When I started working for CALI, I swore that this, my personal blog, would not become a series of advertisements for CALI products – I have a blog over on CALI Classcaster to do stuff like that. However, I am making an exception just this once BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT. I have been admittedly in …
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Hello RSS Subscribers… Just in case you like to keep abreast of my writing, I wrote a post for my employer’s Spotlight blog on ebooks and recent developments about them. It’s called The Enhanced Book. Check it out! Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidortez/
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It seems that every conversation about educational reform lately mentions the high price of casebooks (for law students) and textbooks (for other types of students.) I mean, casebooks were expensive when I was in law school ten years ago…so of course they’re expensive now, right? Holy cats, y’all, I had no idea. Maybe you have …
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It has been mentioned to me, on more than one occasion by more than one person, “I never thought I’d see you work for a vendor!” Well, yes. I have thought the same thing myself. Life is a rich tapestry of surprises, I guess. Before we get too far into this, I probably should mention …
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Hey, remember last year at this time when I said that I wanted to have a really boring 2011 and not do anything too “interesting.” Um. Yeah. That didn’t quite happen. The past year hasn’t been a bad one by any stretch of the imagination. Actually, it’s been quite good and huge improvement over 2010. …
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I meant to write this almost two months ago, but if you are a regular, Gentle Reader, you know that I’ve been a little busy. I won’t bore you with the list of Big Life Changes again. SO. Anyway, a little over six months in, and I’m declaring LISvendor.info to be a fabulous success. Granted, …
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Hello RSS subscribers…. I have a new blog post up at the CALI spotlight blog about Open Access week and legal scholarship. It’s called “Why We Fight.” This isn’t so much a guest post as part of my job at CALI…we (the staff) are going to blog about issues that are relevant to what …
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In an alternative universe, I’m a Gov Docs librarian at a large state school turning young minds onto the joy of statistics and 1950s government created comic books about how to deal with nuclear war fallout and communists. But this is this universe. And I’m me. And the closest I get to come to that …
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October 7, 2011 is Ada Lovelace Day, an annual celebration of women in the STEM disciplines. It was created after a psychological study showed that women need role models to believe that they can do something. I love this day. Obviously, it’s a lot of fun to give props to people and tell them how …
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Everything sucks. Vendors suck. Free law sucks. Publishing sucks. Bloggers suck. AALL sucks. ALA sucks. The ABA sucks. Libraries suck. Librarians suck. Google sucks. Facebook sucks. Conferences suck. Law firms suck. Lawyers suck. Clients suck. Outsourcing sucks. LegalZoom sucks. The court system sucks. Technology sucks. Software sucks. Hardware sucks. Users suck. Computer nerds suck. THE …
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