I was working in a law firm when I was a teenager and someone said, “you need to learn to take a compliment.” It’s something that I still consciously think about because I often feel compelled to reply with some self-deprecation, and often am conflicted about whether the compliment is really deserved or not....
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Best practices is a term frequently used by organizations to suggest they know what they are doing or that they have checked to see what other people are doing. Lawyers understand best practices – in essence, it is finding the precedent and applying it rather than using losing arguments. I was recently involved in...
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I don’t profess to be smarter than the average person but there are times when conventional wisdom or utterances of, that’s just common sense strike me as, well, dumb. It was interesting to read Duncan Watt’s Everything is Obvious … Once You Know the Answer and get some insights on decision making and judgment based on research....
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Planning is under way for the 2012 Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual meeting. We’ll be meeting in Toronto in May and I’ve been working with some colleagues on the program planning. Our planning has started to take on a decidedly Google flavor over time. We started with a Google Sites wiki as a...
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Here is my review of this junior high courtroom mock trial simulation published by Prufrock Press in Waco, TX. Teachers who are introducing their grades 6-8 students to the U.S. criminal justice system will benefit from this thorough guide to putting on a classroom mock trial. The showcase trial covered, based on the story...
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The Ontario Courthouse Librarians’ Association (OCLA) met today in Toronto and asked me to give a presentation following the sites/minutes pattern. We’ll see if they do THAT again! They are peers and friends of mine from across the province, 48 libraries strong ranging from solo part-time librarians to multi-staff libraries with libarians who are...
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