Check This Out! Podcast

Playing time 13:30

This is a short end-of-the-year episode for the holidays, featuring a Radical Militant Librarian poem by Robert Ryan, a story of sledding, lost gloves, and sharing from Quirky Nomads, and a shout-out to all my peeps at the UB Law Library. Merry Christmas to one and all! Special quiet edition music: The Angels Know, by Steffen Coonan.

Playing time 54:48

I talk with Profesor Teresa Miller of the UB Law School about her course on immigration law, Documenting Law in Action. After a mention of some format changes, I introduce a new occasional feature: Radical Militant Librarian Chat. The Canadian Minute comes courtesy of Quirky Nomads. Intro and outro music: Meltdown Man, by Derek K. Miller. Background music for Radical Militant Librarian Chat: Have a Dream, by Steffen Coonan. Featured music: Goodbye, by Endless Blue.

Let the world know you're a radical militant librarian! Buy a button from the new Check This Out! webstore. I didn't include any markup on the $1.25 price for the buttons, so I don't get any money for this. It's just for fun, and a public service.

Playing time 30:50

The Week In Blogs: Bar Exam

•  Do bar prep courses cost too much?

• New York Times
• Daniel Solove: why not abolish it?  Here , here , here , and here.

Library World News: Let's Talk About Wikis

• What is a wiki?
  • Wiki.org
  • Wikipedia
• Wikis for lawyers
  • The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog (and here )

• Ernie the Attorney
• Louisiana Law
• Between Lawyers
• Goldman's Observations

• Law Dawg Blawg
• Wex
• Wikilaw.org
• Wiki-law.org
• Wikis and fake information: the Siegenthaler case
  

• Concurring Opinions (and again)
• Workplace Prof Blog

Music: Allison Crowe, In the Bleak Midwinter

A Canadian Holiday Minute (courtesy of AirFerg.com)

Librarians in Film: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Playing time 1:09:49

This week's episode is a little long, but filled with chewy content goodness. Enjoy!

Interview with John Mayer, Executive Director of The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), on distance and online learning in law schools (recorded via ClassCaster)

• CALI: http://www.cali.org
• CODEC: http://codec.cali.org/
• ClassCaster: http://www.classcaster.org/

Halftime music: Betty, by The Lascivious Biddies, from Biddycast

Interview with Leah Sandwell-Weiss, Reference Librarian & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Legal Research (recorded via Skype)

• Leah Sandwell-Weiss, A Look At the USA PATRIOT Act Today, AALL Spectrum, July 2005, Vol. 8, No. 9, at 10.
• AALL Action Alert on the Reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Reform the PATRIOT Act Blog
• Sabrina I. Pacifici, BeSpacific

Canadian Minute: White Margarine, courtesy of The Catfish Show

Intro and Outro Music: Meltdown Man, courtesy of Derek K. Miller, Penmachine Podcast