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Tag Archives: time management
Am I Efficient? How Well Do I Manage Time?
by Dean Duane Strojny “Can you recommend a good, practical read on efficiency, productivity, time management, etc.? I’d like to read something someone else has had a good experience using or got something useful from.” This was in my email … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration and Design Ideas, Planning, Productivity
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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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The Downside of Prioritizing Productivity
by Tara Mospan “Do more with less.” Out of necessity, and prompted by the national economic downturn, many of us are fully executing this mantra and have radically changed how we approach our work. We have searched out ways to … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Issues in Law Librarianship, Time Management
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Turning off, tuning out
This was my view last week: I was not thinking of my scheduled post for the RIPS blog, I fear. Nor was I thinking of faculty training, student queries, patron requests, or LMS oddities. Well, I wasn’t thinking of them … Continue reading
Posted in Issues in Law Librarianship, Productivity, Time Management
Tagged technology, time management
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Keeping tabs on your virtual resume
My smartphone is beeping and chirping every few moments. My laptop and iPad are engaging in inappropriate behavior. More importantly my online research and scholarship pages (IUPUI ScholarWorks, SSRN) and professional sites (Faculty Bio, LinkedIn) are out of date! Teaching, professional … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Technology, Work/Life Balance
Tagged CV, digital resume, Google Scholar, ORCID, Perma, technology, time management, WordPress
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What are your plans for 2014?
The semester has wrapped up, and the students are off to think about something other than law school. Our faculty are busy grading, and their library needs are not as frequent. Therefore, it sounds like a perfect time to reflect … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Issues in Law Librarianship, Productivity, Work/Life Balance
Tagged patron services, Teaching, time management
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How much time do you spend preparing for ____________?
Go ahead. Fill in the blank. And then think about it for a bit. As librarians, we spend a lot of time preparing for many things, be it the next one-on-one patron meeting or an instructional training. We spend a … Continue reading
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