All work and no play….

Blogging may be a little sparse here until the Blogger-in-Chief gets back from visiting family and friends in Germany.

Is Tenure Justified?

Here’s an interesting bit from the Wednesday, July 25, 2007 edition of eSkeptic: Is tenure justified?

Free information

Free information for the taking | CNET News.com
Thanks to the Virtual Chase for the link.

Library space planning

The law school is in the very beginning phases of planning a new building and we librarians have begun thinking about how a new library should look  and what it should contain if a new building ever does gets built.  Betsy McKenzie has some advice to guide some of our thinking: Out of the Jungle: [...]

Old school legal research

From law.com, an article on how to bring associates into the law library.

Learn the ins and outs of patent and trademark searching

The University of Baltimore Law Library is offering a FREE one-day seminar on patent and trademark searching on Tuesday, August 7. The UB Law Library recently became a Patent and Trademark Depository Library – only the second in the state! To celebrate, we are hosting a full day of training by [...]

Bar Exam Advice: Best diet before a test

 From Lawsagna comes this bit of advice on the best diet before a test. This could be  handy for you folks taking the bar exam next week.

Second Life and Legal Education

The folks at the Law School Innovation Blog interview Prof. Elizabeth Townsend-Gard and Rachel Goda. who talk about how they used Second Life to teach property. Very interesting stuff.

Stress-busting ideas

This one is for all of y’all studying for the bar:
Slow Leadership: Stress-busting ideas: The one-minute check-in

Bar Passage Standards

Law librarian blog Out of the Jungle points out an article that ought to interest the administration at our law school:  New Bar Passage Standards.