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Assistant Director, Research and Instruction, at Boley Law Library, Lewis and Clark Law School, in Portland, Oregon.

Panel on Advocacy & Accommodation in the Digital Environment Rescheduled for 3/19

By Mari Cheney Posted on February 19, 2021 Posted in Posts No Comments

LIT-SIS is proud to announce our upcoming panel on Advocacy & Accommodation in the Digital Environment, and we welcome all AALL members to attend. Join Kenton Brice, Mari Cheney, and Rena Seidler for a conversation with Amanda Watson as they …

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Teaching Students to Avoid Legal Research Clickbait

By Mari Cheney Posted on February 1, 2021 Posted in Posts

In legal research, we’ve all gone down rabbit holes: we start researching contracts and end up in wills; we start in landlord/tenant issues and end up in torts. It happens to the best of us, even those of us trained …

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The Best Tech to Give This Holiday Season

By Mari Cheney Posted on December 14, 2020 Posted in Posts

Looking for a last-minute holiday gift to give your tech-loving friend or family member? From high-tech to low-tech and even tech-adjacent, you’ve come to the right place! Here’s last year’s list in case you want to expand your options. From …

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CS-SIS is now LIT-SIS

By Mari Cheney Posted on October 27, 2020 Posted in Posts

Guest post by Amanda Watson, president of LIT-SIS, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library, and Assistant Professor of Law the University of Houston Law Center.  It’s official! CS-SIS is now LIT-SIS: Legal Innovation & Technology SIS. Two years ago, our …

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Controlled Digital Lending Panel Recap

By Mari Cheney Posted on July 6, 2020 Posted in Posts

Guest post by Amanda Watson, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law. On June 3 and June 5, CS-SIS organized two talks on Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). The first focused on technology and the second on …

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Oral Arguments at SCOTUS During Quarantine

By Mari Cheney Posted on May 18, 2020 Posted in Posts

Guest post by Amanda Watson, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law. “It’s the way we’ve always done it.” Law librarians, like most people, are generally creatures of habit. It isn’t surprising, since so much of …

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Librarians (and their Pets) Send a Video Message to Students

By Mari Cheney Posted on May 12, 2020 Posted in Posts

Thank you to Nancy Bellafante, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, for this guest post. The Biddle Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School responded to the COVID-19 crisis by …

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Virtual Study Rooms with LibCal and Zoom

By Mari Cheney Posted on April 30, 2020 Posted in Posts

On April 10, I sent a note to two co-workers about virtual study rooms that said: “this is a weird yet maybe good idea.” Twenty days later we’ve not only implemented virtual study rooms but have heard positive feedback from …

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Remote Cataloging

By Mari Cheney Posted on March 31, 2020 Posted in Posts

Guest post by Sarah Lin, Information Architect and Digital Librarian, RStudio, Inc.  For eleven years, I worked at a large global law firm, Reed Smith, and during that entire time, I cataloged books that were not located where I was …

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Managing From a Distance

By Mari Cheney Posted on March 18, 2020 Posted in Posts

Thanks to Amanda Watson, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and Vice-Chair of CS-SIS, for this post.  Let’s be honest: distance management is strange. It requires a set of …

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