Guest post by Teresa Miguel-Stearns Since Cas Laskowski, my brilliant colleague and director of the fellows program, covered most of our thoughts and ideas in her post, I will not reiterate them here. I will add a few more considerations to our ongoing discussion started by the anonymous RIPS-SIS blog post. First, I want to Read More
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Response to DEI and De-Credentialization
I applaud the writer of the DEI and De-Credentialization blog post for calling on law librarians as a profession to be critical as we evolve to be a more inclusive and impactful profession. The author expressed salient concerns about what eliminating the J.D.-requirement in certain situations might mean for the future of our profession. In Read More
Second Class Recap
I have had the privilege of teaching Law Practice Technology for FIU for a second semester. Developing this course has been an iterative process. Since this semester had four more weeks to fill than the summer, I took this opportunity to retool the course and redraft the assignments. One significant change I made was to Read More
Design Thinking & Librarians
There has been an increasing amount of discussion about design thinking and the law. However, there seems to be a dearth of parallel conversation in the law library circles.* We have already proven ourselves resources for legal technology initiatives. It is vital that we also become knowledge leaders in this related area. Design thinking is Read More
Open Access Advocates in EU Call for Support
In April, the EU set the fox to guard the henhouse by subcontracting Elsevier to monitor Open Science. The open access push in the EU and its advocates have had issues with Elsevier for a long while. It is not surprising that the community reaction to the news was negative. According to the complaint, a Read More
KIND of a Big Deal
I am planning to write a full review of the Latino Caucus’ ribbon fundraiser for Kids in Need of Defense, but I wanted to provide a quick update as everyone was so excited about it. We sold every one of the 300 ribbons (including the one on my badge) and far exceed my original hope of $150 by Read More
Mid-Course Review – pt 2
I’ve included some of the legal tech course staples, like a time-keeping assignment and weekly discussions. However, I’ve tried to find ways to encourage students to take charge of their own learning as much as possible because this is an online class. Part of that effort is the group discussion lead assignment. The group discussion Read More
Mid Course Review – pt 1
Several assignments are now in and graded, and we are over halfway through the semester, so it seems like a good time to review how the course is going so far. I’ll be teaching it again in the fall, and I have already identified some things that I’ll keep and some that will need to Read More
Tech Competencies For Librarians
Edit: This like was updated to direct to the open preprint. Over a year ago, I responded to a call for proposals to the Journal of Academic Librarianship. I was just a few months into my new job and fresh out of library school. I was pretty sure I would get rejected, but I thought it would be Read More
For Family
Every story I read about the children separated from family hurts my heart more, and I feel as though it is a bit more difficult to breathe each time. It hits me deeply as my Abuela had to leave two of her four sons, my tios, behind in Cuba in order to build something for everyone Read More