AALL has made available four archived Webinars presented October 2008 - January 2009 in the Members Only Section of AALLNET: Twenty Essentials for the Effective Speaker ($25) How to Train Without Showing Up ($25) Law Firm Library Budgeting for Hard......

Wow. I've always been amazed by bizarre and/or offensive and/or illegal interview behavior, having witnessed an abundance of it over the years during faculty searches. But I've never really considered the potential weirdness involved with grad school interviews (and here, I'm not counting the time i...

And now, for another exciting post of links and short comments: I’ve always been aware of having been gifted with a pretty powerful attention span. I have always kind of assumed it came from becoming a reader at a very young age, but I guess it’s equally plausible that things are actuall...

How do you search and find academic papers that are in a filing cabinet? I am looking for something that runs on a mac (similar to endnote but better) that I can use to keep track of and search the academic papers I have stored in a filing cabinet in my office. For pdf's I use spotlight to search an...

A while ago I read this interesting presentation on Web 2.0 in academic contexts (teaching, research, libraries) by Lambert Heller when it occurred to me that I have recently adopted a new Web 2.0 tool myself that I am finding increasingly useful: Twitter. Now I’m perfectly aware that my disco...

1. The Chronicle has a fun article, "13 reasons why colleges are in this mess" Some of my personal favorites are #5 "overbuilt", #6 bowed to boosters, and #11 built duplicative centers. 2. The WSJ has a sobering article about the financial counter-productiveness (for most schools) of the upcoming NC...

Keith R. Solomon, Theo C.M. Brock, Dick De Zwart, Scott D. Dyer, Leo Posthuma, Sean Richards, Hans Sanderson, Paul Sibley "Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals" CRC | 2008-05-23 | ISBN: 1420073907 | 408 pages | PDF | 6 MB A wide-ranging compilation of tech...

My MBA experience has completely shifted this term.  My priorities have changed and my outlook is not the same as it was.  Last term work was my priority and I felt that the MBA was just very time-consuming.  I went home to Boston for 3 weeks over Christmas and I couldn’t bear to...

For any students out there who aspire to graduate education to launch a career in this discipline, allow me to offer the one bit of advice that no one wants to tell you: Don't. I really hate to be the one who rains on the parade, but the stark reality is that the Academy is a collapsing profession--...

A number of people have expressed their interest in the Aramaic classes that are offered over at Aramaic Designs, but that the price (in this economy) has been prohibitive. Because of this a new class is in development that should be ready in the next couple of months that will be on the topic of th...