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Full-Text Articles in Law Librarianship
Using The “Scholarship As Conversation” Frame To Explain The Importance Of Inclusive Citation, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Using The “Scholarship As Conversation” Frame To Explain The Importance Of Inclusive Citation, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Library Staff Online Writings
It’s been nearly two years since the largest civil rights movement – the protests stemming from the murder of George Floyd by a police officer – swept the United States. That means it has also been nearly two years since law schools across the country released statements and created taskforces and enacted initiatives to inject principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into the school halls.
On The Academic Librarian Pay Disparity, Olivia Smith Schlinck
On The Academic Librarian Pay Disparity, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Library Staff Online Writings
Last month, I posted to this blog the results of my study comparing the salaries of tenure-track law professors and law librarians who teach required, credit-bearing classes. The reaction was overwhelming; clearly, the proof that law librarians were underpaid – something many librarians had assumed for many years – hit a chord within the profession. Librarians across the country contacted me publicly and privately to express their shock (or lack thereof), their frustration, their personal anecdotes about being underpaid and struggling to make ends meet. Eventually, this culminated in an event hosted by the AALL Research Crits Caucus on Monday, …
Leveraging Interactive Maps As A Resource Discovery Tool: Envisioning A Repository, Collection Or Series With A Map-Driven Interface, Rachel S. Evans, Keelan Weber
Leveraging Interactive Maps As A Resource Discovery Tool: Envisioning A Repository, Collection Or Series With A Map-Driven Interface, Rachel S. Evans, Keelan Weber
Sandbox Series
Those of us with Digital Commons sites may already have download based live-maps embedded on one or more landing pages of our collections. What if we created a map for end-users to search our series in new ways? In this sandbox, two members of the LSRD-SIS executive board come together to share a show-and-tell-style tour of 3 map-based interfaces for a variety of legal resources, from in-house developed examples to a larger database provider like HeinOnline. Through these examples, we hope attendees will engage in brainstorming ways we could creatively integrate maps to leverage them as a more user-centered discovery …
Creating Selectedworks Faculty Profiles, Miguel J. Colon Jr.
Creating Selectedworks Faculty Profiles, Miguel J. Colon Jr.
Sandbox Series
Faculty profiles at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law showcase various categories of works beyond traditional journal articles. Creating SelectedWorks profiles has helped promote faculty research and scholarly activity. Some of these categories include media appearances, op-eds, and presentations. This session will discuss the workflow of collecting and promoting faculty scholarship through SelectedWorks.
Pronouns In Institutional Repository Metadata, Emma Boisitz
Pronouns In Institutional Repository Metadata, Emma Boisitz
Sandbox Series
In institutional repositories, pronouns may appear in descriptive metadata. This presentation will cover the importance of using correct pronouns, explore best practices for finding and utilizing pronouns in descriptive metadata workflows, and suggest resources for such efforts.
Academic Law Librarians Are Paid 47% Less Than Their Faculty Counterparts, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Academic Law Librarians Are Paid 47% Less Than Their Faculty Counterparts, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Library Staff Online Writings
In December Joe Fore, the co-director of the Legal Writing program at the University of Virginia School of Law, posted to Twitter a thread comparing tenure track and legal writing salaries. In comparing four public schools, he discovered that the average starting salary for a tenure track professor was $173,000 while the average salary for all legal writing faculty was $111,000. A few academic law librarians saw the tweet and replied that someone should do the same for law librarians, too.
Introducing The Dispute Financing Library – A Free Online Resource, Ingrid Mattson
Introducing The Dispute Financing Library – A Free Online Resource, Ingrid Mattson
Library Staff Online Writings
NYU Law School’s Center on Civil Justice has developed an online collection of documents and media related to third-party litigation funding called the Dispute Financing Library. The Center’s goal is to create a collection of material on the topic and includes statutes, case law, journal articles, bar reports, news, best practices, and more.
“Pandemic Brain,” Burnout, And 2022, Olivia Smith Schlinck
“Pandemic Brain,” Burnout, And 2022, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Library Staff Online Writings
In my first post, I wrote about the big feelings our students might be grappling with and how to approach the semester carefully, with kindness and grace. Lately I’ve been asking myself: how do we do the same for ourselves? Something about this moment – this month, this semester, this year, you pick – feels. . . off. People are stressed, depressed, or entirely burnt out. People are quitting their jobs at higher-than-average rates and having trouble focusing on their work, feeling overwhelmed and distracted. It’s almost 2022 and people are still struggling with processing 2020.
Improving Special Collections Discovery With Dcx Digital Exhibits, Rachel S. Evans
Improving Special Collections Discovery With Dcx Digital Exhibits, Rachel S. Evans
Sandbox Series
This short paper and presentation is an update on the previously presented in July of 2021 titled “Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants” with Savanna Nolan. Since that presentation, UGA Law Library served as a beta tester for Elsevier’s DCX – the Digital Commons exhibit solution. Launched late summer 2021, the exhibits that went live from UGA Law pleasantly surprised librarians who were lucky enough to discover that researchers were already retrieving the new digital exhibit content in their search engine results. This short paper shares the reasons why I have preferred working in DCX to build digital …
Digitizing The Utah Code Annotated, Valeri Craigle
Digitizing The Utah Code Annotated, Valeri Craigle
Sandbox Series
When Utah’s three law libraries closed their doors in March 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, legal practitioners, researchers, and self-represented litigants lost access to the superseded Utah Code Annotated (UCA), which existed only in print form at these three libraries. Access to the UCA was restored in early 2021 through an LSTA grant-funded project that digitized UCA volumes and pocket parts from 1943-1995 and disseminated these materials via an open access Digital Commons collection.
Dare To Dream: How Would You Teach 1ls Legal Research With No Restrictions?, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Dare To Dream: How Would You Teach 1ls Legal Research With No Restrictions?, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Library Staff Online Writings
When I started in my current role as an instructional librarian, I was given space to make the changes I thought necessary to improve an already-changing legal research program. I’ve made changes – some small, some more major – in both the 1L and upper-level research curriculum, but there is more to do. In particular, I’m not entirely satisfied with how we teach legal research to 1Ls.
Preserving Podcasts In Institutional Repositories, Erik Moore, Valerie Collins
Preserving Podcasts In Institutional Repositories, Erik Moore, Valerie Collins
Sandbox Series
In response to the 2020 global pandemic, the University of Minnesota Archives sought to gather digital content documenting the public health crisis and institutional response to COVID-19. Staff identified university-produced podcasts from several departments as information-rich contemporaneous content that was also at high risk of loss. Over the course of this work, we determined that these podcasts should be preserved in our institutional repository, as we came to see University podcasts more broadly as a digital serial publication. Our focus is now on the ongoing maintenance of serial digital publications in a repository and demonstrating the preservation of podcasts as …
The Benefits Of Having Your Own Sandbox, Joe Cera
The Benefits Of Having Your Own Sandbox, Joe Cera
Sandbox Series
No abstract provided.
Getting Started With Coding, John Beatty
Getting Started With Coding, John Beatty
Sandbox Series
Over the past several years law librarians have become increasingly involved not only with their institutional repositories but also with automating aspects of their workflows for all sorts of common tasks related to faculty scholarship, law reviews, and more. In this sandbox John will share his story, share a wealth of resources for other librarians interested in learning to code as it relates to their roles with their IR, and engage in conversations with attendees to illustrate the variety of paths librarians have taken to develop this unique skill set.
Law Students, Covid-19, And Big Feelings, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Law Students, Covid-19, And Big Feelings, Olivia Smith Schlinck
Library Staff Online Writings
It’s Fall 2021 and well . . . we’re back. Or rather – some of us are. Along with a patchwork of universities requiring vaccinations and/or masks for students comes a patchwork of modes of instruction: fully online, hybrid, fully in-person (and subject to change). Some employees have shifted to occasional work-from-home models while others are required to be in-person every day. It’s all very complicated. Honestly, right now everything is complicated. With big, complicated situations come big, complicated feelings, and our students’ feelings are certainly that: big.
Modernizing Repositories, Step One: Build Some Bridges Using Identifiers, Joseph Cera
Modernizing Repositories, Step One: Build Some Bridges Using Identifiers, Joseph Cera
Sandbox Series
This project attempts to start addressing the lack of connection between repositories. While proper connections are far down the road, the first step is to be prepared for connections. This session will discuss how Berkeley Law is preparing data through persistent identifiers.
Pitch Perfect: Achieving Faculty And Administrative Support For Techie Projects, Elizabeth Manriquez
Pitch Perfect: Achieving Faculty And Administrative Support For Techie Projects, Elizabeth Manriquez
Sandbox Series
Technology can be daunting, but understanding difficult concepts is essential for a successful institutional repository manager. When beginning an innovative IR project, the “how” may seem the most difficult piece. However, understanding your own project is just the beginning. How do you then explain and sell your project to a group lacking IR expertise? This article will discuss the complications and best practices associated with garnering support from vital faculty and campus administrators for IR projects centering on technological concepts unfamiliar to them.
Methods For Populating Scholarly Profiles With Repository Data, Pamela Brannon
Methods For Populating Scholarly Profiles With Repository Data, Pamela Brannon
Sandbox Series
The first sandbox session of the second series will feature Pam Brannon, Coordinator for Faculty Services at the Georgia State University College of Law Library, sharing "Methods for Populating Scholarly Profiles With Repository Data". Over the past couple of years law librarians have become increasingly involved in assisting law faculty with setting up and populating scholarly profiles, including ORCID profiles. In this session, Pam will discuss several methods for using faculty publications metadata housed in a repository to populate these profiles.
Leveraging Bepress’S New Api For Metadata Transformations, Aaron Retteen
Leveraging Bepress’S New Api For Metadata Transformations, Aaron Retteen
Sandbox Series
Getting metadata and content into our Digital Commons institutional repository was always straightforward, but getting information from the repository was always limited and challenging. With the recent release of an API, Digital Commons repositories can be engaged with in exciting new ways. For this series, I’ll discuss my summer project of taking metadata stored into the repository and transforming it into clean metadata for importation to our university’s research information system.
Creating Topical Exhibits In Digital Commons, Linda Tesar
Creating Topical Exhibits In Digital Commons, Linda Tesar
Sandbox Series
When the William & Mary Law School Equity and Inclusion Exhibits Committee decided to begin hosting a series of physical exhibits with online components, the Wolf Law Library staff eagerly offered the scholarship repository as the best place to house the online exhibits collection. In late February, the library launched the first digital exhibit, “Black History at W&M Law.” In this talk, Linda will discuss the repository structure and format W&M chose, how different material was integrated into the collection, and give some insight into what worked and what didn’t.
Reflections On Critical Librarianship And Creating A Controlled Vocabulary, Olivia R. Smith Schlinck
Reflections On Critical Librarianship And Creating A Controlled Vocabulary, Olivia R. Smith Schlinck
Sandbox Series
During the summer of 2020, several members of the Cardozo Law Library collaborated to create a controlled vocabulary (CV) for LARC, our institutional repository. During the creation of this CV, there was no explicit intention to consider critical librarianship teachings while making decisions about what words “belonged” in the CV nor in drafting policies relating to the CV. This presentation will reflect on how beginning the project with critical librarianship in mind may have impacted the CV and will attempt to consider changes to the current policies to mitigate biases that are undoubtedly embedded in the CV as it stands.
Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants, Rachel Evans, Savanna Nolan
Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants, Rachel Evans, Savanna Nolan
Sandbox Series
The first sandbox session will feature Rachel Evans, Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian, and Savanna Nolan, Faculty & Instructional Services Librarian, from UGA Law Library: As part of larger efforts university-wide to highlight diversity leading up to the 60th anniversary of desegregation at UGA, the law school focused on identifying materials including photographs, class directors and news articles related to the school's earliest minority graduates. Although a physical exhibit began to take shape in the summer of 2020, limited building access presented challenges in sharing aspects of the exhibit with the community. Rachel and Savanna will share the method …
Review: Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, And The Last Trial Of Harper Lee By Casey Cep, Christine Anne George
Review: Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, And The Last Trial Of Harper Lee By Casey Cep, Christine Anne George
Library Staff Articles
Review of Casey Cep's non-fiction book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. Highly recommended.
Shepard's And Keycite Are Flawed (Or Maybe It's You), Alan Wolf, Lynn Wishart
Shepard's And Keycite Are Flawed (Or Maybe It's You), Alan Wolf, Lynn Wishart
Library Staff Articles
No abstract provided.
Moving Into Management From The Outside, Lynn Wishart
Moving Into Management From The Outside, Lynn Wishart
Library Staff Articles
When accepting a promotion from outside the organization, the new manager must understand what is being given up and left behind, and must also realize clearly what expectations the new library holds. In the new position, the outside manager must articulate goals and find common ground with supervisors and subordinates. The take-charge period should be used for judicious decision making and intense learning.