Huh. Look at that. LLRX.com has an article on Law Library Blogging (here: http://www.llrx.com/columns/tao6.htm ) by another Blogger on this site - Ms Connie Crosby (her blog is here: http://conniecrosby.blogspot.com/ ). Her site is very interesting (as SLaw sites tend to be) with a useful list of links on the side, and it makes me wonder why so many of the great law librarian blogs I've seen since starting to poke around online are Canadian. I wonder if our neighbors to the north are adapting to technology faster, or if the law librarian democraphic is younger, because I sincerely doubt they just have more time on their hands.

Noelle, my best friend, posted this meme on her blog:

Closest Blue Book Meme
1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph.
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find, just the closest blue book.

I'm at work, and the closest book that is blue is "The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation." I suspect I'm the only one who finds this hilarious. Anyway, here's my quote.

"For cases with multiple dispositions, however, the parenthetical identifier is given only when a case is cited as the primary citation. Once given, the parenthetical identifier may be used when the case is cited again. Thus, the following examples are correct:"

I keep on working on this pile of cataloging, but it doesn't seem to get smaller.

And the printer doesn't want to print labels for the books from LA (and who can blame it, really).

And I'm very, very sleepy today.

Tomorrow I am bringing my earphones and my MP3 player. There has to be a better way.

"Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here & get books that will open your eyes, & your ears, & your curiosity, & turn you inside out or outside in." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 5 Ws and an H

Who: Me
What: Didn't have to shelve a huge pile of books
When: Last night
Where: At my little law library
Why: Because the guy who files our legal pocket parts and looseleaf updates did it for me!
How: With great skill and finesse

Bonus W: Who Cares? I do! I hate leaving a messy library overnight, and I was going to have to, because I'd been working on a giant project all day and had hit my cap on my hours.

The 5 Ws and an H

Who: Me
What: Didn't have to shelve a huge pile of books
When: Last night
Where: At my little law library
Why: Because the guy who files our legal pocket parts and looseleaf updates did it for me!
How: With great skill and finesse

Bonus W: Who Cares? I do! I hate leaving a messy library overnight, and I was going to have to, because I'd been working on a giant project all day and had hit my cap on my hours.

One of the great things about this job is that occasionally, I get paid to spend hours surfing the web. Today was one of those days.

I tried out ask.com today - I didn't like it much. I'm not sure if it's because I'm used to searching using Google, or if it's because the groups search was thrown off by the last name of the person I was searching for information on (the last name was Gates, and ask.com tried to sell me gates, even though I had the first and last name in quotes, so it shouldn't have isolated that term). I'll give it another shot, but I think my default search engine will still be Google or Yahoo.

I just tried to edit my links on the sidebar...

I just tried to edit my links on the sidebar, and the changes are showing on my Template page, but not on my blog. That's annoying.

I'll poke at it more later.

*edit in* - it's because my computer was pulling up the cached version. I hit refresh, and now everything displays fine. *Facepalm*

My first post!

I'm not planning to use this as a regular blog (I keep that elsewhere, sorry people), but I do plan to post links and useful law library tips. Mostly so that I remember where all the links are. Think of this as a poor man's (or poor law librarian's) version of J's Scratchpad, but not nearly as cool.

Links to start out with? For library job hunters in the bay area:

http://www.sla.org/chapter/csfo/jobline/jobline.html

http://www.nocall.org/

www.craigslist.com (do a search for "Librarian" in the "jobs" section, and you'll find a bunch of stuff)