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A Law Journal Blog

09.17.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

We have two law journals here at UK Law.  The Kentucky Law Journal and the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture and Natural Resources Law (KJEANRL).   The name of the second is admittedly a mouthful and a very recent change, made in part to broaden the types of articles published.  Now that a new name ...

Alternatives to Wexis Course Management Software

09.13.2009 · Posted in professional development

This Friday (Sept. 18) I’ll be doing a FREE webinar for CALI on free alternatives to Westlaw’s TWEN and Lexis’ Blackboard.   It starts at 3pm EDT and should last about a half hour.  (Registration Form)  Also, long term readers may remember, I wrote a blog post about this last year.  I’ll be covering some of ...

Henderson Valley Eggs

09.05.2009 · Posted in meta

I’ve been out of commisssion this week with the flu, so I missed really getting into the grand unveiling of my newest endeavor, Henderson Valley Eggs.  What is HVE?  It’s sort of an online magazine, it’s sort of a blog…the term we’re going with is “Information Collective.”  HVE is written and co-edited by 6 “spring ...

Sturm und Drang and Strategic Directions

08.30.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

I’m starting to wonder how  many times I can say to myself “…so that happened.” in a week. I’ve just survived my first week of the fall semester.  And if you’re one of my students reading this, let me assure you that the first week back transition is just as hard on law school faculty and ...

Blast from the Past

08.24.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

As many of you know, part of my gig here at UK is to manage the Interlibrary Loan operations for the law library.  And by “manage”, I mean do it all.   It’s a lot of work, but I enjoy most of it.  And occasionally, it reaps some fun rewards. Today I pulled and copied an ...

Students, Social Media, and You

08.17.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

In a ritual repeated in law school libraries around the country this month, I’m getting things tidied up around here in anticipation for the new school year and the arrival of students.  Some of this took place online – cleaning up our library Facebook page, rebooting our blog so that it matches the look and ...

Experiment: Using TWEN for ILL management

08.14.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

In January of 2009, my library had a bit of a reshuffle in the Public Services department due to a position loss.   I began handling the Interlibrary Loan responsibilities for the Law School community in addition to my reference duties. Now, I had never really done ILLs before, but fortunately the learning curve isn’t too ...

Tragedy at the Louisville Free Public Library

08.05.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

Having spent pretty much my entire life within spitting distance of the Ohio River, I’ve become accustomed to floods as a regular part of life. However, with river floods, you generally get some warning.  Weathermen can track the flood’s arrival and give a pretty good guestimate at what the levels are going to be.  As ...

So That Happened…#aall2009 Wrapup

08.02.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around AALL 2009 and figure out what I want to say and how I want to say it.  It’s appearing that it’s not going to happen, at least not before I forget something important.  There are some things I really need to cover and explain, but there’s a ...

Are you monitoring your online indentity?

07.16.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

I got the most awesomely creepy email from academia.edu this morning… “Hi Sarah, Someone just searched for you on Google, and found your page on Academia.edu. The search term they used was: “sarah glassmeyer university of kentucky” Follow the link below to see your page in the Google results for this term: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=sarah+glassmeyer+university+of+kentucky&aq=f&oq= To see all your keywords, follow the link below: http://uky.academia.edu/SarahGlassmeyer/Keywords To ...