Category: librarian

Why Web 2.0? The opportunities and challenges for the legal sector

I’ve foolishly been allowed to organise a training event for the Scottish Law Librarians Group, and if you’re a member of the SLLG, it’s free for you to attend, yay!

Why Web 2.0? The opportunities and challenges for the legal sector

You are cordially invited to a seminar which looks beyond the hype at the challenges and opportunities Web 2.0 provides for information professionals in the legal sector. James Mullan will explore some of the technologies that are currently available and provide practical examples of how these can be used within an Information Services unit. There will then follow a chance for those who wish to investigate these tools to experiment with them on the computers provided, and have informal discussions with James about any of the topics covered in his presentation.

James Mullan works as an Information Professional at a large city law firm and is an active blogger, owning the Running Librarian Blog. He is a well known Web 2.0 evangelist and administrates BIALL’s blog and Facebook profile. He has also spoken at numerous events including Knowledge Management for the Legal Profession and Online Information and has written widely on the subject of harnessing collective intelligence by means of Web 2.0 technologies…

The first half of the seminar is expected to take between 45 minutes to an hour, with computers and refreshments available for the following hour of the second half of the event.

Date and time: 3.30pm, Friday 20th June
Venue: Edinburgh Training Centre, St. Mary’s Street,
Edinburgh (location maps and directions available
from: http://www.edintrain.com/location.asp )
Cost: Free to SLLG members

Thanks to James for agreeing to make the trip up to the Frozen North!

Tally-ho to Dublin!

I forgot to confirm that I’ve been allowed to skip off to Dublin in June for the BIALL Conference, for law librarian-type fun, games, and edumacation.

I’m looking forward to it – a chance to catch up with the people I already know from Scotland who’re going (we like a good conference jaunt, there’ll be anything up to a dozen of the Scottish Law Librarians Group going that I know of, and as there’s only about 100 of us in total, that’s a good showing!), and to meet some of the people I know online, who I haven’t actually met in person yet. I’m hoping they’ll be nice to me and overlook my inner geekiness…I wonder if any of them can be bribed with tablet, Edinburgh Rock, and C U Jimmy hats….

and you know, what? I may even….learn something new!
Although I think Guinness may be involved at some point, and I’ve never found that to be much of a memory aid before… 😉

Current strangest blog search terms

I do get hits on here from some very odd search terms (which has actually prodded me about another point, to be blogged on later), but I have to say, todays is probably a winner, just for the disturbing thoughts about the searcher that it brings to mind:

“ruminants and librarians”

Is there someone out there looking for librarians that chew the cud? Or do they think that somewhere, there’s a librarian in charge of a library of ruminants, all peacefully grazing in fields according to their classification?

Enquiring minds want to know….

Updating the UK Library Bloggers wiki

In response to my original post about needing help to double check entries and add last visit dates for the UK Library BLoggers wiki, the lovely Jo and Christine have kindly volunteered to help out, yay!!!

So, over the next wee while, we’ll be revisiting all the blogs already on there, and checking the original quick synopsis is accurate, and adding in a date of last visit.

In my meanderings last night I found that already, in the month since I’d first visited, one blog had shut down and moved to another address with a new focus, and a new university departmental blog had started…it’s all go with us library bloggers!

So thanks again to Christine and Jo for giving their spare time to help with this task!