Sentences with phrase «legal information professionals»

Specifically, this study considers the roles, skills and competencies of legal information professionals as knowledge managers, digital librarians and trainers of legal research skills in a changing information environment.

I think this is a fabulous opportunity for Canadian legal information professionals to get more involved in the free access to law movement.

By seeking to emulate him, we are better legal information professionals.

These are just a few of the many ways we can recognize legal information professionals.

It appeared on his blog recently, part of a thoughtful, longer post about the need for legal information professionals throughout the world to be more directly engaged in a conversation about mapping the future of legal information.

They also reissued a major revision of a previously published guide on internet research.The Guides are free and available to law librarians and legal information professionals as well as law firm administrators who are interested in learning about best practices for managing information services.

Legal Research and Writing is very attractively priced, and will appeal to a broad range of readers, from legal information professionals to students.

I also find funny the concept of «Managing legal information professionals», ah well, let's read before judging...

In our upcoming talk on Sunday at the American Association of Law Libraries conference, I will be recommending that legal information professionals read from knowledge management thought leaders, whether inside the law industry or from other industries.

To foster the education of legal information professionals in the United States and China, CAFLL organizes a biennial conference.

The tricky part for women legal information professionals is to communicate that message to others in a way that mitigates backlash.

The Communications Committee identifies issues that require CALL / ACBD Executive to respond to external advocacy of legal information professionals through various methods of communication.

The challenge of completely eliminating the routing of print newsletters was noted repeatedly — even when a digital version is available — legal information professionals still struggle with lawyer attachment to print.

Written and compiled by an experienced law librarian, with chapters contributed by other seasoned legal information professionals, this book tells you what it's like to work in a particular work environment - ranging from the court house library to a law firm library, the law society to a legislative library.

For seven years the PLLIP Summit has been a major event that enables law librarians and legal information professionals spend a rare day immersed with colleagues in a fast paced learning environment to help them optimize support for the evolving needs of lawyers and law firms.

On the negative side, so many of the projects described and ideas advanced are easily achievable within the competencies of Canadian legal information professionals but (at least to my knowledge) are largely absent, or at the very least, well below the radar.

As the disintermediation of legal information professionals, the unbundling of legal services, and the participation of citizens in policy - and lawmaking proceed, the need can only grow for greater knowledge of how context affects individuals» understanding and use of legal information, and for systems that effectively provide nonlawyers with relevant legal contextual information.

I was part of a panel with Stephanie Godley Murphy, manager of research services at Ropes & Gray, on «Turning Challenges into Opportunities: New Directions for Legal Information Professionals.»

Despite these questionable publishing practices and the diminishing integrity of the products, we — law librarians and other legal information professionals — continue to buy them for our libraries and to promote them to our students and clients.

There is a strong parallel with law librarians — or, as we're calling you today, legal information professionals.

To my mind, there has never been a more exciting or important time to be a legal information professional.

Another not entirely facetious suggestion was to rename it as the Society of Legal Information Professionals (SLIP).

One popular suggestion was to add Professionals to the name (Association of Legal Information Professionals) to differentiate it from other legal information groups (vendors, etc.) and add an emphasis on members.

Legal information professionals and users should not feel singled out though, because legal information is not the only boring information out there.

I wrote about this back in 2014 in a post, Turning Challenges Into Opportunities: New Directions for Legal Information Professionals.

Are we legal information professionals collaborators, performers in a production that promotes an exclusive system, a system that is in neither the profession's nor society's best interests?

That is Robert Ambrogi «s position in this great post from last month, «Turning Challenges into Opportunities: New Directions for Legal Information Professionals.»

«This research also considers the effect the changing information environment has on the role of the legal information professional, which includes an investigation of the reasons why legal information professionals can and should support lawyers in their legal research activities.

These resources are helpful if you are a foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL) librarian or legal information professional or specialist or someone who works with FCIL materials or a generalist who gets FCIL - related questions re from time to time.

It is fascinating to imagine where this technology will lead us as legal information professionals, and how it will alter the everyday practices of the legal profession and the future generations of legal researchers and practitioners.

On the other hand, as a legal information professional, I prefer being «consulted» rather than «managed».

When reading your comment I realized that I had automatically equated the expression «legal information professionals» with lawyers.

... For the past two decades law librarians and legal information professionals have been assessing products and developing in house solutions to support virtual library resources.

The answer to the question of what this means to legal information professionals (a «pink collar» profession) is that they must make the value they bring visible to their organizations.

Has the candidate received recognition outside the country or international institution in which he or she works as an FCIL librarian or legal information professional?

And it makes for a healthy community of legal information professionals.

Separately it's also worth pointing out that law librarian Greg Lambert, morphed Mr. Corcoran's «legal department concepts for metrics and benchmarking onto the world of legal information professionals,» in a post for 3 Geeks and a Law Blog: What are the Useful Metrics & Benchmarks for Information Professionals?

What is clear is that the issue of publicizing and affirming the relevancy and value of law librarians and legal information professionals must continue to be addressed.