I got my class evaluations for my 1L Legal Research course yesterday. Happily, they were all positive with regards to my teaching contribution to the course. So I must totally know what I’m doing, right? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING. Okay, I’m being slightly hyperbolic. I know how to run a classroom. I can create ...
My library reading room is filled with law students furiously studying for finals, so I guess that means it’s almost the Kwanzchrismukah gift giving season. Instead of a traditional “gifts to give the geeks in your life” blog post, I thought I’d cobble together some library or legal or information related charities that you may ...
Who says professional development has to wait until Summer? Registration is now open for Lawberry Camp Midwinter, taking place January 16, 2010 at Harvard Law School Library. Visit the new and improved Lawberry Camp website to register and for details: http://lawberrycamp.com/ Lawberry Camp Midwinter will be an all day affair. The day will be divided up into ...
I am made weary by the reports of the death of libraries. And by “made weary”, I mean “aggravated to Hell and Gone” by them. I guess I could understand if it were coming from outside of LibraryLand – and to be sure, there are plenty of those voices, from the strangers that ask me ...
This blog post can summarized by a simple question: Why do we delegate the reporting and indexing of the American legal information system to commericial vendors using a proprietary system? Here’s the historical background/two minute summary I give to 1Ls and Pro Ses approaching legal research for the first time: (And if you’re a law librarian, lawyer, ...
I took a picture of myself every day for a year. Why? Believe you me, I asked myself that question several times throughout the process. I had a couple reasons why I started it. They ranged from wanting an excuse to play with my new camera to needing a creative outlet to trying to become comfortable ...
Earlier this week, Google changed their logo into a barcode to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the first barcode patent. (As an aside, it’s amazing how many anniversaries, birthdays, other events from history, etc. I learn about from the Google Logo. ) That, combined with seeing this pic of Maurice that Michael P. posted in ...
In politics, religion, and yes, even libraries, there’s always a couple of extremists that make more moderate types cringe at their pronouncements. “[L]ibraries that don’t offer texting are basically invisible to me…not being available by SMS is akin to not having a webpage.” (source) “It’s really do-or-die when it comes to SMS and libraries.” (source) “Being familiar & ...
Well, I did it. I made the leap and got a “big girl phone.” In my case, I got an iPhone. It’s been a few weeks, and I’m torn between being surprised that I did it and amazed at how I’d ever been able to live without it. Until the iPhone, I had been using a ...
I started my morning by putting the finishing touches on my Promotion and Tenure Dossier. I finished up my day by presenting a Webinar for CALI on Alternatives to Course Management Systems. The former means that I spent the almost every free moment in the past week organizing and compiling all of my professional activities ...