The Tao of Law Librarianship: If the Books Go, Will They Still Want Us?
Connie Crosby’s column returns with an insightful clarion call about the work in which we must engage now, collectively, to clarify, market and invigorate our profession.
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Connie Crosby is the founder of Crosby Group Consulting, started in January 2008 to help organizations and individuals visualize and start their social networking and knowledge management projects. Prior to creating Crosby Group, she was a library manager in a major Toronto law firm. A prolific writer, Connie is a founding member of the co-operative law and technology blog Slaw.ca and also contributes to the international blog law.librarians. She is an instructor with the Professional Learning Centre at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, teaching continuing education courses on social networking tools. She is also a teacher with the Special Libraries Association Click University. She has served as President of the Toronto Association of Law Libraries and on the executive board of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries. Read Connie's personal blog.
The Tao of Law Librarianship – Keeping Up With Social Networking Tools
Connie Crosby gives us an insider’s view on a collection of Web 2.0 tools that librarians are using to connect, communicate, and stay on top of new developments.
Discovering the Latest in Web 2.0 Developments
Connie Crosby’s presentation illustrates and recommends a range of innovative applications that can be applied in any library setting to enhance, expand and diversify the dissemination of services and support for users.
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Using RSS Feeds for New Book Titles – Calling All Publishers
Connie Crosby suggests that publishers implement RSS feeds for new product announcements to help stem the tide of current awareness updates that often end up in the circular file.
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Becoming A Wiki Warrior
Connie Crosby recommends wikis for a group of people working toward a consensus, whether it be creating an final project plan or a proposed working list for a department, office or practice group program, or coming to jointly agreed-upon wording in a document.
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Reaching Across the Generations in the Profession
Connie Crosby addresses the evolving professional roles and expectations, goals and perspectives of librarians between Baby Boom and Generation X.
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Flickr is the Web Photo Tool Preferred by Superheroes and Librarians
Connie Crosby interviews Libraryman about how he uses the popular web-based photo sharing application, and its substantial value to the profession as teaching, training and communications application.
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Reining In Your Inner Change Freak
Connie Crosby is Library Manager at WeirFoulds LLP in Toronto, Canada. She is a regular contributor to Slaw, a co-operative weblog about Canadian legal research and information technology, writes her own self-titled blogs for law librarians. and is the Canadian correspondent on Jim Milles’ law library podcast Check This Out! She is Co-Chair of the Northeast Regional Law Libraries Meeting to be held in Toronto – October 17-21, 2007, and currently serves on the Executive Board of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.
The Tao of Law Librarianship: The Truth About Blogging
Connie Crosby is Library Manager at WeirFoulds LLP in Toronto, Canada. She is a regular contributor to Slaw, a co-operative weblog about Canadian legal research and information technology, writes her own self-titled blogs for law librarians. and is the Canadian correspondent on Jim Milles’ law library podcast Check This Out! She is Co-Chair of the Northeast Regional Law Libraries Meeting to be held in Toronto – October 17-21, 2007, and currently serves on the Executive Board of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Librarian on the Verge of KM
Connie Crosby discusses the many paths that lead to implementing knowledge management solutions, as well as the collaborative process and applications already in use at many firms that that represent a useful foundation upon which to build and expand future programs and goals.