The discussion continues in this recent Houston Chronicle (Chron.com) article, It’s online, and today’s librarians are experts at finding it.
Category: Technology
Organization Course Offered by HSLANJ
From a recent email sent to the NJLLA mailing list:
Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ) Meeting It’s About Time, It’s About Space: Time and File Management. The intended audience for this program is anyone would like to gather newideas for getting or staying organized. The content is not specific to medical librarians.Wednesday, March 12, 2008. See, http://www.hslanj.org/calendar.html for more.
November Luncheon Presentation Now Available
Kevin Reiss has made available his November 12, 2007 presentation, titled: A Web 2.0 Crash Course. Kevin is the Systems Librarian from the Mina Rees Library at the CUNY Graduate Center. Clcik here for the full presentation.
New Jersey Law Librarians Association November Luncheon
What do Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and their cousin, the social web, mean for law librarians? The 2.0 umbrella includes social networking tools such as facebook, new approaches to library catalogs and resource discovery like aquabrowser, social tagging tools like del.icio.us, and collaborative editing software like the ubiquitous wiki. Web 2.0 is a new approach to building web services based on a philosophy that utilizes technologies that can be rapidly deployed, easily combined, and easily modified. Web 2.0 technologies are rapidly emerging on the web and within vendor products. Come get an introduction to what Web 2.0 is, how 2.0 technologies are currently being used in libraries, and a hands-on demonstration of how some of them work.
Visit http://www.njlla.org/index.cfm for more information.
Bar Exam May Soon See Legal Research Questions
From UT-Austin’s Daily Texan: “Law professors from across the U.S. and Canada joined for a three-day conference, “Teaching the Teachers” at the UT School of Law to discuss how law students research and how they can improve these methods.” Click here for the full article.
The Life of a Modern Law Librarian
Even though her firm’s library has shrunk considerably in recent years, law librarian Sybil Turner finds herself busier than ever. This article from law.com discusses how online resources have changed the nature of legal research for librarians.
Technology and the NYPL’s General Counsel
Law.com has an interesting story about how 21st Century technology has impacted upon the job of the New York Public Library’s General Counsel.
Cumberland County Library Director Reflects on Technology Changes Over the Years
From today’s PressofAtlanticCity.com, Cumberland County Library Director Nancy Forester reflects on the changes that have taken place in libraries during her 42 year library career. Click here for more.