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How to Be a Law Librarian
Law librarianship is truly whatever you wish to make of it. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Issues in Law Librarianship, RIPS blog
Tagged career, job, profession, vocation
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Balancing Act
by Beau Steenken Recently I returned from vacationing with relatives in California. The combination of a week away from work, conversations with one of my aunts who recently retired from a career in H.R., and seeing my three-year-old son’s unrestrained … Continue reading
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Tagged academic law libraries, career
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What’s in a name?
by Janelle Beitz … That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So reference librarians would, were they not so call’d, Retain that dear perfection which they owe Without that title. I don’t know if … Continue reading
“Going Over the Top”: One Librarian’s Foray into a Part-Time JD Program
You history majors or just history buffs out there will instantly recognize the phrase, “going over the top” and how it was used by soldiers in WWI to describe to act of climbing out of their trench and out into … Continue reading
