“We’re very ‘Green’ here.
The library’s e-book collection is actually powered
by incinerating all those books behind you.”

I look around my desk at work and I tick off all the technology I have in front of me.

  • Desktop PC w/side-by-side monitors … check
  • smart phone … check
  • iPad … check
  • e-book reader … check
  • laptop

Comedian Daniel Tosh holds his book burnings every Tuesday, but thought that he needs to be “greener” in his desire to rid the world of books and push people back to watching his show on Comedy Central.

He also suggests a way that your local governments could make a little money back. Since we now

[Please Welcome Guest Blogger Scott Preston]

Convergence – the approach toward a definite value, a definite point, a common view or opinion.
Over ten years ago we, in IT, talked about convergence. Back then, convergence often referred to the merging of data and telephone infrastructures, and when first introduced, this idea was taboo (this

Okay… stop laughing at the title.  There is a perception of law librarians as being too quite and sitting behind a reference desk waiting on someone to come us and ask a question that they can answer.  But, if you go to an SLA or AALL meeting, you’ll see a different side of law librarianship.

I attended a wonderful conference in New York yesterday (and am subsequently writing this post from LaGuardia airport during a snowstorm and hoping to make it back to Houston today.)  The Ark Group/Managing Partner Magazine’s 4th Annual “Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library & Information Service Centers” focused on topics ranging from Libraries getting