I was recently honored to have been featured in the newsletter of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL). I have been thinking quite a bit lately about the overall future of our profession and the fear that seems
Access to the most current and reliable information is a prerequisite to sound decision-making and innovative thinking.
Yet too many knowledge workers are tasked with finding information on their own, on the open internet, and increasingly that includes workers who
Your business may not need a library, but it needs a librarian! For everything from risk management to productivity enhancement, librarians pay for themselves, and then some. Worried about putting a librarian on staff? How about a virtual librarian, at your service?
In February, I will have the honor of presenting an overview of a white paper on which my team at LibSource has been working. We have been reviewing various content aggregation platforms and discussing their value within the legal research
Visualizations continue to crop up in legal research software. This trend has been occurring for a handful of years now, and has been a topic I’ve spent a lot of time researching and talking about. The question is, can a
Re-imagining the civic role of libraries in our technological age is an intriguing subject to me. So, when an article sidebar espouses the innovative ways public libraries have reinvented themselves in order to play a central civic role in their
AALL reports this morning the name change proposal failed. A little more than 4 out of every 5 votes received were against the name change. AALL will continue to be the American Association of Law Libraries rather than the proposed Association for Legal Information.
Though I have been accused of having “grizzly bear” hair by a certain toddler who shares a house with me, I have not been hibernating for the winter. I would not hold it against you if you thought that was
If you are a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and have not been living under that proverbial rock as of late, you are probably more than well aware that the organization is eagerly awaiting the results of
Continuing its innovative approach to docket research and retrieval, PacerPro has announced the release of its exciting new litigant profiling functionality. Attorneys and researchers seeking to look beyond just the dockets to the bigger picture of a litigation are sure