Sentences with phrase «firm librarians»

If firm librarians spend time with them early on, and help them to learn the right way of going about their research, this will have improved their confidence and contributed to their success and that of the firm.

So I joined the chorus of law firm librarians laying the blame for this lack of fundamental legal research knowledge at the foot of the law schools, for their inadequate preparation of their students.

Increasingly, we are seeing law firm librarians and library staff becoming more involved in KM at their firms (e.g., helping the firm organize and maintain the firm's research memo and work product databases or helping design and maintain the firm's intranet, to name but two examples) but we don't necessarily see the opposite: it remains unusual for KM lawyers and KM staff to be involved with or integrated into library or research services.

It promotes the value of law firm librarians and explores the issues surrounding that value.

When we started the CLEBC publishing program 20 + years ago, we heard loud and clear from our potential customers (particularly law firm librarians) that they did not see the value in expensive and too - frequent updates.

This day was an incredible testament to the keen engagement of the law firm librarians.

How fortunate law firm librarians are to have this opportunity to enhance the crucial nature of their own teaching role within a firm!

There's also an informal network of local law firm librarians who I can contact to borrow other material.

«Susan is one of the few law firm librarians in Vancouver whose photograph and a description of library services appeared in a firm marketing brochure and newspaper advertisement created for client use.»

How and where will law firm librarians interact with lawyers in a future environment of virtual information?

The identification of digitization of special collections as a trend will come as no surprise to law firm librarians, always in the forefront of developments in our profession.

One of our librarians who was eligible to take a few weeks of research leave interviewed a sizeable number of law firm librarians, judges, junior associates, senior partners, etc. to compile a list of research skills that are lacking in recent graduates.

Of the 6 Biglaw law firms, 4 have WestlawNext (although one, at present, is only making it available to firm librarians — see comments below) and 2 do not.

I know that when firm librarians first saw the marketing materials, we were worried that the quality of search results would go down due to the one - box searching, but if anything the opposite has happened.

I encourage private firm librarians and knowledge specialists to participate and provide feedback.

He is one of the founders and editors of the highly collaborative On Firmer Ground blog, which covers the challenges facing contemporary law firm librarians.

I can already hear law firm librarians cheering!

Law firm librarians should collaborate with local (or virtual) academic librarians to form cooperative alliances;

Berring (2007)[2] nicely illustrates the value of speed among firm librarians as compared to their counterparts in the university setting:

Law firm librarians enjoy the fruits of the labour that takes place in law school libraries.

I certainly do not blame the law firm librarians (who work hard to try to get the students to be much more proficient and comfortable with research.

It also makes life easier for law firm librarians and CIOs, he says.

And to the extent that our legal arguments rest upon such foundations,... well let's say that the need for remedial research instruction is a constant with all research lawyers and law firm librarians.

Indeed, I do suspect some law firm librarians see themselves in similar roles already.

The panelists were all from the San Francisco area: two law firm librarians, one law school librarian, and one librarian from a public law library.

The conference was attended almost exclusively by law firm librarians, with a sprinkling of academic law librarians and vendors sprinkled in.

It is helpful for law firm librarians and academic law librarians to talk about student training, whether in a formal setting such as a conference or something more informal.

The issue has been a bone of contention for many years, and can create a divide between academic and firm librarians.

Many of these topics arose in my regular guest lecture to the FIS 2133 Legal Literature and Librarianship class earlier this week at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information, taught by John Papadopoulos and Sooin Kim, especially in our discussion in response to the Debates on the Value of Law Firm Librarians summarized on SLAW.

In a way, law firm librarians are also competing with each others and surely our lawyers would be glad to know they've hired the best person for that job.

Like most law firm librarians, it is my responsibility to make sure that people in my organization have the information resources they need to do their work.

OFG is an ongoing discussion about the challenges law firm librarians face and strategies for surmounting them.

On Firmer Ground is a brand new blog site by and for law firm librarians.

This was the one major Canadian English news title that was not accessible through FPinfomart and was a major reason law firm librarians have not, to date, made this their primary news research source.

Law firm librarians may no longer maintain print collections, but they have compensated by expanding their roles into new areas of information management such as knowledge management, business information, competitive analysis and marketing support.

Last year's Law Librarian Survey from The American Lawyer revealed that 31 percent of law firm librarians were moving in the direction of choosing a single electronic legal research vendor, up from 18 percent the year before.

Private law librarians (ie, law firm librarians) are closely attuned to the practice in their firms, often specialized in one area of law (eg, labour or criminal or business law) and removed from the hurly - burly of court.

Canadian law firm librarians have an increasing challenge finding historical stock trading prices.

Considering the hours academic and firm librarians spend each year teaching students how to use QL / Lexis effectively they should be paying us per student!

From large - firm librarian after large - firm librarian, I heard the same thing: Fastcase is now a key part of their legal - research line - up.

«E-LawLibrary Weblog is the blog of law firm librarian and solo blogger Edison Ellenberger from Cleveland, Ohio.

I know that in the law world things are different, in that librarians are relied on heavily, both in the academy and in the firms (I've forgotten how many times recent grads have dropped by the library and mentioned how their firm librarian has «saved» them.)

About once a year, our firm librarian drops off a revised edition of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The 2007 large law firm librarian survey is out.

I wonder how the law firm librarian role as «trusted adviser» will adapt to the type of change outsourced services would bring to an organization.

One of my favourite tasks as a firm librarian is to provide training (formal) and mentoring (informal) to articling students on gathering materials to answer legal research problems.

I imagine that Slawyers, being those with an intellectual bent who read widely on the web and elsewhere, already know about Patrick Lamb's recent ABA New Normal column titled «Does It Pay to Hire a Law Firm Librarian?»

If you are a firm librarian, this means the firm's client is your client.

The programme will give students a foundation in LRW that still leaves lots of room for our instructors in the upper year Advanced LRW classes, and our law firm librarian and research lawyer colleagues to build on.

As a law firm librarian, I rely on law society libraries, locally and in other jurisdictions, their services and collections, to supplement and augment what my team and I provide to our lawyers.