Legal Research

Five things every legal practice should know about?

Posted on March 05, 2009

Yes We Scan!

Posted on March 05, 2009

Professional development survey

Posted on March 01, 2009

New blog design

Posted on February 21, 2009
I’ve had a default theme on this blog for awhile now. This was for a few reasons. I had hoped that a student from my web design class would take on the redesign as a project. That did not happen. Since then I’ve been kind of busy, what with the new job and all...

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A day in the life of a librarian: new job edition

Posted on January 29, 2009
So the day in the life of a librarian meme seems a great way to start blogging from my new position at Yale. I got put onto this by The Technological Tortoise (thanks Sarah). A reminder to new readers of this blog, I just started a new job as the Librarian for Emerging Technologies at the [...

Google adding RSS feeds for web search results: mixed emotions

Posted on October 13, 2008
As reported by Search Engine Land, Read Write Web, and others, Google is adding RSS feeds to web search search results. Thay already have RSS feeds available for News, Blogs, Patents, and other searches. While I love using RSS feeds for monitoring the web and use it very effectively for competitive intelligence, marketing, business development, [...

I?m back: but where have I been?

Posted on September 18, 2008
As some of you may have noticed I have been on a little hiatus the last month. But just because I haven’t been writing here doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. Here’s some of the things which have occupied my time: Keeping it real Being a facilitator for the AALL CS-SIS Web 2...

Free criminal records search online - but is it accurate?

Posted on August 07, 2008
Almost two weeks ago a new service called Criminal Searches was brought to my attention. The site, talked about at WisBlawg, AbsTracked, Legal Dockets Online, and even the New York Times, offers free criminal searches throughout the US. Users don’t even have to register or login...

Whither law firm support staff?

Posted on July 29, 2008
Anyone paying attention to the blawgosphere has heard about Virtual Law Partners an attempt at a new-ish (depending on who you ask) model for a virtual law firm. You may have heard about it at Law.com, or on one of many blogs. I’ve read the comments, heard from the well wishers, the doubters, naysayers, and generally [...

Would you like to play a game?

Posted on July 25, 2008
As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, I’ve never really gotten into online virtual worlds like Second Life, and I’ve certainly never gotten into MPORGs (Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games). However posts this week from Libraryman, The Shifted Librarian, and Terri at Creative InfoPro have piqued my interest...

AALL Wrap-Up Awards: Session Law (Librarian) award

Posted on July 22, 2008
The final award, the Session Law (Librarian) award is going to the most memorable, best, or my favorite session at the conference. Winner: Energize! Teleporting to Second Life: Exploring the Legal and Library Communities in a Virtual World, presented by D...

AALL wrap-up awards: You Look Nothing Like Your Avatar award

Posted on July 19, 2008
The You Look Nothing Like Your Avatar award goes to the person/people I was most excited to meet after connecting with them online. Winner(s): in no particular order Tom Boone, Meg Kribble, Bonnie Shucha, Jim Milles, Sarah Glassmeyer, Katie Brown, and Lyonette Louis-Jacques...

AALL wrap-up awards: Let?s Get The Band Back Together award

Posted on July 18, 2008
The Let’s Get The Band Back Together award for the best group, committee, team, or person to work with at the conference or leading up to the conference. I enjoyed working with all the different committees, caucuses, and groups, but the choice was obvious...

AALL wrap-up awards: Mean Girls award

Posted on July 17, 2008
The “Mean Girls” award is not a reference to actual mean girls, but rather the movie Mean Girls. This award is for the event I wasn’t looking forward to going in, but attended based on recommendations, and ended up enjoying. Winner: CONELL Speed Networking I’ve been working in law libraries for over four years now, but this [...

AALL 2008 wrap up thoughts

Posted on July 17, 2008
I very much enjoyed my first AALL conference, and I feel very professionally energized, particularly after the Bloggers meetup. I’ve been trying to do a little more with this blog, and have been struggling with how to accomplish and most importantly how to find the time to accomplish the various things I want to do [...

Martindale.com taps social networking well

Posted on July 09, 2008
Originally saw this on Kevin O’Keefe’s blog, then again on the KM Space blog by Doug Cornelius, Martindale.com appears to be using LinkedIn’s API to allow users to tap into their LinkedIn connections while viewing firm and attorney information...

Countdown to AALL 2008

Posted on July 08, 2008
This weekend the AALL 2008 annual meeting starts in Portland. Word is there will be about 2,000 attendees, and this will be one of the best attended AALL conferences in recent years. I look forward to meeting many law librarians, vendors, and other visitors...

LexMonitor launched, important discussion ensues

Posted on June 26, 2008
Last week, while I was recovering from what could best be described as an intellectual hangover after the SLA conference in Seattle, Kevin O’Keefe from LexBlog released a web tool called LexMonitor. As Kevin describes it: LexMonitor is a free daily review of law blogs and journals highlighting prominent legal discussion as well as the lawyers and [...

Random thoughts and lessons from SLA 2008

Posted on June 20, 2008
So I’m back from Seattle, after a great first conference and just wanted to try to collect some thoughts. Seattle was a great location. Lots of great restaurants near the convention center and hotels, easy to get to the monorail, public library, market, and other interesting locations...

In Seattle for SLA 2008

Posted on June 14, 2008
It’s Vint Cerf and Charlie Rose. It’s Seth Godin. It’s librarians from all over the world. It’s SLA 2008! I’m here in Seattle for the SLA 2008 annual conference. I’m looking forward to a lot of great sessions. Stephen Abrams is launching the SLA Innovation Lab, among other great initiatives...

Qwaq: Second Life for the enterprise

Posted on June 10, 2008
The May issue of Smart Libraries had an interesting article about Qwaq Forums, a virtual space for organizations. Many companies have been exploring the use of virtual worlds like Second Life to connect with customers, and some have even used it for virtual meeting spaces...

Limited creative juices lead to writer?s block

Posted on June 04, 2008
I have never been a blogger who posted very often, but in the last few weeks I’ve fallen off even more than usual. This is in direct violation of one of my 2008 goals which was to post on a more regular basis. Although it’s not as if I haven’t been busy...

Finding the right tool for the job

Posted on May 17, 2008
Jeremiah Owyang had a great post yesterday about how he stays organized. Anyone who follows him knows how active he is. He twitters often, posts daily on his blog, and has thousands of pictures on Flickr. So how does he stay organized? He puts pen to paper in a Moleskine...

AALL 2008 Portland video finally posted online

Posted on May 09, 2008
This week has been all about the upcoming AALL conference for me. It’s included meetings, projects, and extracurricular work. All of this is good, but it has been keeping me busy, and that’s way my blog posts this week are focused on the upcoming conference...

AALL dine-arounds at some of Portland?s best spots

Posted on May 05, 2008
The information for the AALL no-host dinners, also known as the dine-arounds has been posted the local arrangements committee website. There are a lot of really great options for dinner. Blogger and local law librarian Laura Orr is hosting a dinner at Dan and Louis Oyster Bar...

The science of search: time for a librarian role in e-discovery?

Posted on April 28, 2008
A column by Craig Ball in the April issue of Law Technology News, The Science of Search, argues that ”lawyers need to learn more about the science of search as part of our legal and continuing education.” As someone tasked with educating attorneys about the science of search, I will say hear hear! But I do think [...

Off topic: participating in a viral marketing campaign

Posted on April 14, 2008
I’m something of a movie buff and I love to learn about what films are going into production, director and casting news, etc. One of my favorite blogs for this kind of news is FirstShowing. net. Back in December they had a really interesting post about the viral marketing campaign for the upcoming Batman movie, The [...

How and should bloggers be credentialed as news gatherers?

Posted on April 02, 2008
Sports fans among you may already be following the controversy involving the status of bloggers covering the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, and their ability to enter the team’s locker room after games. The story is basically that back in February a blogger named Tim MacMahon, who blogs about the Mavs for the Dallas Morning News, wrote [...

Potential breakthrough in personal information management strategy

Posted on March 28, 2008
Longtime readers of this blog might remember that one of my goals this year has been to come up with a comprehensive personal information management strategy, and to blog about it periodically. Towards that end I am currently reading the book Personal Information Management edited by William Jones and Jaime Teevan...

Ambrogi discusses ?online legal research revolution?

Posted on March 18, 2008
Robert Ambrogi has written a great article over Law.com called Online Legal Research Revolution. He discusses the recent release of free legal research tools like AltLaw, PreCYdent, and The Public Library of Law, all partially powered by the release of federal case opinions by Public...

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