Category: Blog

Sandra Collins and Allison Brungard discuss the art of working part-time in the current edition of Library Journal. The full article appears here.

Rita Bronnenkant’s wonderful Internet Resources list is still useful. Take a look yourself:
http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/njlla/internet.htm

WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them. The service is free!*

Law library news from California’s chicoer.com: Law Library to be Relocated From Courthouse Next Year – “Once hailed as the “biggest little law library” in the state, it is being relocated from the Butte County Superior Court in Oroville several miles to the downtown Carnegie Building on Montgomery Street, which once housed the city public library.”

Recent posted on various lists:

Announcing LexLibris, the University of Minnesota Law Library Blawg! http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lawlib/lexlibris/

You’ll find information about the blog, including how to subscribe for notification of new entries, in our first post at the link above.

We hope this new communication tool will be useful to the law school community and other interested readers. Please email lawlib@umn.edu with your comments, questions, or other feedback. Feel free to forward this notice to others who may be interested.

The NJLLA November luncheon and workshop will be held at Seton Hall University School of Law on Monday, November 13, 2006. The workshop, “Thomson University’s Librarian MBA Program”, will be conducted by Betty Jo Hibberd from Dialog. It provides practical “how-to” techniques in justifying your information services, going beyond numbers and connecting to the objectives of the organization as a whole. The time of the program is still being worked out, check the web site for the time.

Speaking of the web site, have you checked out NJLLA.org lately? Lots of new stuff is posted, including:

– An October program overview by Mary Ellen Kaas
– A link to a recent profile of new NJLLA member Molly Brownfield
– 2 new employment listings
– An article on how we can use wikis in the law library
– Information on free NJ administrative regs – thanks to GALIC!

From the Courier News Online: Kane Law Library Opens Self-Help Center.

For AALL Members: Participate in the AALL Online Election from Wednesday, November 1, 2006 to Friday, December 1, 2006. View the candidate biographies.

The University of Virginia Library has collected Administrative Decisions & Other Actions (by agency — by subject) on its Government Information Resources web page.

A little late but…

For the entire month of October, access to NYLJ.com will be completely FREE!