The 2025 Law (Librarian) Grad Gift Guide
Do you have a law student or law librarian in your life graduating this Spring? I don’t know about you, but when I graduated from both law school and library school, the last thing I wanted as a gift was …
Author: Mari Cheney
Legal Researcher, BakerHostetler
Book Review: Unreasonable Hospitality
As law librarians, regardless of where we work, we are in a service profession. And because of that, I highly recommend the book, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect, by Will Guidara. Will’s background …
Set Yourself Up for Success in the New Year: 5 New (to Me) Tech Tools
I’m always on the lookout for the latest and greatest “cool tool,” and if it helps with productivity and focus or reduce clutter, even better. I’ve been eyeing the following gadgets to help me stay on task and maybe even …
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The LIT-SIS Almost-Annual Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of year again, when we recommend tech, book, and library-related gifts to our LIT-SIS colleagues. So without further ado, here’s our list, ranked in order by price, cheapest to most expensive, in case you’re looking for an …
AALL Chicago Review from LIT-SIS Grant Award Winner, Brandi Ledferd
Guest post by Brandi Ledferd, Manager, Technical Services, Library & Research Services, K&L Gates A heartfelt thank you goes to LIT-SIS for awarding me the Annual Meeting Grant for Experienced Librarians, which facilitated my attendance at the AALL Annual Meeting …
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Congrats to the 2024 LIT-SIS Grant & Award Winners
The LIT-SIS Board and Grants & Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the recipients of this year’s grants and awards. 2024 LIT-SIS AALL Leadership Academy Grant Christopher Collins, Research & Emerging Technologies Librarian, Western New England University School of Law …
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AALL Leadership Academy Recap
Guest post by Christopher Collins, Research & Emerging Technologies Librarian, Western New England University School of Law I’ve recently returned from the AALL Leadership Academy in Chicago. I’d like to share some of my impressions and why you might consider …
ABA TechShow Takeaways from Grant Winner Aimee Self Pittman
Guest post by Aimee Self Pittman, Reference and Legal Research Librarian at LSU Law Library. Why should you attend the ABA TechShow? Because it gives you invaluable insight into the business of law and the state of technology in law …
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Artificial Intelligence and Context
Guest post by Justin Tung, Reference Librarian at Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law Recently, Adam Bent, a fellow Law Librarian and former classmate of mine, published an article in Pace Law Review entitled “Large Language Models: …
LIT-SIS Membership Survey Results
Survey Results from LIT-SIS Membership LIT-SIS conducted a survey of members that concluded mid-December 2023. Participation was good with 66 respondents. Here is a brief summary of the results: Most respondents would prefer quarterly educational programing/professional development events (not including …
