Law Librarian Blog

Is devoted to issues related to law libraries, including digital preservation and documentation. The blog covers general news and provides resources for practicing law librarians and those interested in legal research.

Author: Joe Hodnicki, associate director for library operations at the University of Cincinnati Law Library, and Ron Jones, the Electronic Resources & Services Librarian at the University of Cincinnati Law Library, edit the Law Librarian Blog. Both are also listed as contributing editors to Law X.0. Hodnicki is also on the board of advisers for Law School Innovation. Other contributing editors: Sue Altmeyer, electronic services librarian at Cleveland Marshall College of Law who also contributes to CM Law Library Blog; Neal Axton, reference librarian at William Mitchell College of Law Library; Brian Barnes, research librarian at Mississippi College School of Law Library; Elizabeth Farrell, research/instructional technology libraria at Florida State College of Law Research Center; Rick Goheen, law library director and assistant professor of law at the University of Toledo Valley Law Library; Ron Jones, electronic resources and services librarian at the University of of Cincinnati Law Library; Jean M. Pajerek, head of technical services and information management at Cornell Law Library; and Robert Richards, who also authors Legal Informatics Blog.

Recent Posts from Law Librarian Blog

Round-Up of State Practitioner Blogs
California Divorce Lawyer Blog http://www.californiadivorcelawyerblog.com http://www.californiadivorcelawyerblog.com/index.xml Discusses divorce law opinions, matters and news in California. Published by Gary D. Sparks. California Employment Lawyers Blog http://www.californiaemploymentlawyersblog.com http://www.californiaemploymentlawyersblog.com/index.xml Provides opinion on employment law news, cases and reports…
Putting Out Westlaw OnePass Fires: The West Way to Customer Service -- Better Late Than Never But Not as Good as a Timely Heads-Up
So do you think sometime last week West's Lori Hedstrom (Marketing Manager, Librarian Relations) was planning to submit a message about the OnePass rollout to the pll-sis and law-lib listsersv yesterday afternoon? Or did it…
Friday Fun: League of Librarians Trading Cards
Librarians at the University of Rochester River Campus credit Carleton College for giving them the inspiration for their League of Librarians Trading Cards including political science and law librarian Ann Marshall's card, click to enlarge,…
The 2009 Am Law Tech Survey
The American Lawyer's Alan Cohen reports that one-third of the 110 Am Law 200 law firms participating in the Am Law Tech Survey for 2009 reported that their capital budgets were down more than 10…
Reminder: Today's Law Librarian Talk Show to Feature Carl Malamud
Today's Law Librarian Blog Talk Radio program will feature Carl Malamud, of Public.Resource.org. Malamud will be discussing Law.Gov and other digital preservation and open access issues at 3:00 PM ET. Should be very interesting. See…
Some Oldies but Goodies in the Government Domain
"Over my six-plus years of tracking the federal web developments for [e-Government and Web Directory: U.S. Federal Government Online] -- through the post-9/11 scrubbing of numerous dotmil sites, the continuing conversion of government's printed publications…
Some Thoughts on the Bob Berring Video Comments
Bob Berring’s statement about Lexis and Westlaw being a better alternative to legal research than volunteer Internet sites is pretty accurate. Both databases offer depth of resources, organization, precise search language and tools that simply…
The OnePass Rollout Scramble for Westlaw Users: An Ounce of Communication Can Prevent a Pound of Complaints
In Westlaw's OnePass Fiasco: A Study In How NOT To Roll Out A Change, Greg Lambert writes that West sent out a mass email last Thursday about rolling out it's new OnePass login system two…
The Information Age: Finding Needles and Haystacks
Created by Jessica Hagy, author of Index, this simple graphic may be a great illustration for legal research instructors when a student asks, "why can't I just use Google?" [JH]
The Five Sacred Cows of Library Technologists
According to Cindi Trainor: Our users haven't asked for that. Library technology=Windows or Mac. Cutting-edge is better; bleeding-edge is best. is the only way to go. Technology is the domain of the few. See Trainor's…