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 the publisher ...
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 seems. Sure, ...
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 minute.) ...
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 ...
I’m currently investigating the whys/hows/best practices of digitizing law journals and creating an institutional repository. (Have I mentioned lately how much I like my new job? Because I really like my new job.) IRs and Open Access are topics that I really like in theory, but have very little actual practice with. So, it’s very ...