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Unmasking Aall’S Idea Special Committee: A Closer Look At The Committee’S Process For Creating Aall’S New Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Policy, Ronald E. Wheeler
Unmasking Aall’S Idea Special Committee: A Closer Look At The Committee’S Process For Creating Aall’S New Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Policy, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
The goal of this column is to describe the process used by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Awareness (IDEA) Special Committee, which provided the foundation and resources for AALL to create the new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Policy. The committee, initially appointed and charged by the 2020 AALL President Emily R. Florio, began meeting in 2020, and started its work with discussions aimed at defining and narrowing the scope of its charge and finding consensus on what we were setting out to accomplish. During this initial stage, our discussions helped us find commonality to …
Calicon Re-Cap, Jason Tubinis, Rachel S. Evans
Calicon Re-Cap, Jason Tubinis, Rachel S. Evans
Presentations
Rachel Evans and Jason Tubinis shared takeaways with other law librarians from the annual Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Conference held in Columbia, SC in the summer of 2019.
Data Visualization: Tips & Tricks, Amy Taylor, Carol A. Watson
Data Visualization: Tips & Tricks, Amy Taylor, Carol A. Watson
Presentations
Data visualization has quickly become a fixture in daily life, from presentations of charts and graphs by media organizations to presentations of data analytics and case relationships by legal database providers. This program will walk participants through the four conceptualizations of data presentation, as well as an exploration on using data visualization to persuade your audience. We will present law library examples for each concept, using free and low cost data visualization tools.
Tidying-Up Your Digital Life: Knowledgement Management In Law School & Beyond, Amy Taylor
Tidying-Up Your Digital Life: Knowledgement Management In Law School & Beyond, Amy Taylor
Presentations
Taylor delivered a session full of tips and tricks for gathering information and keeping it all organized in the age of info-overload. Portions of the session focused on apps, cloud storage, label systems, customizing news alerts and developing your own trusted method for intake and synthesis. Specific applications that were discussed in greater detail included Evernote, Pocket, OneNote and AirTable. Attendee's walked away with ideas about how to best manage their own busy inboxes, news and articles by off-loading working memory anxiety's to a personal system that fits their professional life needs.
Everything From Soup To Nuts: The Full Plate Of Academic Law Library Directorship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Everything From Soup To Nuts: The Full Plate Of Academic Law Library Directorship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Shorter Faculty Works
Inspired by "A Day in My Law Library Life,' Circa 1997," this compilation collects descriptions of a day in the lives of law librarians in 2018. The descriptions provide a current snapshot and historical record of the law library profession, with similarities to, and differences from, the profession of 1997.
Is This The Law Library Or An Episode Of The Jetsons?, Ronald E. Wheeler
Is This The Law Library Or An Episode Of The Jetsons?, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
In this brief essay penned for the inaugural online edition of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Professor Wheeler discusses his vision for the future of law libraries and the future of legal research, legal research instruction, law teaching, and law related technologies.
Stereotype Threat And Law Librarianship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Stereotype Threat And Law Librarianship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
Mr. Wheeler looks at the concept of stereotype threat and discusses ways to confront and combat it in a diverse society. He proposes some simple solutions within the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the law librarianship profession to help diminish the effects of this psychological barrier.
Let's Talk About Race, Ronald E. Wheeler
Let's Talk About Race, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
Despite other scholars’ suggestions that law librarianship and the American Association of Law Libraries lack diversity, Mr. Wheeler examines numerical and anecdotal data indicating that efforts to promote racial and ethnic diversity within AALL and the profession are beginning to show positive results.
Aall Diversity Redelineated, Ronald E. Wheeler
Aall Diversity Redelineated, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
There are other types of diversity beyond race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Professor Wheeler explores various ways that law librarians experience different types of diversity in law librarianship. Through anecdotes, Wheeler demonstrates that in many ways all law librarians both contribute to and benefit from diversity in our profession.
Climb High: High Altitude Mountaineering Lessons For Librarians, Georgia Briscoe
Climb High: High Altitude Mountaineering Lessons For Librarians, Georgia Briscoe
Publications
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