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Deal or No Deal – Licensing & Acquiring Digital Resources: License Negotiations Reprise

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:00 -0700

Kara Phillips' chart documents practical references and resources for licensing negotiations that appear in the library literature covers: researching vendors, seeking input from patrons and usesrs, negotiating pricing, setting contract goals, and establishing effective communications strategies.

The Blog - Another Tool in Your Arsenal

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:00 -0700

Janet Peros provides an overview of how law librarians have integrated blogs and RSS into current awarness services for practice groups and client related research.

The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:00 -0700

LaJean Humphries identifies the wide range of social networking sites with which researchers should be knowlegeable, and addresses legal, privacy and ethical concerns associated with their use. She also provides a bibliography of books, articles and reports that focus on the impact of social networking applications.

Librarianship - Promoting Public Service and Philanthropy

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:00:00 -0700

Kara Phillips shares examples of diverse personal volunteer efforts within the law library community, gleaned from an informal survey, that include service on the local, national and international level.

The Tao of Law Librarianship: Reaching Across the Generations in the Profession

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:00:00 -0700

Connie Crosby addresses the evolving professional roles and expectations, goals and perspectives of librarians between Baby Boom and Generation X.

Deal or No Deal – Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources: License Negotiations

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:00:33 -0700

Kara Phillips describes how to apply the techniques and theories that are the foundation of a classic book on negotiation to the process of developing electronic licensing agreements that satisfy the requirements of all parties involved.

Law Librarian One of Top Ten Finalists for Animal Planet Hero of the Year Award

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:45:51 -0700

Law Librarian One of Top Ten Finalists for Animal Planet Hero of the Year Award

By Kara Phillips

Kara Phillips, Collection Development Librarian/Associate Director at Seattle University Law Library since 1997, has worked for various state agencies in Washington as a contract librarian as well as the Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department and Lane Powell Spears Lubersky. Recipient of a Blakemore Fellowship, she studied Mandarin Chinese at the Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan in 1996 and during her sabbatical in 2007 will work in China, setting up an American legal collection at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Law.

A Cup of Creativi-tea: Writer's Block

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:09:55 -0700

Terri Wilson suggests a number of creativity exercises that can be of assistance when writer's block sets in, and deadlines loom.

Features - The State of the Law Library Blogosphere

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:42:07 -0700

The State of the Law Library Blogosphere

by Bonnie Shucha

Bonnie Shucha is Head of Reference, University of Wisconsin Law Library

Features - Writing Justice Blackmun

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:05:05 -0700

Writing Justice Blackmun

American Association of Law Libraries, St. Louis, July 9, 2006

by Linda Greenhouse

Deal or No Deal: Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:22:46 -0700

This new column by Kara Phillips launches with a review of resources and techniques to help get you up to speed on licensing and put you on a level playing field with the vendor reps on the other side of the licensing table.

The Tao of Law Librarianship: Flickr is the Web Photo Tool Preferred by Superheroes and Librarians

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:39:40 -0700

Connie Crosby interviews Libraryman about how he uses the popular web-based photo sharing application, and its substantial value to the profession as teaching, training and communications application.

A Cup of Creativi-tea: Brainstorming

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:28:04 -0700

Terri Wilson is a solo librarian at the law firm of Underwood, Wilson, Berry, Stein, and Johnson, PC in Amarillo, Texas. She has a BFA in Theatre from Eastern New Mexico University, an MFA in Theatre from Texas Tech University, and an MS in Library & Information Science from the University of North Texas. Prior to becoming a law librarian, Terri was a paraprofessional for six years in the reference department of the University Library at Texas Tech. And prior to that, she explored a cornucopia of employment positions while a laboring as a struggling actor (emphasis on the struggling part). Terri has recently started a blog for creative ideas for librarians.

A Cup of Creativi-tea: Brainstorming

Features - The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:23:00 -0700

The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate

American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy Brief, January 2006

By Jonathan Band

Features - Election Law @ Moritz

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:19:15 -0700

Election Law @ Moritz

By Sara Sampson

Sara Sampson is a reference librarian at the Moritz Law Library, The Ohio State University, where she has been involved in the Election Law @ Moritz program since its inception. She received both her B.S. and J.D. from The Ohio State University and her M.L.I.S. from Kent State University. Prior to joining the Moritz Law Library, Ms. Sampson served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. William H. Harsha and the Hon. Roger L. Kline of the Ohio Court of Appeals, Fourth District.