Technology for Law Libraries

Diane Murley of  John J. Ross – William C. Blakley Law Library at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law  (aka the law school formerly known as Arizona State) announced today the Technology for Law Libraries Blog.  It’s going to supplement her “Technology for Everyone” column that appears in Law Library Journal.

Facebook Beacon (includes list of partner sites)

Like duct tape, The Force and seemingly everything else that’s holding my life together at the present moment, it appears that Facebook has a bit of a dark side. Well, it actually may not be that dark. It just seems like whenever a large corporation (or other agent of The Man) and privacy [...]

55 Alive

I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with signing my mother up for social networking services, especially in light of our disastrous MySpace experiment.  And yet I persist.  Today I found one that she may like….55 Alive, a social networking site aimed at the older population.   It features many of the same features that one [...]

Week Off Round-up

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving break. I seem to have picked up a cold from my 6 year old nephew (aka Typhoid Joey the Walking Germ Factory) so I’m not feeling quite up to thinking today. So I’m just going to post some quick thoughts and link to some stuff [...]

Thanksgiving Week Hiatus

I am in the middle of moving house and, combined with Thanksgiving, I realized that I’m probably not going to be posting this week. So much for NaBloPoMo.
I’ll be back the Monday after Thanksgiving, unless I see something really cool, which is entirely possible.  If you’re looking for something to read, check out [...]

Newsflash: Students Don’t Like Library Databases

Back in my library school days, I used to work as a library instruction assistant at the IU Undergrad Library. This meant that I locked myself in a computer lab with 25 or so disgruntled undergrad students and tried to show them joys of OPACs and library databases. I felt like I [...]

The Original Blog?

It seems like everytime I turn around lately, I’ve seem some reference to a “commonplace book.”  And as I hadn’t heard of a commonplace book before, oh say…three days ago, it’s caught my attention.   One of the first places that I saw commonplace books referred to was this blog post in which a medievalist [...]

March 2007 Journal of Legal Education

If you have an interest in the intersection of legal education and technology, there are two articles to note in the March 2007 Journal of Legal Education.

Beth Simone Noveck, Wikipedia and the Future of Legal Education, 57 J. Legal Educ. 3 (2007).
Matthew Bodie, The Future of the Casebook: An Argument for the Open-Source Approach, 57 [...]

CiteULike

As I have alluded to before, cataloging makes my heart race and palms sweat – but not in a good way.   Even so, I have found social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us pretty helpful, especially lately when I am trying to keep track of a large number of online resources.  I am still on the fence [...]

Facebook Pages Update 7

The British are coming, the British are coming!  I don’t know what happened across the pond, but overnight a couple of British libraries decided to start into the Facebook Pages.
As of 9:30am EST, there are 70 Library Facebook Pages.  There are 36 university libraries, 30 public libraries, 2 private libraries, 1 corporate and 1 virtual.  [...]