Law Librarian Blog

Is devoted to issues related to law libraries, including digital preservation and documentation. The blog covers general news and provides resources for practicing law librarians and those interested in legal research.

Author: Joe Hodnicki, associate director for library operations at the University of Cincinnati Law Library, and Ron Jones, the Electronic Resources & Services Librarian at the University of Cincinnati Law Library, edit the Law Librarian Blog. Both are also listed as contributing editors to Law X.0. Hodnicki is also on the board of advisers for Law School Innovation.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Libraries • University of Cincinnati • Law Professor • Librarian

Recent Posts from Law Librarian Blog

On the Vendor-Law Library Relationship
Check out Alvin Podboy, Director of Library Services at Baker Hostetler, recent article, Legal Information Needs a Little Kedging. [JH]
Professional Reading: Visual Comparison of Search Results: A Censorship Case Study
Visual Comparison of Search Results: A Censorship Case Study by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer has been published in First Monday (July 7, 2008). Here's the abstract: Understanding the qualitative differences between the sets of…
Youtube Videos for Librarians
Laura Milligan has compiled a list of 100 YouTube videos covering tutorials for using library resources, literacy campaigns, outreach programs, plus several videos that poke fun at librarians and the library as a workplace. Check…
Special Criminal Contempt of Congress Act, H.R. 6508, Tossed Into the Bill Hopper
Remember when the House voted in February to hold White House counsel Harriet Mier and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolton in Comtempt of Congress for failing to testify last July before the House…
The Real "Bones" as Expert Witness
On the Fox series "Bones" forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, a/k/a Bones, is brilliant at her profession, less so as an expert witness because she bores juries to death with her technical testimony. Kathy Reichs, the…
FDA Watchdog Site Launched by Current and Former FDA Employees
This takes guts! The recently launched Thoreau-FDA website is operated by current and former US FDA staff who believe public health is being put at unnecessary risk. These concerned civil servants and ex-civil servants have…
U.S. News Law School Rankings: Is Simson's "Enough" Enough?
Brian Leiter (Chicago) and others have demonstrated that the U.S. News methodology for ranking law schools is susceptible to manipulation by law schools and, in general, is a poor measure of a law school's quality…
Researching US and Foreign Law Firms
Chambers 2008 US Law Firm Rankings is a great resource for practitioners searching for co-counsel. law librarians looking for assistance from colleagues, and job hunting law school students because of the number of practice areas…
Professional Reading: Identifying Key Differences Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
Graham Cormode's and Balachander Krishnamurthy's Key Differences Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 has been published in First Monday (June 2, 2008 issue). Here's the abstract: Web 2.0 is a buzzword introduced in 2003–04 which…
Chinese Law Databases
Flora Sapio has compiled a list of 30 Chinese law databases (with very brief descriptions), most in Chinese, some in English such as the Asian Legal Information Institute's Laws of the People's Republic of China…