It’s been just about a year now since my career change and I’ve just recently perfected my “elevator pitch” type answer when people ask me what I do for a living. Ready? Here is it: I work for non-profit organization that produces open legal educational materials and develops technological solutions for legal education and the Read the full post…
This is probably a bad idea. I mean that two ways. One, I may very well be the only person interested in doing something like this and people looking at this project will think, “That’s dumb, Glassmeyer. Why’d you waste time setting that up?” Two, there is a great probability that this will cause me Read the full post…
My job title has two parts: Outreach Librarian and Faculty Services Librarian. While both parts of this job have separate and distinct duties, they do share the common goal of making the library and its services as accessible as possible to patrons. Law faculty as patrons are…interesting. Their research requests are often much more intricate Read the full post…
Here’s a couple things I believe: There are several providers of free legal information out there that are reliable enough to recommend to my patrons to use. Librarians need to collaborate and communicate more with information vendors – all information vendors…Wexis, ILS providers, independents and non-profits. Most legal research educational materials suck. They’re dry and Read the full post…
Outreach Librarian is in some ways the job title equivalent of “other duties as assigned.” For me, that means that I’m responsible for my library’s blog and other Web 2.0 endeavors. Like many library blogs, ours is on life support, if not officially dead. Library blogs are dead. Blogging is not as easy as it Read the full post…
A funny thing happened on my way to the Chicago Law.gov meeting… A little over a week ago, I got asked to look at local states’ online legal materials offerings so that I could give a brief spiel on them at the Chicago law.gov workshop. (I’ll tell you more about what I found in a Read the full post…
After my recent post on the mergers in the legal information world, Greg Lambert ran with the idea and created expanded graphs for Thomson Reuters and Reed Elsevier. Best of all, in a “Oh I wish I had thought to do that!” move, he uploaded his graphs to Google docs so that anyone can download Read the full post…
