Anthony Brown C. Ikwueme Tony is an associate librarian at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is Nigerian by birth and Canadian by naturalization. He is licensed in both Nigeria and Canada. He was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 1995, and in Alberta, Canada in 2006. Tony holds a Masters of […]
Reaping the Benefits I have recently discovered gardening. Not that I was unaware of it in years past, but I have recently become a participant. Some recent sunny days have afforded me the opportunity to start getting the gardens ready. I’m going to have three garden spots this year: one for herbs and two for […]
DISCOVER THE WORKINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Do you want to learn more about the General Assembly and theonline Legislative Information System (LIS)? … get an “inside” tourof the State Capitol? …. participate in a mock session in the StateSenate? Come to a FREE workshop to be held at the Library of Virginia & theState […]
Rarely a day goes by without our reference staff receiving at least one request for general counsel information. The likelihood and ease of success of locating this information depends on the company type, size and location. For publicly-traded U.S. (and many Canadian or U.K.) companies, a visit to the Corporate Governance section of the company’s […]
Kent C. Olson from the University of Virginia Law Library has authored Principles of Legal Research which is due out this summer. It may not be out yet but Kent is giving us a preview of a portion of the book which should prove invaluable to all law libraries. As an appendix to the book, […]
Competitive Intelligence (CI) does not involve covert operations or espionage but it is sleuthing … nearly almost always in electronic form. Law librarians have been doing CI sleuthing for a while and have seen an increase in the number of fee and free tools available nowadays. I could spend days just listing them, but that […]
Leslie Ashbrook Leslie is a reference librarian at the University of Virginia School of Law Library. She received her JD from the University of Missouri, her MSIS from the University of Texas and her BA from the College of William & Mary. Leslie who is originally from Chillicothe, Missouri, enjoys the outdoors and pursues hiking, […]
A number of the directories were distributed at the VALL Winter Meeting at George Mason Law Library today and the rest will be mailed out by Victoria Levy. Everyone should receive their directories by March 17. If you do not, please contact Victoria at vlevy@hnton.com.
National Library Week (April 12 – 18) will be upon us before we know it. Check out ALA’s website for ideas: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/hqops/pio/natlibraryweek/nlw.cfm Volunteer in Washington, D.C. for the AALL MeetingPlease join your colleagues in volunteering your time to make the Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., a success.Volunteers are needed for:Family Social Hour; Registration Bag Stuffing; […]
