Erica Anderson,
Research Librarian at the Legislative Library, Ontario, asked me to post this news to SLAW:
[UPDATE (8 pm): I've just received a copy of the court's order in this matter, Scorpio Music SA v. Willis [PDF], thanks to Lee Ryan,
Research Librarian at the Dorraine Zief Law Library, University of San Francisco School of Law.]
Erica Anderson,
Research Librarian at the Ontario Legislative Library, and Susan Barker, Digital Services and Reference Librarian at the Bora Laskin Law Library,... [more]
Erica Anderson,
Research Librarian at the Ontario Legislative Library, and Susan Barker, Digital Services and Reference Librarian at the Bora Laskin Law Library, recently wrote an excellent article exploring legislative intent research for the Canadian Parliamentary Review, Cinderella at the Ball: Legislative Intent in Canadian Courts.
This from Erica Anderson, TALL President and
Research Librarian at the Legislative Library, Ontario:
Eve Leung,
a Research Librarian at the Ontario Legislative Assembly Library, was also a guest participant in the discussion.
Nicole Branch, MLIS, is
a research librarian at Holy Names University in Oakland, California, where she provides research support services and information literacy instruction to undergraduate and graduate students.
One of the earliest jobs I remember my mother having was as
a research librarian at a university.
All others are welcome to contact
the research librarians at any time for research assistance.
Not exact matches
InfoPosse members are Genevieve Foskett, corporate
librarian at Highsmith Inc.; Lisa Guedea Carreà ± o, library director
at Goshen College; Christine Klein, director of knowledge and information management
at LifeCare Inc.; Jean Mayhew, director of information and learning
at United Technologies
Research Center; and Lisa Zwickey, senior research specialist at J.J. Keller & Ass
Research Center; and Lisa Zwickey, senior
research specialist at J.J. Keller & Ass
research specialist
at J.J. Keller & Associates.
I had a
librarian at Talbot School of Theology
research this for several months, and it appears to be a mistaken quotation that dates back several hundred years to a Latin commentary on the Talmud.
Cathy Sarli, a
librarian at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, specializes in
research impact assessment.
Working
at his job as a
research librarian (we can only assume he has very generous extended health benefits) he bumps into Clare Abshire (Rachel McAdams).
Compared to teachers
at schools with similarly renovated libraries — those renovated with state QZAB funds but without additional professional development funds, community partnerships, and modernized technology — teachers
at Library Project schools reported more collaboration with the school
librarian and were four times more likely to have their students use the library for
research.
The edWeb webinar, Rethinking the
Research Paper, was presented by Michelle Luhtala, a regular edWeb presenter who is also the Head
Librarian at New Canaan High School in New Canaan, Connecticut and the winner of the 2011 «I Love My
Librarian» Award, the 2010 National School Library Program of the -LSB-...]
My son, a bio-sci professor
at a NJ university has told me how deficient many of his students are in doing academic
research because they didn't have school
librarians.
Without a school
librarian Woodbridge Students will be
at a major disadvantage when they reach college and need to
research topics and create college - level papers and projects.
Well, if you think that professional
librarians are a dying breed you really haven't done your
research at all have you.
Deb Kachel, a long - time instructor in the School of Education who was recently hired as an Affiliate Faculty Member in the K - 12 School Library Endorsement program, has been working with Keith Curry Lance, principal researcher
at Library
Research Service, Colorado, tracking school
librarian positions since 2000.
This article briefly addresses findings by the Library
Research Service that 45 percent of students in grades three through ten increased their CSAP test scores over the course of a year, compared with just 29 percent of students who did not have a school
librarian at their school.
This article criticizes the decision made by site - based management teams
at Michigan elementary schools to cut school
librarian positions and cites an impact study conducted by the Library
Research Service, as well as a report authored by the National Center for Education Statistics.
My son, a bio-sci professor
at a NJ university has told me how deficient many of his students are in doing academic
research because they didn't have school
librarians.
Without a school
librarian Woodbridge Students will be
at a major disadvantage when they reach college and need to
research topics and create college - level papers and projects.
In his opening remarks, Kieran Ayton, the President of the Rhode Island Library and the Emerging Technologies and Digital Initiatives
Librarian at Rhode Island College said, «As part of my job
at the Rhode Island College library, I teach
research instruction to first year students, freshman who have recently graduated from high school.
«
At a time of rapid technological and social change,
librarians, publishers and technology providers need to understand consumer attitudes while developing approaches to meet market demand and needs, and this in - depth
research will help inform strategic planning.»
Nonetheless, the South Carolina study, which tied test scores to specific standards, revealed that students with full - time, qualified
librarians and strong library programs were more likely to meet
at an exemplary level, and less likely not to meet, specific standards for using literary text, using informational text, and conducting
research (Lance, Schwarz, & Rodney, 2014).
Wednesday, speakers include Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler,
Librarian and Urban Historian
at John Jay College, Scott Sherman, contributing writer and editor of The Nation, and David Giles,
Research Director
at the Center for an Urban Future.
Congratulations to Sloane Art
Librarian Heather Gendron and her colleagues Neal Ambrose - Smith (independent artist and consultant), Dr. Joan E. Beaudoin (Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science, Wayne State University), and Eumie Imm - Stroukoff (
Librarian and Assistant Director of the
Research Center
at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum), who were awarded a $ 12,500 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation for their project Artists» Studio Archives:
Research and Publication.
At the trial, several former Knoedler employees — including Melissa De Medeiros, who was Freedman's assistant, and Edye Weissler, the gallery's
librarian — said they had done provenance
research into the Rosales works to find documentation that proved the paintings were purchased decades ago by a Swiss collector with the help of either Ossorio or Herbert.
ASTRO - POEMS AND VERTICAL GROUP EXERCISES: CONCRETE POETRY
AT CSA Jun 13 - Jul 13, 2018 Private view Tue Jun 12 6 pm - 8.30 pm Curated by Chelsea College of Arts
Librarian, Gustavo Grandal Montero, this exhibition reflects Montero's ongoing
research into the evolution of concrete poetry and its influence on visual art in the period 1964 - 67 in Britain.
At the Association of College and
Research Libraries» Blog ACRLog, California Law
Librarian Michael Ginsborg issues a call for united action on the part of libraries to protect themselves from anticompetitive practices in the publishing world.
Law
librarians at Stanford Law School blog about what they've learned and continue to discover about the ins and outs of legal
research.
If the results of recent Thomson Reuters
research are to be believed, more technology and knowledge tools are key to meeting the needs of the critical market of law
librarians,
at least in large and mid-sized US firms; it may be different elsewhere.
As online legal
research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law
librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.
My early encounters with electronic legal researchbefore becoming a
librarian are quaint recollections — my law firm's one Lexis terminal, a behemoth console squirreled away in a tiny electrical closet where searchers, wedged in the closet's doorway, gaveliteral expression to being
at the threshold of computerized
research, or mind - boggling speculation that somedayeach lawyer,
at least atthe most prosperous firms, might have a Lexis or Westlaw terminal
at hervery own desk.
For other legal and legislative
research questions, please feel free to contact us
at the Law Library of Congress via our «Ask a
Librarian» service.
She also provides legal
research services to patrons, both
at the reference desk in the Law Library Reading Room and via the Law Library's Ask a
Librarian service.
Author: Brian Williams is a
research librarian for criminology, law and society
at the University of California, Irvine.
The
research guide is written by Chenglin Liu, the foreign and international
librarian at the O'Quinn Law Library
at the University of Houston Law Center.
But O'Grady also takes close looks
at new legal
research platforms, interviews legal publishing leaders, and explores the evolving role of law
librarians as the profession absorbs new technology and law firms rethink how they serve clients.
Would legal writing and legal
research be taught by law
librarians (who,
at Canadian universities, are themselves faculty with little or no experience of legal practice), or would the responsibility be given to adjunct faculty from the practising bar, with hands - on experience of
research in practice?
By better understanding the
research process, law
librarians can better identify possible «zones of intervention» to get involved in helping researchers
at the peak of those moments when anxiety arises.
Yes, the legal
research and writing faculty (who are often
librarians)
at your school has been using the law school library as a practice laboratory to give students the real world skills they need.
1) Hypothesis # 1: Legal researchers suffer less anxiety
at the initiation stage of their
research if they consult a trained law
librarian to discuss the issue and identify a
research strategy, including recommended sources.
Editor Mirela Roznovschi, reference
librarian for international and foreign law
at NYU, writes, «GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high - level international, foreign, and comparative law
research tools in order -LSB-...]
Genie Tyburski, law
librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll and publisher of the legal -
research resource The Virtual Chase, has compiled her list of 10 Essential Web Sites for Litigators.
She has worked
at many different types of libraries, from university to school to
research, and has been a law
librarian since 2006, currently
at Tapper Cuddy LLP.
Tanya Du Plessis, Law Faculty Information
Librarian at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, wrote her doctorate dissertation on «Information and Knowledge Management in Support of Legal
Research in a Digital Information Environment.»
Before arriving
at Osgoode, Mirando spent 15 years working as a
librarian for Torys LLP, where he felt as though he had to start from scratch with articling students because they didn't know the
research skills they needed in practice.
«The attorneys surveyed placed advanced legal
research skills alongside drafting pleadings and motions as the skills both «most needed» and «most lacking» in litigation practice,» according to Nota Bene, a blog by the
librarians at the University of Houston O'Quinn Law Library.