Today’s top: Be prepared for mobile.
Sarah Glassmeyer of CALI shared a tip from her session at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference yesterday. You can test a website to see how it will act on a mobile device. visit http://www.howtogomo.com to check your research websites before you try and use them with your phone.…
Most MS Outlook users know that you can sort your Inbox by a single column. A single left-click on any column head will sort all the messages in the Inbox by the contents of that column. For example, alphabetically by subject or chronologically by sent or received date.
Note as well that a second click on the same column will sort the messages again in reverse order to the initial sort.
Sorting your Inbox by a column can be helpful for locating a message or deleting old messages.
But you can do more – you can actually sort your Inbox …
If you spend any time on the web, you should be aware of the fact that you can be tracked by websites that you do not visit. This can include analytic services, advertising networks and social platforms. Few of these offer any reliable way of opting-out. Accordingly, we are left with working with a voluntary op-out procedure that is honoured by third-party web tracking sites.
One of the ways to prevent this tracking *at least by third parties who agree to honour a user’s Do Not Track preference* is by installing a plug-in for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari. …
Today’s tip: “talk to your law librarian” is in honour of all the new legal summer students that are starting at law firms. For those of you who don’t have access to a person or team in house, law society and bar organizations have your back.
The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society Library offers:
- through the provision of reference and research assistance;
- current awareness to the membership;
- document delivery and interlibrary loan services;
- research and resource guides;
- online services;
- training to the membership;
The Great Library website offers an Ask a Law Librarian page which states:
…Experienced staff are available to
Often a news item will mention a document, sometimes a decision, agreement or other type of document that you need to access. Today’s tip is a reminder to go to the source.
For example, a recent radio broadcast mentioned a memorandum of agreement between the City of Edmonton and Harbin, China to help design a waste managment system. This document does not appear on the City’s website. To get a copy, I need to find a source. Some choices follow that you can apply to your research scenario:
During a recent phone call, my colleague Catherine Reach and I had a bit of a chuckle over a rather risqué and NSFW (not suitable for work) article that one of our mutual friends had apparently just read online. Think clothing-optional antics by a celebrity in a bedroom in Vegas. As it happened, a few minutes before our call, we had both seen a Facebook update telling us that our friend has just read this particular article.
The critical fact here is not what happened in Vegas, but rather that our friend likely had no idea that the articles he …
This is the second of two posts dealing with the management side of taking your office paperless. The first post from last week dealt with the first 5 things to consider from a management perspective. This post looks at the remaining 5 things to be part of your paperless plan.
Here are the next 5 things to consider:
Do you find yourself in need of a Barrister in the UK? Do you have access to JustCite from Justis Publishing? Even if you do not have access at your desk to JustCite – which is an excellent index that that allows you to search multiple jurisdictions to find leading cases, articles and legislation and see how legal documents cite and relate to each other – you can use their Barristers search.
The search result includes contact information, practice areas, case history generated by Justis and representative cases and a biography if the barrister chooses to add to their …
Many people experienced some degree of frustration today with the Gmail outage. The Internet is more reliable than it has ever been and most major service providers like Google very rarely suffer service outages. But when they do, it can be a great inconvenience, in both your personal and/or professional lives.
For that reason there are some lessons to be learned. If you store your data on the cloud, be prepared to operate when you can’t access the cloud or the particular service. What cloud services do you use and how long could you function with access to them? Consider …