of researching dozens (maybe hundreds?) of different legal rags everyday. There are definitely some good legal news resources out there, and we thought we’d let you share a few of your favorites with us. For example, I enjoy the Osmosys Legal Industry Monitor for generic legal news (plus it is
[Note: Please Welcome Guest Blogger Rich Evans]
After graduating law school back in 2007 and practicing in a small firm, local government and solo settings, I decided to become a law librarian. So far, it has been a great fit in my life, much in part to the law librarianship program at Catholic University
Big firm Library Director, Jean O’Grady, launched her new blog “Dewey B Strategic” yesterday, and immediately went after the inefficient processes of legal publishing vendors and says that it is time to shift those costs back to the publishers. Anyone that has ever talked with O’Grady knows that she’s not afraid to step
We’ve all probably sat through those “60 Apps in 60 Minutes” programs at a conference and watched as a bevy of applications flew past us on the screen. Those are cool, but what how many of those do we actually use when we get back to our office? So, we’ve asked you to share with
We have some interesting contributions this week on what the legal industry needs more of right now. I was a little disappointed that my friend Emily didn’t follow through on her dibs on “cowbell” – just because I really wanted her to say something like “The legal industry’s got a fever and the only prescription is more