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Our law library had an open house recently and some of the governing board were there. They reminded me of the first time I met them in person. One recounted that they had driven me home
Readers Choice
July 2019
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Monitor Your Web Connections
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An issue came up recently that caused some of our library folks to want to help out a colleague. They found links from a third-party site that weren’t going to where they should be. Your website
Embrace Our Robot Underlings
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I was able to participate recently in a professional event involving lots of smart librarians discussing AI and law libraries. At the end, one outcome I committed to was to list what my law library was
A Newsletter Replacement for Jetpack
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After a bit of a greedy upsell, I dropped Automattic’s Jetpack plugin. One feature I was noodling on was the post follower option. Jetpack offers the ability for people to follow new posts from within
I’m Sorry, Who Are You Again?
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I was out with a group of our staff and we had t-shirts on with our public law library’s name on it. We were amongst a larger crowd and some of the folks we were with
Post-Mortem on a Law Library
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I’ve just gotten back from an invigorating experience discussing possible law library futures. Perhaps my senses were a bit heightened, then, as I read about the rootlessness of the Jackson County (MO) law library in Kansas
The Productivity Spiral
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At the turn of the century, I worked at the American Bar Association. We had successfully evaded the Y2K turmoil, dot-com was ascendant, and legal technology was having a bit of a boom. There seemed to
Leadership Pieces
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The local county bar association is doing a leadership academy. It is a 6 month, one-day-per-month program (different from AALL’s more concentrated approach). In past years, the bar association held it in their own space
Ditch the Jetpack
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One of the things that first drew me to WordPress back in 2012 was that it was a lot of small pieces. Once you installed the core content management system, you could extend and enhance it
Where To Start Professional Information Gathering
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I was talking with a group recently and someone asked what media I read to get information. I always find that question hard to answer because “everything” is not helpful but I tend not to read