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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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