Blog – Page 179

The Personal Information Trainer

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.

Subjects: Communication Skills, Features, Law Firm Marketing, Law Librarians, Legal Research, Libraries & Librarians, Library Marketing, Presentation Skills

FOIA Facts: Increasing the Quality of FOIA Releases

Scott A. Hodes contends that FOIA Office personnel are often inadequately trained and overworked, resulting in responses that reflect inconsistent quality and that are often not timely. His recommendations include thorough training programs and the creation of a specific FOIA job category.

Subjects: FOIA Facts

Reference from Coast to Coast: Making A Federal Case Out of It

This month Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen review the expanding world of federal case law sources available free on the web. They also highlight the new feature of searching slip opinions that is now available on a number of sites.

Subjects: Legal Research, Legal Technology, Reference from Coast to Coast, United States Law

The Social Networking Titans: Facebook and MySpace

With this article, librarians Deborah Ginsberg and Meg Kribble raise awareness about the different features provided by these services, and their respective impact on students, lawyers, public users, fellow professionals, and other patrons.

Subjects: Features, Legal Technology, Libraries & Librarians

Living With the Asus Eee PC

Conrad J. Jacoby who wrote this review about the Eee, on his Eee, details the strengths and weaknesses of this popular lightweight PC, including its range of software applications, overall functionality, networking and connectivity, and the rationale for keeping his laptop.

Subjects: Gadgets, Technology Trends

The Tao of Law Librarianship: If the Books Go, Will They Still Want Us?

Connie Crosby’s column returns with an insightful clarion call about the work in which we must engage now, collectively, to clarify, market and invigorate our profession.

Subjects: Blogs, Law Firm Marketing, Law Librarians, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Libraries & Librarians, Library Marketing, The Tao of Law Librarianship

LLRX Book Review by Heather A. Phillips – Jerome Neus Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults

Heather A. Phillips’ reviews Jerome Neu’s exploration of the characteristics, purpose, intent and effects of insults.

Subjects: LLRX Book Review

Conrad Jacoby’s E-Discovery Update: Minimizing E-Mail Archive Data Conversion Issues

According to Conrad J. Jacoby e-mail conversion is done without a second thought in many e-discovery projects, and the results are often satisfactory to both producing and requesting parties. However, each major e-mail archive architecture uses a fundamentally different method for storing information about e-mail messages, and sometimes some collateral damage will occur.

Subjects: Case Management, Computer Security, Conflicts, Digital Archives, Disaster Planning, Discovery, E-Discovery, Email, Email Security, Information Architecture

Doing Legal Research in Canada – Canadian Legal Research: By Topic

Updated August 1, 2000, Updated July 2, 2001 and January 19, 2004

Editor’s Note: This is a new update to the author’s original guide (published May 1, 2000), and to his subsequent update, July 2, 2001. There are numerous additions, changes for some Web site addresses, as well as some deletions, which will be indicated by the use of (green background color) for easy identification.

Subjects: Uncategorized

Doing Legal Research in Canada – Canadian Legal Publishers

Subjects: Uncategorized