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Hindsight: Realizing the Importance of Legal Research
Despite what many law students thing, legal research & writing will be the single most important course in their law career Continue reading
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The Fight to Bring Legal Research to the Front
by Brandon Wright Adler Last week I gave a lecture to the Advanced Legal Research course about the economics of legal research. Most of the students in this class are 3L’s and nearly ready to take on the legal world. … Continue reading
Posted in ABA, Access to Justice, Career, Issues in Law Librarianship, Legal Ethics, Legal Research, Legal Research Instruction, Legal Technology, Patron Services, practice ready, Teaching (general), Technology, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged advanced legal research, law school curriculum, law students, Legal Research Competencies, Legal Research Instruction, teaching legal research
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On Sabbaticals and Term-Limits
by Beau Steenken Today marks a beginning and an end for me. On the one hand, today is the first day of my first ever research sabbatical. (U.K. considers librarians to be 12-month faculty, so I’m splitting my sabbatical and … Continue reading
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Supporting Librarian Scholarship within Your Institution
by Ashley Ahlbrand Librarians are many things: caretakers, teachers, guides, support. These roles reflect the work that we do and the relationships we have with our patrons. Yet there is another role many of us fill, whether as a requirement … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Writing (generally)
Tagged collaboration, publication, Scholarship, writing process
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Do You Want it All?
by Dean Duane Strojny I want it all! Okay, I am generally not that greedy, but there have been quite a few things in the library world that I have come across that either I want to physically have or … Continue reading
Posted in AALL Annoucements, Annual meeting resources, Book Reviews, Career
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Time Management for Playmakers
by Margaret Jane Ambrose Lately, I have been thinking a lot about time. Mostly because I could use more of it (but then who couldn’t?), but also because I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about what I do with … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Issues in Law Librarianship, Time Management
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