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Avoiding Bandwidth Overload: Apps To Maxamize Time And Accomplish More, Geraldine R. Kalim, Rachel S. Evans

Presentations

Accomplishing goals and keeping to deadlines on both big and small projects can be challenging to balance with our recurring tasks. Making effective use of a few on-point tools can be the key to avoiding burnout and making sure your personal bandwidth doesn’t throttle. This session will use the two presenter’s preferred platforms to show specific examples of how to manage workflows using a selection of apps to tackle business as usual, short and long term work, and major special projects. You will learn which tool is best for generating documentation, collaborating with multiple individuals, syncing with other apps, and …

Messy Data Secrets Revealed: How We Digitized Theses And Improved Discovery, Anne Burnett, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

The article offers information on how the digitized thesis and improved discovery. Topics include tracing its origins from accession and early digitization through to continuing consolidation and cleanup of decades' worth of data, the benefits of providing open access to the scholarship in the theses, and the inclusion in the institutional repository (IR) has been advantageous.

Review Of The Future Academic Librarian's Toolkit: Finding Success On The Job Hunt And In Your First Job, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Review of Hodge, Megan (Ed.) (2019). The Future Academic Librarian's Toolkit: Finding Success on the Job Hunt and in Your First Job. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Program Report: Innovation Tournament, Wendy Moore

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Wendy Moore summarizes the Innovation Tournament from the recent AALL annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in July 2019.

Technical Services Law Librarian (ISSN 0195-4857) is an official publication of the Technical Services Special Interest Section and the Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries. https://www.aallnet.org/tssis/resources-publications/technical-services-law-librarian/

Program Report Law Librarians And Online Security: Transforming Talk Into Action, Sharon Bradley

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Sharon Bradley summarizes the Law Librarians and Online Security session from the recent AALL annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in July 2019.

Technical Services Law Librarian (ISSN 0195-4857) is an official publication of the Technical Services Special Interest Section and the Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries. https://www.aallnet.org/tssis/resources-publications/technical-services-law-librarian/

Maximizing Your Faculty's Scholarly Impact: Techniques To Increase Findability, Carol A. Watson, Thomas J. Striepe, Caroline Osborne

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Increasing the impact of faculty scholarship is consistently a top priority at law schools. Law librarians are uniquely positioned to offer a significant amount of assistance to faculty and law administration in achieving this goal and enhancing the reputation of the law school. Understanding the differences between the tools and techniques available to assist on this topic can be a complex endeavor. This program focused on providing the best strategies to increase the impact of faculty scholarship. Speakers discussed the various social media platforms available to upload scholarship, as well as how to increase findability in search results and take …

Setting Priorities, Meeting Deadlines, And Managing Projects For Law Librarians, Thomas J. Striepe, Deborah Schander, George Taoultsides, Austin Williams

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Have you ever looked at your “To Do” list and thought, “I have back-to-back meetings this afternoon and three team projects due in the next couple weeks. I keep putting off writing that article, and, oh look! I just got an emergency email that’s going to take up my morning. How am I supposed to get all of this done on time?” If so, you aren’t alone. Some of the most fundamental skills a librarian can develop are learning to manage projects and competing priorities. In this program, the speakers will highlight some of the tools, software, and personal ideas …

Cooking Up Cauldrons Of Content: Recipes For Video Tutorials, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Explores how libraries can benefit from creating video tutorials as a means of library instruction. Includes recommendations for hardware and software, tips such as liaising with stakeholders, best practices for video tutorial content and length, tracking tutorial effectiveness, and more. Offers example combinations of hardware and software based on the type of tutorial and varying library budget sizes.

Beyond The E-Reader: Alternative Uses For The Ipad In Libraries, Rachel Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Explores how libraries use iPads to improve productivity and maximize staff time. Includes recommendations for using iPads as web development, video conferencing, mobile service point, online polling and self-checkout tools, as well as suggestions for specific productivity apps,

Digital Commons And Ssrn: Turning Perceived Conflict Into Real Synergy, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson

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Covers the history of SSRN and the development of institutional repositories, how to positively address faculty concerns about losing SSRN download statistics, statistical analysis of downloads on each platform and research behavior, and an overview of the strengths and advantages of each platform.