Reading Time: 4 minutes
I was still traveling so I missed the AALL announcement about this artificial intelligence (AI) keyword glossary (members only). It was a project I had worked on, so of course, I was glad to see it get shared publicly. But it had also been a great collaboration, which is not something
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The Distraction of Magical Thinking
Reading Time: 7 minutes
I am sure I am not alone in my experience with magical thinking in law libraries. I’m sure it’s not unique to law libraries either. We operate in an environment where the people who oversee our libraries often know how to use legal information, perform legal research. There is a danger
Embrace Our Robot Underlings
Reading Time: 9 minutes
I was able to participate recently in a professional event involving lots of smart librarians discussing AI and law libraries. At the end, one outcome I committed to was to list what my law library was doing and how AI might impact those tasks. Here’s how that progressed.
Sometimes saying something
The Productivity Spiral
Reading Time: 4 minutes
At the turn of the century, I worked at the American Bar Association. We had successfully evaded the Y2K turmoil, dot-com was ascendant, and legal technology was having a bit of a boom. There seemed to be lots of emerging companies (until the dot com bubble burst) and the market was
What If It Seems Pointless?
Reading Time: 12 minutes
I updated our governance board last month on our last awareness campaign. We have been placing marketing ads on public transit across the county. The idea was that we needed to bolster awareness post-lockdown. I struggle with the purpose of marketing, because I think it tends to be very woolly in
Role of Web Search in Legal Research
Reading Time: 9 minutes
In the before times, we were wary of guiding people to legal research with web search engines. Over time, Google and other generic, commercial web search engines have become commonly used tools in legal research. All signs indicate that we need to rethink, perhaps not their place, but their usage in