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The RIPS Law Librarian Blog is published by the Research, Instruction, and Patron Services Special Interest Section (RIPS-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries. All opinions expressed in the posts herein are those of the individual author and do not represent the opinions of RIPS-SIS or AALL.
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Reflecting on the Research Assistant Program
It’s springtime in Bloomington. The sun is shining, birds are singing, and the flowers are, well, blooming of course. Here I sit, stuck inside at my computer and thinking about research assistants, when all I really want to do is … Continue reading
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What Types of Faculty Services are Libraries Offering? Check the Toolkit
How many times have we all heard the phrase “don’t reinvent the wheel” or something similar? Fortunately, the special interest sections, caucuses, and chapters of AALL make numerous helpful materials available online, from toolkits and best practices guides, to webinars … Continue reading
Faculty Services: Keeping Up with Faculty Bibliographies
In my last post, Evolution of a Faculty Services Position, I mentioned taking on the maintenance of the faculty bibliography pages. This post is a closer look at the tools and processes that are helpful for keeping the bibliographies up to … Continue reading
Beyond the Reference Desk
A formative experience for me in library school was working the reference desk with the librarians at the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington. I watched in wonder as the librarians each listened to their respective patrons, and … Continue reading
Promoting Faculty Scholarship
by Jamie Baker Most law schools are players in the zero-sum game of the US News ranking system. The overall score in this system is influenced in large part—nearly 40%—by quality assessment from peer academics, lawyers, and judges. One of the ways to … Continue reading
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