By Michael Robak, Chair, LIT-SIS Strategic Planning Committee (Committee Members: Patricia Barbone, Will Monroe, Susan Azyndar, Teresa Myers, and Victor Chavez) The first prompt to our AI Co-Pilots about the combined 2001 – 2024 CS/LIT – SIS Strategic plans asked …
LIT-SIS 2025-2027 Strategic Plan – “What’s Past is Prologue” Read more »
By Michael Robak, Chair, LIT-SIS Strategic Planning Committee (Committee Members: Patricia Barbone, Will Monroe, Susan Azyndar, Teresa Myers, and Victor Chavez) The LIT-SIS Strategic Planning Committee is kicking off the journey to our 2025–2027 Strategic Plan with a fresh and …
If you’ve ever used a tool to generate citations, there’s a good chance that tool used Citation Style Language. CSL is an open source, XML-based language designed to describe citation styles. Many citation managers and citation generator tools rely on …
While I think many may have heard by now that LIT-SIS Executive Board member, Matthew Braun, passed away on May 28, I just want to add a short tribute to Matthew, a truly gifted Law Librarian and a gentle and …
In Memoriam: Matthew Braun, May 10, 1977 – May 28, 2025 Read more »
By Melanie Knapp (mentor) and Alisa Lazear (mentee) After spending a year participating in the AALL Mentor Program, we wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on our experience, share what worked for us, and offer ideas for others who …
Reflections on a Year in the AALL Mentor Program Read more »
I am thrilled to announce the upcoming release of a groundbreaking resource for the law librarian community: Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries. Edited by the distinguished Ellyssa Kroski, this comprehensive volume …
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 …
Challenge: Write a blog post for LIT-SIS about something other than AI because people are kind of reaching the end of their AI tolerance. Problem: Once again, that cursor is blinking at me. Once again, my mind is blank. Solution: …
Creating Mind Maps: Get out of your thinking rut Read more »
I’ve recently started an exciting new job, but one part I wasn’t so excited for was switching from Google Workplace to Microsoft 365, and especially from Gmail to Outlook. In Gmail, I relied heavily on labels, filters, the “multiple inbox” …
Congratulations to Brian Huffman, 2025 Winner of the LIT-SIS Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award! We are thrilled to announce that Brian Huffman, Electronic Services Librarian at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, has been awarded the 2025 Kenneth J. …
LIT-SIS Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award Winner! Read more »
