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Telling Our Stories At Ifla’S 2019 Meeting In Athens, Greece, Anne Burnett
Telling Our Stories At Ifla’S 2019 Meeting In Athens, Greece, Anne Burnett
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Anne Burnett summarizes the 85th World Legal Information Congress (WLIC) and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ (IFLA) annual meeting held at the Megaron Convention Center, located in the Kolonaki neighborhood of Athens, Greece. Specially Burnett reviews two IFLA sponsored programs held August 26 - 27, 2019.
DipLawMatic Dialogues is the official blog of the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Group of the American Association of Law Libraries. The FCIL-SIS serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on foreign, comparative and international law and legal research. This blog is intended …
Calicon Re-Cap, Jason Tubinis, Rachel S. Evans
Calicon Re-Cap, Jason Tubinis, Rachel S. Evans
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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.
Conference Recap: #Calicon19, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
Conference Recap: #Calicon19, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
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Evans and Tubinis gave a quick review of their favorite sessions from the Computer Assisted Legal Instruction conference in summer 2019 to an audience of law librarians and special library association members.
Quick Question: What About Conferences?, Rachel S. Evans
Quick Question: What About Conferences?, Rachel S. Evans
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Rachel Evans targets other merging technical services librarians in this blog post for new members. The post shares personal experience with conferences and other advice as well as offers other members to contribute their own advice and memories in response.
TechScans is a blog to share the latest trends and technology tools for technical services law librarians. The official blog of the TS-SIS and OBS-SIS AALL groups.
Quick Question: What’S With All Those Acronyms?, Rachel S. Evans, Keelan Weber
Quick Question: What’S With All Those Acronyms?, Rachel S. Evans, Keelan Weber
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Rachel Evans and Keelan Weber break down the key acronyms and related terminology for other new technical services and online bibliographic services special interest section members in this blog post.
TechScans is a blog to share the latest trends and technology tools for technical services law librarians. The official blog of the TS-SIS and OBS-SIS AALL groups.
Data Visualization: Tips & Tricks, Amy Taylor, Carol A. Watson
Data Visualization: Tips & Tricks, Amy Taylor, Carol A. Watson
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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
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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.
Buckets, Kincaid C. Brown
Buckets, Kincaid C. Brown
Law Librarian Scholarship
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.
Ask A Director: Tackling Technology Competencies, Kincaid C. Brown
Ask A Director: Tackling Technology Competencies, Kincaid C. Brown
Law Librarian Scholarship
Question: What technology competencies do librarians and legal information professionals need to assist their organizations as they grapple with issues such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, etc.?
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.