Social Networks for Law Librarians

[Lyonette Louis-Jacques]

In honor of the Law Libraries and Librarians Ning network hitting its 400th member, I'm posting a modified, updated version of my blog post on "Growing Participation in Social Networking Technologies - Some Numbers". Existing social networks/groups (individual law librarians and legal information professionals also have Facebook pages, are LinkedIn, etc., and there are some very useful electronic discussion groups/listservs such as LAW-LIB at http://home.olemiss.edu/~noe/llfaq.html / http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu/LAWLIB/ and INT-LAW at: http://listserver.ciesin.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Int-Law):

FACEBOOK

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Members on Facebook

OBS-SIS: Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section of AALL (the first AALL SIS on Facebook!)

CS-SIS: Computing Services Special Interest Section of AALL

Academic Law Libraries

Law Librarians

teknoids (includes CS-SIS members)

Unofficial ALLUNY (AALL Chapter)

Shadow and James Show (Jim Milles)

Check This Out! Podcast Fan Club (Jim Milles)

Law Libraries on Facebook
http://tinyurl.com/5e2rpf

AALLc (Asian American Law Librarians Caucus)

AALL Latino Caucus (Latino/a Law Librarians)

British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) Members

UK Law Librarians For Publishers' RSS Feeds

NING

Law Libraries and Librarians Ning Network
Social networking for law librarians and friends of law libraries
http://lawlibraries.ning.com/

(there are also sub-groups on this network for Sci-Fi Law Librarians, Law Librarians for Obama/Biden, LLOPS, Second Life Law Librarians, Court Librarians, Bloggers, Information Literacy in Law, Gen X/Gen Y Caucus, Consultants & Freelancers; also separate Ning groups for ALLUNY, SFALL, Federal Law Libraries Caucus, Law Librarians for McCain/Palin)

TWITTER

JDTwitt's Lawyers (and Legal Professionals) to Follow on Twitter (Twitter handles/addresses for 366 folks, including law librarians)
http://is.gd/2poh

MYSPACE

There were two law libraries there last time I checked - U of Baltimore and Nova Southeastern.

LINKEDIN:

Law Librarians LinkedIn Group
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/114791/3AE4CD069A7B

Law librarians across the globe (working in law firms, law schools, corporate
legal departments, courts, legislatures, agencies, government institutions,
and any other legal-related institutions) who are willing to network with
other law librarians and prospective law librarians

Law-Lib (U.S.-based electronic discussion group with a LinkedIn profile)

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)

Teknoids (computing services/emerging technologies/electronic resources/IT folks)

Strategic Librarians (law firm librarians)

SECOND LIFE

Law Librarians of Second Life (contact Anne Idler or Montserrat Biedermann in-world to join)
http://world.secondlife.com/group/9e9bcdc5-172f-14da-42d5-e739938e58cf

Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds
http://vwlawlibrarians.wetpaint.com/

PLAXO?

DELICIOUS?

DIIGO?

FLICKR?

Let me know if I missed any group or social networking technology useful for law librarians!

[Meg Kribble]

There are Flickr groups with photos from the last three AALL annual meetings:

• AALL Gateway 2006
• AALL Second Line 2007
• AALL Daily Rose 2008

...I think Baltimore and Buffalo, those usual suspects, both have Flickr accounts. There are also numerous individual law librarians there.