RIPS Law Librarian Blog

The end of the semester is upon us! One thing I’ve been thinking about is how to keep in touch with students after the semester ends. At my institution, the legal research instructors spend an entire year with first-year law students, so we form close relationships. So, as legal research instructors, do law librarians owe it to their students to keep in touch after the semest...

What better time to write a blog post than when you are drafting an article on the topic?

Way back in 2013 I read a NY Times article by Adam Liptak lambasting the law review as arcane and not useful to the practice of law (The Lackluster Reviews Lawyers Love to Hate, 10/21/2013).

Immediately, as a good law librarian I was offended. This article ha...

On April 16, I attended Stanford Law School’s CodeX FutureLaw Conference, an annual event that brings together practitioners, judges, legal tech founders, researchers, and others with an interest in the future of legal technology. A theme emerged: AI is being u...

Given how detailed The Bluebook is, it might lull readers into a false sense of security. They might think, “Yes, The Bluebook has a large number of rules, but once I master them, I’ll know exactly what to do in any given situation.” It took me a while to realize that, for all its detail, The Bluebook still leaves a lot of wiggle room. This is a lesson that needs to be impart...

For months, my spouse has been asking why I have pictures of an Elkay ezH20® bottle filling station on my phone. “It’s hard to explain,” I say. Sometimes I add, “Wait for the post on RIPS Law Librarian Blog; it will all become clear.”

For those who are unfamiliar, the Elkay ezH20 bottle filling station is part of the “industry’s most trusted bottle filling stations”...