Day archives: July 1st, 1998

Features – Teaching Charlie, Esq. to Surf

Teaching Charlie, Esq. to Surf By Kenneth E. Johnson

Kenneth E. Johnson is Information Services Project Leader at Mayer, Brown and Platt in Chicago. Ken is author of “The Lawyer’s Guide to Creating Web Pages,” published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section, and the forthcoming “Lawyers Quick Guide to E-Mail” (available July 1998). He is Assistant Editor of the ABA’s Network 2d newsletter, Webmaster of the TECHSHOW 98 Web site, and coeditor of the ABA/LPMS online newsletter page.

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Subjects: Features, Training

Notes from the Technology Trenches – July, 1998

Notes from the Technology Trenches By Elizabeth H. Klampert

Elizabeth H. Klampert is the Director of Library Services for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Klampert was formerly a litigator for five years, specializing in professional liability litigation. Before attending law school, she was a corporate librarian for twelve years, holding management positions in libraries in a number of large organizations, including Rainier National Bank in Seattle, Deloitte & Touche, and Merrill Lynch, both in New York. She received both her BA in English and MLS from the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her JD at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

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Subjects: Notes from the Technology Trenches

Guide on the Side – The Elevator Speech – It’s There for You

Guide on the Side The Elevator Speech–It’s There for You By Marie Wallace

Marie Wallace has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a librarian, beginning in 1951 in academia with the University of California and transitioning in 1971 into the private law library world until her 1995 retirement from O’Melveny & Myers. She is the 1997 recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries’ highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. Throughout her professional life, Marie has been a guiding force in the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, Practising Law Institute’s programs for law librarians and Teaching Legal Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL).

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Subjects: Guide on the Side, Presentation Skills

Latest Links – Contents Pages from Law Reviews, etc….

(Posted July 1, 1998; Archived July 15, 1998)

mb.gifContents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html

This university law school produced site provides online versions of the tables of contents of 750+ law reviews and scholarly journals related to the law. U.S. as well as foreign titles are included. You can select U.S. or non U.S. contents pages for viewing if you wish. Only journals received in the past three months are listed on the site. The files are updated daily. The contents pages from a journal appear the day following receipt by the Tarlton Law Library. The entire archive can be searched by keyword.

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Subjects: Internet Resources - Web Links, Latest Links

Features – Search Engines for Intranets

Search Engines for Intranets by Nina Platt

Nina Platt is an independent consultant in library automation and information management. Her past experience includes 10+ years as technical services manager and systems librarian in the law office environment. In addition to her work as a consultant, she writes and speaks frequently about information resources and technology, has developed a number of Web sites and full-text databases and continues to search for better ways to integrate resources, making research more cost-effective. Compiler of Piper State Court Directory, her most recent project is the online newsletter, ILSR : Integrated Library System Reports.

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Subjects: Features, Intranets, Search Engines
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