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What's Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing?
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The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing is "[t]o advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking." The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog aimed to help fulfill this mission by bringing together differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presenting them openly.
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Does your staff need grantwriting skills? As a NELLCO member you can get them for free! | |
NELLCO member libraries that can host a 2-day grant writing or grant management workshop will receive two free seats for staff to attend. That's a value of almost $1000.00!
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NELLCO has teamed up with Grant Writing USA to offer these workshops across the US. Host institutions only need to provide space and a local contact person. We do the rest. Interested? Let us know!
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Streaming Video! |
Swank Digital Campus! Take a look. View the recorded demo at your convenience. Swank offers a great service that librarians can provide to support their faculty! |
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We want to highlight your library and your staff on our website and in our newsletter. Please send in any images you'd like to see, along with a brief description, to tracy.thompson@nellco.org or theresa.mccue@nellco.org. All images should be jpgs of at least 620 pixels wide by 310 tall. We can work with larger images but nothing smaller. Now hit us with your best shots! |
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President's Message |
Paul M. George, President Associate Dean and Director of Biddle Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Greetings,
I am very pleased to take over the responsibility of president of NELLCO. I have worked in NELLCO member libraries for 18 years and have been able to serve on the board of Directors for the past 10 years. During this time I have seen both tremendous changes in our profession and our libraries as well as in NELLCO. With Tracy Thompson-Przylucki NELLCO has grown from a regional consortium to a national and international organization serving libraries and their librarians across the globe. We have gone from an organization designed to help libraries purchase electronic resources at a discount to one that provides direct services to its members as well as their libraries. This is demonstrated most recently by the new NELLCO Symposium held this past spring as well as the numerous services and opportunities that are available to us.
NELLCO's growth and leadership reminds me of the quotation from hockey player Wayne Gretzky who said, "Skate where the puck is going, not where it has been." Under Tracy's leadership, NELLCO has truly been out on the forefront of law librarianship. We have been small enough to take risks and fortunately have been lucky enough to have members who have explored projects, some of which have been great successes and some which can be described as good learning experiences. But all of them have demonstrated NELLCO's rapid response to changes in our profession and our leadership in being on the forefront in many areas of concern for law librarians. A current example of this leadership is a plan still in development that would result in the creation of a shared print repository, permitting NELLCO to be the home of "the last" copy for all those libraries which find they no longer have space for reporters that have historically been at the heart of our print collections. We are developing this project with a sister organization, Legal Information Preservation Alliance, so please stay tuned for more details.
I know that in the coming two years, we will undoubtedly have additional project advancing our profession, which we have not yet identified. The Board of Directors has instituted a new committee structure to provide greater input from Board members into the planning and development of NELLCO programs, and the initial discussions have already indicated some great ideas. I also hope that we will soon be able to announce additional programs and services for additional members, including students and those who are new to our profession. Of course, I also hope that all of you will contribute your ideas for programs and areas of growth for NELLCO. Please challenge us an organization.
As I start my new term as president, please let me thank Karen Quinn, our new past-president, who has provided me with a great deal of guidance during my term as vice-president. Her help was invaluable and I know I will call upon her often. And of course, my thanks to Tracy Thompson-Przylucki for making sure we are all skating in the right direction with the best skates possible.
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 Director's Corner |
- The Practice of Leadership
- NELLCO Dinner Cruise
Paul's message above talks about the leadership of NELLCO over the last 10+ years. The NELLCO Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Interest Groups all serve to lead NELLCO, and I'm honored to be entrusted to provide administrative and organizational leadership.
Our organizational work over the last few years has given me more opportunity to focus on leadership as a craft rather than simply a byproduct of my position. A quick glance at the bookshelf to my left reveals Open Leadership by Charlene Li, Creating Leaderful Organizations by Joe Raelin, The Leader Who is Hardly Known by Steven Simpson, and The Art of Facilitation and The Zen of Groups by Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey and Bill Taylor. I could go on. I subscribe to lists that focus on organizational leadership. I participate in a weekly tweet chat, either haplessly or hilariously tagged #assnchat, in which association leaders sit on their . . . chairs and chat about their leadership innovations, challenges, successes, ideas, etc.
In June I attended a wonderful 4-day Abundance Leadership workshop offered by Organizational Design & Development Associates (ODDA). Abundance Leadership is the practice of leading from a position of bounty, rather than scarcity. Laura Freebairn-Smith, Principal of ODDA and one of the faculty for the workshop, has written her dissertation on the subject. Her research identified behaviors and characteristics of leaders who adopt an abundance approach; one in which resources, ideas, recognition, power, communication, etc., are readily shared in the belief that there is plenty for everyone. Juxtaposed against this are the behaviors and characteristics of scarcity leaders; those who hoard resources, power, etc. out of fear that they risk being depleted.
My participation in the workshop required me to invite feedback from a number of colleagues familiar with my work. They were each asked anonymously to complete a 360 degree evaluation about my leadership. In addition, I completed the Myers-Briggs instrument (I'm an INTJ). All of this material was used to provide me with a comprehensive report that will help me to hone my leadership skills. I came away from the workshop with a clearer sense of my leadership strengths and weaknesses, and a concrete plan of action.
The current state of affairs in the world of law libraries can often lead us to adopt a scarcity mindset. But I think we'll be more successful as a profession embracing abundance. To that end, each month I'll focus on one abundance behavior in this newsletter. My goal will be to provide you with food for thought and the tools to identify different types of leadership behaviors for yourself. We all lead at some point, and mindful leadership is a good goal for all of us.
Last call - All Aboard!
Don't miss the NELLCO Dinner Cruise! We'll be sailing on the Spirit of Boston on Sun. July 22 from 6:30 - 9:00 pm. This event is FREE to all members (Full, Affiliate, and International Affiliate). Non-members and guests pay $70.00. Register NOW and don't miss out on the fun! See YOU in Boston!
Yours In Collaboration,
Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki
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NELLCO Current Trials | |
Current Trials
Upcoming Trials
- EBSCO eBooks
- WestLaw India
To see detailed trial information, including access instructions and pricing, for these resources, visit the NELLCO website. You must be logged in to see the 'For Members' tab. Open the tab and choose >E-resources, Trial and Offers >Trials.
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Mobile Apps for Law - FREE from NELLCO! |
Do you know that the major legal publishers are busily releasing mobile apps? CCH, BNA, Lexis and Thomson each have a good selection of new apps available dealing with securities regulation, trade regulation, tax, health law, labor law and lots more. Did you know you can get the US Code on a mobile app? the Delaware Code? CFR? Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? the IRS Code and Regulations? all kinds of useful utilities? All of these and 800 more are in our MOBILE APPS FOR LAW database on the web.
Mobile Apps for Law ( www.mobileappsforlaw.com) is a comprehensive database on the web covering legal research and utility apps for all types of mobile devices. Whether you use an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, Android, Palm PC, or...this is the place to find out which law apps are available for your device.
The database includes over 800 different mobile applications for law and lawyers, and is growing weekly. Each entry provides detailed information, including: title, publisher, description, subjects, price, devices, version, size, last update date, links to reviews, where available, and most importantly, a link to click on to download the app immediately to your device. Powered by dtSearch, the search function allows you to search through the entire database, or to limit by specific fields, such as title, subject, or device.
Brought to you by Infosources Publishing, pioneers in the field of reference publishing for law since 1981, Mobile Apps for Law is the only database devoted to mobile apps for lawyers. Get your password through NELLCO at no cost to you!
-Arlene Eis, Infosources Publishing
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Tips from Theresa |
Theresa McCue - Administrative and Member Support Manager 
Boston is right around the corner, so please make sure you stop by the NELLCO booth #827 to have some fun! Get your picture taken with our ToonCamera, an amazing camera and photography app that turns your picture into a cartoon (that's mine at left). The photos taken from this app can be shared by email, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. And with your permission, we'll post yours to your NELLCO profile.
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July is National Park and Recreation Month! | |
From the National Park and Recreation Association website:
Since 1985, America has celebrated July as the nation's official Park and Recreation Month. This July we are encouraging you and your community to GET WILD about parks and recreation!
Everything from wild workouts and wellness to getting wet and wild at the pool or even wild with nature - you just can't help but have fun this July, all while expressing the many valuable benefits of parks and recreation!
We've got all you need to GET WILD this July. Visit our website to access downloadable materials, ideas on how to GET WILD, take the pledge and much more! AND you won't want to miss the GET WILD Geocache Contest - we've got great prizes for participating agencies and geocache treasure hunters out there!
We know you are wild about parks and recreation so this July during Park and Recreation Month, come GET WILD with us!
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