Legal Research

Toronto Catastrophe Slam - Free Public Registration Slots Open

Posted on March 25, 2008
Last week I told you about the Toronto Catastrophe Slam taking place on Sunday, March 30, 2008.30 slots have now been opened for free public registration to the Catastrophe Slam, and the full 3 day Digifest event is available for for $25. You can register for digifest here: http://www...

LISTen Podcast - Interview with Joshua Neff on Library Camp Kansas

Posted on March 24, 2008
LISTen host Stephen Kellat asked me for a contribution to this week's podcast. To me the most exciting, positive thing happening last week was Library Camp Kansas which followed closely on the heals of Library Camp Syracuse. So, I asked the organizers of Library Camp Kansas for an interview...

Was I Too Harsh?

Posted on March 22, 2008
I was reading through comments on the LISNews blog last night. There was one post about public libraries being turned into video arcades. Essentially public libraries have been introducing gaming into their libraries to attract a younger crowd, and there has been much criticism from some people about the direction this is taking libraries...

Toronto Catastrophe Slam

Posted on March 22, 2008
This message was sent out via the Torcamp Google Group email list yesterday. If you work in a local public or academic library in particular, this may be of interest to you:THE TORONTO CATASTROPHE SLAM"a day of dialogue over Toronto disaster scenarios"...

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Blogger Get Together at AALL 2008

Posted on March 20, 2008
Will you be at the annual conference for the American Association of Law Libraries? If so, Barbara Fullerton told me about this blogger meetup:It's time to mark your calendars for the AALL's Third Annual Bloggers Get Together!Time: 5-6 p.m.Date: Sunday, July 13thPlace: TBAGuest Speaker: TBA (we are inviting bloggers from the Portland area)Come share your ideas and meet the other law librarian bloggers! Open to all bloggers and potential bloggers...

Twitter - What It Is and How I am Using It

Posted on March 20, 2008
Twitter is an interesting social networking tool. It looks deceptively simple--like instant messaging, except that the 140-character messages are sent to a large group of followers. It is a bit like the status line in Facebook, but it is so much more...

A Twitter Word Association Game: Collaboration, Communication, Community

Posted on March 19, 2008
I have been doing some thinking about and writing for my forthcoming business website. The words seemed to be a little too flat, however. I therefore threw a few words out to my friends in my social network on Twitter and asked them to play a word association game...

Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference - Don't Miss the Early Bird Deadline!

Posted on March 18, 2008
Tomorrow is the early bird deadline for the CALL Conference -- don't miss it!I think this may be the sleeper event of the season. When I went to book a room in one of the conference hotels today, I found it was booked up. That means lots of people have booked! Fortunately they have added a block of rooms at another hotel (I appreciate that they have found more space, and that I don't have to hunt around for it myself)...

Attend the Annual Conference for the International Association of Law Libraries with the IALL Scholarship Programs

Posted on March 18, 2008
Lyonette Louis-Jacques sent this message around the listservs today. Note the deadline is May 15th. I encourage you to apply! More details on this page. I definitely would apply if I qualified. This year's conference is taking place in Puerto Rico...

The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies

Posted on March 17, 2008
Legal technology experts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell are set to release their new book The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together through the American Bar Association.The table of contents (available in PDF form from the description) shows the book covers a wide range of subjects including:collaboration inside and outside the officethe initial implementation process including something they are calling the "collaboration audio", setting priorities and getting buy-inthe various aspects involved in collaborating on documentscollaboration on cases, transactions and other projectsvarious platforms used for collaboration, including email, extranets, intranets, wikis, and a range of other collaboration toolsdeveloping a strategy for collaboratingpractical issues such as ethics, metadata, ownership and control and potential pitfallsscenarios for various types of practices and legal departmentscreating a collaboration cultureresourcesThis looks like a fantastic resource...

Happy St. Paddy's Day To All My Friends!

Posted on March 17, 2008
To those of you raising a pint on this fine day: Sláinte!

Movers and Shakers 2008 announced in the American Library Journal

Posted on March 16, 2008
The March 15, 2008 issue of Library Journal includes this year's Movers and Shakers. Congratulations to those selected!From the 2009 nomination guidelines:emerging leaders in the library world. Our eighth annual Movers & Shakers supplement will profile 50-plus up-and-coming individuals from across the United States and Canada who are innovative, creative, and making a difference...

Talkshoe News: New Facebook Application

Posted on March 12, 2008
As predicted by William Spaetzel (see the comments), Talkshoe has launched a new Facebook application (you will need a free Facebook ID to view this page).According to Greg Schwartz who hosts my favourite show on Talkshoe, Uncontrolled Vocabulary, "this will allow you to listen live to Uncontrolled Vocabulary and participate in the chat room during the live call without ever leaving Facebook...

Friday Roundup (March 7/08) - An REM video duo

Posted on March 07, 2008
Before I was a book and computer geek, I was a music geek and even DJ'ed for a short period on campus radio. To kick off your weekend (March break?) I offer a couple of REM video selections. Have you seen their ninetynights promo? Started January 1st, ninety video clips are being released one a day in HD (available for the one day only)...

Upcoming Courses: Professional Learning Centre, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

Posted on March 06, 2008
I had a couple of messages today from my friend Eva Kupidura at the FIS PLC at the University of Toronto with an update on courses. There are two new course being introduced, plus space still available in three others for March.One of the classes is my own Social Networking Tools...

Connie Crosby on Podcamp: LISTen Episode #11

Posted on March 03, 2008
In this week's episode of the LISNews.org postcast LISTen, StephenK interviews me about Podcamp and the lessons we can take away for libraries. He throws me a couple of "curve-ball" questions, so you can listen how I handle them.Cheers,Connie

Waiting for News from TalkShoe

Posted on March 03, 2008
I have been using the web show hosting platform TalkShoe a fair bit lately. If you read this blog, you know that I participate in the library show Uncontrolled Vocabulary as much as possible. As well, we used TalkShoe for our last episodes of the Podcamp Toronto Podcast (we recorded Episode #14 last night which should be out soon)...

LinkedIn Has a New Look

Posted on February 28, 2008
Chris Brogan points out that business social network platform LinkedIn has a new look in his blog post LinkedIN Gets Pretty. He says:So the fact that they gave themselves a nice facelift, added personal photos to the site, and have quietly added some new functionality, comes as a pleasant bonus...

JD Supra - Creating Your Profile

Posted on February 28, 2008
Just a clarification on my previous post yesterday about JD Supra: your profile goes live once you start adding documents. This makes complete sense to me--they give promotional space to those who are willing to participate, willing to share. It is a great business model, one which no doubt we will see more of elsewhere...

Uncontrolled Vocabulary - Library Podcast on the Move

Posted on February 28, 2008
The library industry podcast which I have talked about in the past, Uncontrolled Vocabulary created and hosted by Greg Schwartz, has moved! It is now located at the URL http://uncontrolledvocabulary.com . Congratulations, Greg!The show is recorded most Wednesday nights, 10 pm EST using Talkshoe...

Sharing Legal Documents - JD Supra Goes Live

Posted on February 27, 2008
In my presentation about the use of wikis in law firms to Toronto Wiki Tuesdays a couple weeks ago, one of the audience members suggested that it was only a matter of time before firms start sharing precedents in some sort of free web system. It put me in mind of JD Supra which I had previewed last September...

University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies Professor Participating in New Research Project: Surveillance and Social Sorting

Posted on February 26, 2008
More news from the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto: Professor Andrew Clement is one of eight academic researchers participating in a project that has been awarded a $2.5 million Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant...

Why Podcamp Toronto Will Be Cool

Posted on February 22, 2008
Thanks to Chris Brogan for sharing these memories of Podcamp Toronto from last year. So many of the people pictured I had barely met or were complete strangers, and now I count so many of them as friends. It has been a crazy/strange journey through social media...

Via ooVoo: Pistachio on a Presentation That Rocks MUCH More

Posted on February 22, 2008
Last Friday I talked about My ooVoo Day and trying out this fantastic new video chat tool ooVoo. Well, yesterday I put it to the test by attending a workshop put on by Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting (in the land of Twitter, we just call her @pistachio which is kind of fun and gives her lots of street cred I'm sure)...

FIS Announces Eight New Library, Information and Museum Studies Professors and Lecturers - University of Toronto

Posted on February 22, 2008
As alumna of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, I like to check in periodically as to what is happening with the program. They have had a standing call for new faculty for quite as while, so I am pleased to see an announcement on the front of the website explaining who have now been brought in...

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays - Photos and Write-up

Posted on February 17, 2008
Thanks to Martin Cleaver for posting photos and another write-up of my presentation last week on his blog.He counted 16 people who showed up in the snow storm. This is a tremendous number for this group. I can only imagine how big we could grow with more focussed discussions and better weather!

A Look at the Free Software and Open Source Movements

Posted on February 17, 2008
Joel Alleyne has just posted his Extreme Tech column for Slaw: Why You Should Take a Look at the Free / Open Source Software Movement. While I support the Open Source movement in principle, I have to admit not being personally involved and not knowing a lot about it...

Podcamp Toronto Podcast Episode #10

Posted on February 15, 2008
Episode #10 has now been posted over at the Podcamp Toronto Blog. This is our second attempt at using Talkshoe to host, and I think we are getting better at it. I had better control of the conversation compared to last time. I may just be getting the hang of this podcasting thing! ;-)Cheers,Connie

Friday Roundup (Feb. 15/08): Five Social Media Sites to Kick Off Your Weekend

Posted on February 15, 2008
One thing I am loving right now is having the time to try out new media tools and better explore some old favourites. Here's what I've been up to lately: Joseph Jaffee on OoVooOriginally uploaded by ConnieC Podcamp Toronto - I've been helping organize this new social media unconference coming up next weekend (February 23 & 24, 2008)...

Do Wikis Belong in Law Firms?

Posted on February 14, 2008
Tuesday night I gave a presentation to Toronto Wiki Tuesdays about the use of wikis in law firms. On Monday, to get some additional ideas, I posted a message to Slaw asking for any new examples of wiki use in law firms since I wanted to present more than just wikis I had a hand in myself...

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