Colleagues:

Jim Milles recently pointed us to the following new article on SSRN, which may be of interest:

Robin Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1416866. Abstract:

"The authors conducted an empirical study comparing the learning styles of law students with young adults at other educational institutions. The law school sampl… Continue

In the "it's never too late" department, I just finished listening to the "Greening the Legal Profession" webinar co-sponsored by AALL for Professional Legal Management Week (PLMW), September 2008. The .wmv file is here:

http://bit.ly/pOSIC

The PowerPoint file is here:

http://bit.ly/wJxwA

Related files from AALL are here:

Spending Green
How law libraries can save energy and money with cow-bel… Continue

Just listened in to the most recent radio show on "Managing Electronic Titles in Law Libraries" with guests, Yael Mandelstam and Angela Jones providing a technical services perspective. Great stuff! And there's a chat room where listeners can exchange information, links, and ask questions. There were up to 82 listeners today. The shows are archived so you can listen in later:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian/

In previous e… Continue

Last year the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section sponsored the first Web 2.0 Challenge, an online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was so popular CS-SIS is sponsoring it again in 2009.

The Web 2.0 Challenge will provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity designed for law librarians that incorporates hands-on use of these technologies. The course is intended for law librarians who have… Continue

Jim Milles has a fine post at Out of the Jungle about the debate over the permanence of the contraction in the private legal services market. This is an important contextual issue respecting legal informatics, legal education, and law libraries. A lively debate is taken place in the comments to Jim's post… Continue