Librarians, generally speaking, were the weird kids growing up. Quiet, bookish, more interested in fantasy worlds than the real one. Then we grew up, became librarians and found Our Tribe. I remember how excited I was on my first day of library school when I looked around my classroom and realized that I wasn’t the Read the full post…
Disruption is definitely the hot term du jour. It mostly is a fancy way of saying “change”, but that doesn’t quite do it justice. Go read this wonderful post by Jordan Furlong on “What Disruption Really Means.” Go on. I’ll wait. As with change, many people view disruption as one would a cloud of locusts Read the full post…
I had the great privilege of attending the Law via the Internet conference this week in Ithaca, NY. This conference brings together people from all around the world involved in putting law online – LIIs, academics, non-profits and even some civic minded hackers. For me, this was one of those truly transformative conference experiences and Read the full post…
When I started working for CALI, I swore that this, my personal blog, would not become a series of advertisements for CALI products – I have a blog over on CALI Classcaster to do stuff like that. However, I am making an exception just this once BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT. I have been admittedly in Read the full post…
I love being a librarian. Some of it is because of the big picture/honorable professional stuff that I frequently blog about here. But honestly, I really love the day to day: staffing a ref desk, hunting down a hard to find piece of information, working with law students…Not only do I never wake up in Read the full post…
(Part One of this two part series appears here) I recently attended “The Future of Law Libraries: The Future is Now?” workshop hosted by the Harvard Law School Library and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Even though it was only one day, there were too many things discussed for me to adequately cover Read the full post…
Gentle Reader, I have had an amazing few weeks. The first part I’m almost embarrassed to write about because I am so ridiculously fortunate to have participated in it. My employer sends all new faculty members (yes, including librarians!) to a week long retreat to spend time talking about our first year experiences and what Read the full post…
