[LAW-LIB:56959] Social networks for law librarians and other legal information professionals

From: Lyonette Louis-Jacques (llou@midway.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 08:53:08 PDT

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    Guten Tag LAW-LIB'ers!

    I thought I'd update y'all on growing social networks for law
    librarians. The most active ones so far besides electronic discussion
    groups such as this one, INT-LAW, LIS-LAW, BIB-JUR,
    JURICONNEXION, national law library association lists, etc.:

    Law Libraries and Librarians Ning Network (389 members and growing)
    http://lawlibraries.ning.com/

    Note if you're interested in joining this network that the default
    setting is public, so all the information you post is available for
    all to see - I think there are some privacy settings)

    Twitter (the list of 350 Twitter handles below includes most of the
    active law librarian and legal information professional Twitterers):
    http://is.gd/2poh
    http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/09/articles/law-firm-marketing/145-lawyers-and-legal-professionals-to-follow-on-twitter/

    The default setting for Twitter is public too - all your status updates
    are publicly viewable and searchable and anyone can follow you. But, you
    can lock your status updates so that they are private and folks have to
    ask you for permission to follow you and read your updates.

    Law Libraries on Facebook (nearly 40 libraries have FB pages): http://tinyurl.com/5e2rpf
    http://lawlibraries.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2096787%3ABlogPost%3A1829

    Besides email discussiong groups, invidual librarians are mostly using
    Facebook, followed by LinkedIn, then Twitter, I think.

    I have a list of all these networks updated through August 2008 here:
    http://lawlibraries.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2096787%3ATopic%3A2916

    Happy networking! :-)

    Ciao,
    Lyo.

    Lyonette Louis-Jacques
    Foreign and International Law
    Librarian and Lecturer in Law
    D'Angelo Law Library
    University of Chicago Law School
    E-mail: llou@midway.uchicago.edu
    Phone: 1-773-702-9612
    Fax: 1-773-702-2889
    http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/
    http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/louis-jacques
    http://lawlibraries.ning.com/profile/LyonetteLouisJacques



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