LibTech Life
"Notes from the life of a law library technician."
Author: Rob Golbeck is library technician at the Vancouver law firm Clark Wilson, where he splits his time between the library and records management. He is also chair of the Library Technicians & Assistants Interest Group of the British Columbia Library Association.
Blawg Related Categories: International Law • Internet Law • Law Libraries • International • North America • Canada • Librarian
Recent Posts from LibTech Life
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Community Divas: “a podcast about communities”
Connie Crosby and Eden Spodek released the first episode of a new podcast earlier this week called Community Divas. It’s “a podcast about communities” with a focus on social media tools and their use in…
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A survey for people who make websites
Attention web masters, designers, developers, writers, editors, and everyone else who makes websites: A List Apart has just released their 2008 Survey For People Who Make Websites! The survey aims to get a picture of how…
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Submit to the power of the webmaster
HA! I might have to get myself one of these.
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Report compares legislative tracking services
A new report released earlier this week compares two British Columbia legislative tracking services, QP LegalEze and Quickscribe. Published by Crosby Group Consulting and commissioned by Stem Legal Web Enterprises Inc. the paper aims “to…
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Featured on Inter-Alia
Many thanks to Tom Mighell for selecting LibTech Life as the Blawg of the Day over at Inter-Alia! This blog joins a lengthy and rather impressive list of other blawgs that span a variety of law-related…
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Michael Geist at UBC: “E-Publishing and the Law”
Yesterday evening I attended a lecture at UBC’s St. John’s College by Michael Geist, hosted by the Canadian Journalism Federation, on “E-publishing and the Law”. Dr. Geist spoke about what he referred to as the…
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Speaking at Langara
I have two speaking engagements this month at Langara College. On Thursday I will be representing LTAIG as part of a panel discussion on the benefits of association membership. Other panelists will represent the British Columbia Library Association,…
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Micro-blogging for law libraries
There’s a cool experiment happening over at law.librarians. Using the Prologue template on WordPress, law.librarians is a collaborative micro-blog that allows contributors to publish short entries - in this case for sharing resources, posting news,…
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Steve Matthews on law firm SEO
Steve Matthews, founder of Stem Legal (and former Knowledge Services Director at my firm) was interviewed for this week’s LexBlog Q & A on Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) for law firms. SEO is a topic that…
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Microsoft sets sights on Yahoo! Inc.
Microsoft has made a proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. It’s all just speculation at this point; according to Download Squad, Yahoo!’s Board of Directors is evaluating the offer, while stock in the company initially jumped 60%…