law librarian food pyramid: how to s tay h ealthy
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Law Librarian Food Pyramid: How To S tay H ealthy. Introduction. Law librarianship can be a challenging career. In fact, many law librarians were previously lawyers themselves. While knowledge of all law is not required, it would be hard to get by without a knowledge of these resources. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Law Librarian Food Pyramid: How To Stay Healthy
Introduction
• Law librarianship can be a challenging career. In fact, many law librarians were previously lawyers themselves. While knowledge of all law is not required, it would be hard to get by without a knowledge of these resources.
Fruits and Veggies: Books and Periodicals to Help Your Growth
Books:Law Librarianship in the 21st Century by Luna-
lamas, SoniaThe Changing Role of Law Firm Librarianship
published by Aspatore BooksBasics of Law Librarianship by Panella, Deborah
S.
Fruits and Veggies Continued
Publications
• Legal Information Management Index• Law Librarians Bulletin Board• Legal Research Dictionary• Legal Information Management Reports
Even More…
Indexes• LegalTrac Index• Legal Periodicals Full Text and Retrospective
Index• Index to Legal Periodical Literature• HeinOnline Law Journal Library• EBSCO Legal Collection• Current Index to Legal Periodicals
Grains: They Fill You Up.
Databases• Lexis-Nexis + Lexis-Nexis Congressional• Westlaw• BNA (bureau of national affairs) Databases• Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set• HeinOnline Databases• LLMC (law library microform consortium)
digital
More Grains…
• Knowledge Mosaic• TRACfed• VictimLaw• VersusLaw
Meat/Dairy: What Completes the MealWebsites/blogs
• American Association of Law Libraries:http://www.aallnet.org
• LLXR (law and technology resources for legal professionals): http://www.llrx.com
• LexisNexis: http://law.lexisnexis.com/• Legal Information Services: Services and Publications for
librarians, lawyers, and legal researchers: http://www.legalinformationservices.com/index.php
More Meat/Dairy
• AALL Recruitment Committee: http://www.aallnet.org/committee/rllc/index.asp
• Legal Scholarship Network: http://ssrn.com/lsn/index.html• Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C.: http://llsdc.org• Law Librarian Blog:
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/• The Pratt Law Librarian (blog):
http://theprattlawlibrarian.wordpress.com/category/law-librarianship/
• Criminal Law Library Blog: http://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com
Fats/Sugar…now we have funBeing a law librarian may involve stress from time to time. Therefore here are some funny sites to keep you smiling through the day.
• http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/libhumor.html• http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/koans.htm• http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/• http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/• http://www.unshelved.com/