LLRX.com - Communication Skills

Leadership & The Role of Information: Making The Creatively Informed Questioner

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:04:47 -0800

Stuart Basefsky supports the concept that the quintessential leader is an informed leader. However, effectively communicating and leveraging the power of information, in leadership roles, is subject to a range of interpretations that he discusses in this forward thinking series.

Reference From Coast to Coast: Reference Reciprocity – Part 2

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:39:42 -0800

Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen address the learning opportunities that arise when a research assignment involves unfamiliar issues or areas.

The Tao of Law Librarianship: Do-It-Yourself Professional Development, Part II

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:29:14 -0800

Connie Crosby relates the experiences of several colleagues whose career development paths led to opportunities to work in libraries abroad, and on projects that they may not have otherwise considered. Their stories highlight creative ways to develop professional credentials as well as to expand personal horizons.

Guide on the Side - Final Words: Delivering a Eulogy

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800

Previous Articles by Marie Wallace

Marie Wallace has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a librarian, beginning in 1951 in academia with the University of California and transitioning in 1971 into the private law library world until her 1995 retirement from O'Melveny & Myers. She is the 1997 recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries' highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. Throughout her professional life, Marie has been a guiding force in the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, Practising Law Institute's programs for law librarians and Teaching Legal Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL).

Features - Ten Habits of Highly Effective E-mailers

Mon, 03 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0800

Ten Habits of Highly Effective E-mailers

by Dennis Kennedy

Guide on the Side - Listen Up - Communications Depends on Learning to Listen

Tue, 04 Jul 2000 23:00:00 -0800

Listen Up: Communication Depends on Learning to Listen

By Marie Wallace

Reference from Coast to Coast - What Do You Communicate?

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:00:00 -0800

Reference from Coast to Coast:
Searches and Strategies

By Susan Siebers

Susan P. Siebers has been Director of Library and Information Services at Katten Muchin & Zavis for the past 20 years. She is just completing a 3-year term as Secretary of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Guide on the Side - A Communication Skill Suite: Speaking, Writing and Graphics

Sun, 31 May 1998 23:00:00 -0800

Guide on the Side

A Communication Skill Suite: Speaking, Writing and Graphics

By Marie Wallace

The Personal Information Trainer

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Stuart Basefsky documents how the Personal Information Trainer can become a unique employee benefit written into the employment contract of key individuals deemed to be essential to the success of a firm or institution. This concept is useful to human resource managers, libraries, and the institutions they serve. This article provides the fundamental concepts and constructs necessary to implement such a program with an emphasis on why and how this should be done.

For Future SAKE

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:11:31 -0800

NPR's Senior Librarian Laura Soto-Barra highlights specific "Future Ready" skills that comprise e-leadership competencies: Skills, Attitude, Knowledge and Experience.

Postcard from Vienna: The Vis Moot and the Triumph of Foreign and International Law

Thu, 19 May 2011 14:36:05 -0800

Nicholas Pengelley vibrantly documents, with accompanying photos, his latest experiences as evaluator of written memoranda, arbitrator at oral arguments, and sometime team coach at the Vis Moot, in which he has participated for a decade. The moot, which always takes place in the week leading up to Easter, is held in Vienna because of its associations with the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ("CISG"). This is the law of the contract for all of the moot problems, which always involve a contractual sale of goods dispute between parties from two different countries.

The Way Forward

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:10:29 -0800

Economic conditions are still in flux and the employment outlook defies easy forecasting. Consequently, moving up Maslow's hierarchy toward greater job satisfaction may not include changing employers. To learn more about how information professionals can deepen contentment in-place, Montrese Hamilton contacted well-known career coach Marshall Brown for insight. See also The Way Forward: Part 2 and The Way Forward: Part 3.

The Way Forward: Part 2

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:22:28 -0800

While many of her colleagues packed their bags for the SLA 2010 Annual Conference in New Orleans last June, Montrese Hamilton traded her spot in the Big Easy for login credentials to the virtual conference offerings. Here she discusses the presentation, Negotiating Up.

The Online Oral Academic Learning Community

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:07:58 -0800

Lorette S.J. Weldon discusses innovative methods to use social networking and oral tradition to support the goals of sharing professional experiences and collaborating on best practices for past, current, and ongoing research.

The Art of Written Persuasion: Part V - Improve Your Vocabulary, Improve Your Success

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:54:11 -0800

Troy Simpson returns with this fifth article in the series, and investigates the link between having a good vocabulary [lawyers have a speaking acquaintance with around 23,000 words] and being a persuasive lawyer.