June is here and that means that it’s librarian conference season. (Mothers, lock up your daughters and unsorted books…the librarians are coming to town!) For me, it also means that it’s unconference season, because I am coordinating an unconference at every conference that I’m attending. This post is an omnibus publicity post for all of ...
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 ...
LibPunk Essay Contest Entry (See LibPunk.info for details) What Does LibPunk Mean to Me? by Sarah Glassmeyer, Age 34 When Kathryn Greenhill coined the term LibPunk, she was basing it on the (then) new EduPunk movement which was characterized by a DIY ethos and a rejection of government and corporate interests in the classroom. What did that ...
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 ...
Earlier this week, I saw a report about Thomson closing Banks-Baldwin’s Cleveland office. That got me thinking about all the mergers that have taken place in the legal information world over time and, being of the USA Today Infographic Generation, I was hoping that there would be a visual representation out there of them, similar ...
(Hey, remember when I said that I was taking a break from blogging? Well, I lied. I’m a liar. And, more to the point, a procrastinator. So I am blogging instead of packing for my imminent move to Indiana. La!) As I alluded to in my last post, we are at a magical time in ...
OR: Rockstars and Punk Rock and What Does It Have to do With Libraries? This post is an attempt for me to coalesce some thoughts that have been bubbling in my head for a few weeks now. It’s going to be messy, but I want to write them out since the next few weeks ...
I recently finished my last bibliographic instruction session at UK. (When you are leaving a job, every “last” seems to take on special significance…My last Bibliogrpahic Instruction session. My last coffee run to the student union. My last creepy public patron..*sniff* the memories…but I digress.) Anyhoo, it was for the Advanced Legal Research course and ...
I have said many times – and will continue to say – that I have been very lucky in that I have had some awesome mentors over the course of my career. I know I’m lucky because I hear my peers complain that they would like to have one and although I currently have a ...