Deep Versus Shallow Thinking in Legal Research
In The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Carr posits that internet use may be changing the neurological structure of our brains. Neuroscientists have come to understand that our...
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Encouraging User Participation in Different Information Environments
Participatory libraries encourage users to engage with and add to library services. In a participatory library, part of a librarian’s role is to encourage user participation (Casey, 2007). The...
View ArticleTransparency – public versus private libraries
A transparent organization is flat rather than top down. That is, staff are involved in the process of making decisions that govern them. The director of a transparent library allows time for...
View ArticleMember fees in a private law library
In a transparent library, it is important to revisit ideas and policies to determine whether or not they still make sense (Stephens, 2008). In our library, we are currently re-examining one of our...
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Reaching all law library users
Michael’s class lecture discussed the importance of reaching all library users. This involves a consideration of who the library’s users are, and also who the users are that the library is not...
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Making our blog more participatory
At Golden Gate University Law Library, we can better utilize our blog to make it more participatory in order to better serve our mission and improve our library services. Currently, our blog is used...
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Play in teaching legal research
In the age of Library 2.0, it is important that librarians have strong teaching skills. They must be able to guide users through a constructive learning process. It is also important that librarians...
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Self-Promotion and Libraries
In any profession, it is essential to promote oneself in order to succeed (Henry, 2012). As explained in this short slide presentation, self-promotion is a prerequisite to professional advancement....
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Innovate. Play. Connect. Contemplate. Be.
INNOVATE One of the themes that has run through this course is the importance of innovation in libraries. Change is inevitable. Instead of resisting it, it behooves us to embrace it. Libraries are...
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Using technology to create a participatory library (Virtual Symposium)
My virtual symposium for the Hyperlinked Library is a Prezi presentation that focuses on using technology to reach all users at the academic law library where I work. Thank you to Michael and the class...
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