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I have been unhappily surprised by the apparent lack of usage data available to academic law libraries. After talking to some folks at the MAALL annual meeting, my own experience seems to be a common
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An Illuminated Path
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. One of the things I’ve been looking forward to in my new role is teaching. The calendar has rolled around and I was asked
XPath To Scrape A News Feed
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I am sensing a disturbance in the Force. Where things like Google alerts used to be reliable sources of news, their reliance on deteriorating search is becoming visible. Websites are also starting to pull their RSS
Picking Fights
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I got a new driver’s license. It is my ninth one, as I’ve moved around a bit and all the jurisdictions in which I’ve lived have required you to get a new one. The visit to
Standardizing on Duo Multi-Factor
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I have been fiddling with my multi-factor authentication, probably more than I should. I had been using Duo Mobile on Android. Then my workplace required me to add the Akamai app because they use Akamai. I
Format Fixation
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I attended a conference focused on online learning. I’ve been making a push to firm up my understanding about teaching and this was an accelerator. It was noted more than once how dissonant it was to
SSL Certificate Issuance and Cloudflare
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My websites and apps are behind the Cloudflare firewall. I use the web application firewall (WAF) to block anything and everything that shouldn’t be coming through. One periodic request was the quarterly re-issuance of Let’s Encrypt
Eating Google’s Takeout from GMail
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For better or for worse, Google’s constant nagging about my shrinking storage space worked. I had already dropped most of their other products but have been using Photos to share images, and Mail has been my
Dream Work
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I was still traveling so I missed the AALL announcement about this artificial intelligence (AI) keyword glossary (members only). It was a project I had worked on, so of course, I was glad to see it
A Chance to Mold the Profession
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I’ve just finished Shaping the Bar by Prof. Joan Haworth. I think it’s a must-read for law librarians in any work context. As I moved recently from a public law library to an academic one,