In life, we all wear many hats. As we grow personally and professionally, that collection naturally expands. For law librarians, the expectation to do ‘all the things’ is often the norm. However, what happens when that ever-growing pile becomes too
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Tales from the Stacks: Graphic Novels as tools for Legal Research & Instruction
I love comic books. From modern pieces such as Ryan North’s One World Under Doom, to classics such as Frank Miller’s Daredevil Man Without Fear, or even the lesser-known independent titles such as George R.R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight –a…
Importance of Not Becoming Too Reliant on Generative AI
By Sandy Li
I recently saw an article from The Conversation titled, “It’s Tempting to Offload Your Thinking to AI. Cognitive Science Shows Why That’s a Bad Idea.” This article points out that as more people turn to chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to…
Guest Post: Grim-Dark Fun: How the Warhammer 40k Hobby Makes Me a Better Librarian
Guest post by Hughston Vasil, Reference Law Librarian at the University of Baltimore Law Library.
Benjamin Fincher wrote in a blog post series last October on how Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) has made him approach librarianship with a new lens.…
Truth on Trial: Deepfakes and the Future of Evidence
By Frank Young
The legal profession is confronting a technological shift that strikes at the heart of adjudication: the reliability of evidence. “Deepfakes,” AI-generated or AI-manipulated media that convincingly fabricate a person’s appearance or voice, have moved from online novelty to a real…
Guest Post: Tools for Teaching Information Literacy
This is Part 2 of a two-part series from guest contributor Jamie Aschenbach, a member of the RIPS Research Instruction Committee. Part 1 focused on information literacy.
By Jamie Aschenbach
This blog is the second part of a two-part…
Guest Post: What is Information Literacy?
This is Part 1 of a two-part series from guest contributor Jamie Aschenbach, a member of the RIPS Research Instruction Committee.
By Jamie Aschenbach
In the autumn 2025 semester, I attended several workshops on teaching information literacy at The Ohio…
Bad Bunny’s (and Puerto Rico’s) Grievances: A Look at the Law
With Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl appearance slowly fading in the rearview mirror, I thought it of interest to look at some grievances expressed in art at the performance and in words elsewhere.
The Puerto Rican flag Bad Bunny was carrying…
The CIA World Factbook, the Access to Information Crisis, and the U.S. Role in the World
On February 4, 2026, the CIA posted on their website “Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell.” The short story lauded the World Factbook as “[o]ne of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications” and…
Minding the Generational Gap: Teaching Gen Z Law Students
A couple weeks ago, I gave the IT desk what I thought was a lost flash drive. You can only imagine how surprised I was when the student at the desk said, “I don’t think that’s a USB, that’s a…