Check This Out! Podcast

Episode 074: Lawyerswithdepression.com
Friday, June 22, 2007
Playing time: 20:39

Dan Lukasik is a successful Buffalo lawyer who struggles with severe clinical depression.  He has recently created a support group for lawyers with depression, and is building a website with links and resources to provide assistance to lawyers and create greater awareness and understanding among the public.  Last week Dan and I talked about the problems of lawyers with depression.

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Episode 073: Susan Drummond and Her Neighbor, Mr. Rogers
Friday, June 15, 2007
Playing time: 42:18

In August 2005, York University Law Professor Susan Drummond was informed that she owed $12,000 to Rogers Wireless for phone calls made from her stolen phone.  Not only did Professor Drummond fight back, she turned it into a study of the legal system and built a website about it.  Here Susan talks with me about her use of online consumer advocacy and her adventures in the Ontario small claims court.

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Episode 072: The Yirka Question
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Playing time: 28:43

Guest: Carl Yirka, Director of the Julien and Virginia Cornell Library and Professor of Law, Vermont Law School.  I speak with Carl about making hard decisions: what traditional library services should we stop doing, so that we can do other things that are a better fit with our institutional priorities?

Atul Gawande, "The Bell Curve," New Yorker, December 6, 2004; Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (2007).

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Email from Carl Yirka to lawlibdir listserv, May 31, 2007:

Greetings from Vermont:

I'm writing a report for my Deans and am discussing some of the things we have consciously stopped doing, or are doing less than we have in the past.

One of the questions we try to ask is:  what can we stop doing, in order to do other higher priority items?  After I once asked this question at a faculty meeting, the former CFO began to call this "the Yirka question"... not to honor me in any way, but so he could ask the question without anyone getting angry at him.  It is of course the sort of question that raises issues of turf.

Here's a brief list of what we have stopped doing:

• We are not binding law journals that appear in HeinOnline;
• we are collecting less government documents;
• less actively collecting of archival materials;
• not offering ref service from the Ref Desk - now  offered from our offices;
• not sending "of interest" notices to  (mostly) faculty for new books;
• not doing "prepare to practice/research review" research workshops  previously done at the end of spring term;
• faculty research  workshops -  not done for a few years;
• not having 4 librarians each teach 2 sections of Legal Research. Now we have 3 teaching 3;
• we've cut back on the number of research classes for MSEL (Master of Science in Environmental Law)  students taught by a librarian. --The writing instructor incorporated basic legal research into the Writing classes, and a librarian introduced them to our subscription databases and the Free Environmental Sites Guide;
• not administering CALI -  now administered by Academic Success office;
• not assisting faculty with TWEN and PowerPoint - the faculty administrative assistants are doing that;

In recent conversation with my sister, who is a librarian in a special library, she told me they no longer check in periodicals.  After getting over the shock of that, I began to wonder whether we are too constrained in what we feel we must do.

So, I am curious as to what your libraries have stopped doing.

Best regards,

Carl

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Email from Carl Yirka to lawlibdir listserv, June 1, 2007:

Several of you have asked 1) why are you stopping these things, and 2) what are we now doing that is more important than the services we have discontinued?

We made the stop decisions consciously.  In part we were short staffed, and were doing a work redesign, so wanted to stop doing things that we felt were not worth it.  We were not doing these things badly, but in spite of doing them well no one seemed to care whether we were doing these things.  Penny Hazelton pointed out to me that one of Don Dunn's favorite questions is, "What are you doing well  that you don't need to do at all?"

Our Dean had not specifically asked us to do this exercise; I'm trying to be ahead of the curve.

We are not yet at the point of doing the new services.  As part of our redesign we have hired a new Lawyer/Librarian starting 2 July, and are moving a librarian from collection development to a second lawyer/librarian position this summer.  We will soon be in the market for an librarian for collection development and technology; we'll be interviewing at AALL I trust.

Here's a bit of background explaining how we got here.

I have heard from many of you that your deans feel that your libraries are doing a good job, that you run a good library, but that in spite of that deans are cutting staffing and book budgets, and taking library space for other purposes.

I have not heard it described quite this brusquely, but the conversation I imagine go something like this:
Dean to Library Director:  "The library is doing a good job for the budget you have; but what can you do if I cut your budget by 10%.... 20%..... 30%.....  I know, I know.. Library directors for decades have made the claim that budgets must get bigger.. publishers charge more, we can't control that... new technologies cost a lot....  you need lots of staff to do the library stuff....the library needs more space...you never want to get rid of anything...  Let's try something different.  Cut the budget, do your best on collection and services, and let me tell you when we reach a level that hurts the institution."

In other words, I think some deans don't value what we have been doing, (despite our efforts to educate deans) or to put it a different way - what we have been doing is not in synch with institutional priorities.  If they were, deans would be putting more money toward libraries. They seem to find money for their priorities.

So what institutional priorities are there that the Library might take on?

The new goal that we have identified is that the Library needs to do more to help faculty be more productive scholars.  Yes... that means to help them publish more. Clearly this is an institutional goal, and one that is on the margin of  running a good library.   Providing the book and electronic materials for faculty to do their research is a traditional library goal;, we are talking about doing something more.

I've been surveying our faculty asking what sort of things they would like the Library to do in order for them to be more productive scholars.  I've said that at this point I can't make any firm commitments; but I want them to "dream no small dreams."

I realize that this is a bit scary.  I realize that the things faculty might want to outsource to the library are those things that are not working at all, or are not working well.  That's the way life is:  the opportunities lie where things are not going well.

There are risks here.  Will I get their hopes up for things we can't produce?  Will some of their hopes be far outside the scope of traditional library work?  (I have heard of one law library that now supervises faculty secretaries, and makes faculty travel arrangements).  Might we become glorified (or unglorified) research assistants or secretaries?  I think the benefits outweigh the risks.  Doing merely the more traditional library goals seems to me a recipe for slow death.

I provide you here with the unedited list of faculty desires. Some of these things we already do, but perhaps not to the level faculty would like, or they don't realize we have done them. Some items are not clearly keyed to faculty scholarly productivity. You will note that "footnotes"  comes up more than once.

Suggestions so far:

• understand the rankings of  law reviews, and which law review would be the best place to submit articles of on various topics
• Draft the footnotes; draft some of the footnotes;
• write the complex research footnotes: e.g determine the cites to similar statutes in the other 49 states.
• review drafts of faculty articles and determine whether there are better footnotes.
• Research Fellows* have a research assistant pool in library supervised by librarians; have librarians do the paperwork and training of research assistants;
• librarians review research assistant's work product
• have electronic feeds come to a Librarian, and only forward the most relevant to the faculty member.
• Create complete SSRN files for faculty, include all historical literature as well
• create a portal for every upper level class whether faculty ask for it or not.
• Current awareness services: CLIP, RSS feeds, Google reader
• take over responsibility for plagiarism reviews of student papers
• Librarians as consultants on faculty web page: cv creation; click thru to articles, SSRN
• Word/Powerpoint expertise & creation
• Footnotes: do them?  Clean them up?  Know blue book well.
• supplement the work of the Communications office: understand the publishers, book, periodical, newspaper culture well enough to act as a consultant for faculty considering unique publication places: literary agent for the faculty
• Understand the pecking order of law reviews better, especially for interdisciplinary journals
• Understand the timing and template issues for law journal publication
• Which law reviews take unsolicited manuscripts
• Content creators for blogs
• Liaison lunch with faculty member every semester; individual and group lunch
• Create on demand bibliographies for faculty members
• Manage faculty contact with other libraries: (Several faculty members pay for privileges to use Dartmouth College Library) renew books, etc.
• Librarian *embedded* near where faculty work
• Provide competitive intelligence:  how do other law schools do X
• Provide lunch table consults in the faculty dining area
• Provide more Science databases
• Clean up blue book sites
• Law review rankings
• Blogs; act as content creators for blogs
• Train RAs to do social science research & govdocs research
• Additional classroom support: review and prep video clips
• Develop better video collection
• Develop course reserves for classes
• become the experts for Citation 9
• Play a role in the hierarchy between faculty and RA: mid level associate
• Develop brief bank for clinic

Perhaps you think this is completely crazy, or perhaps you already do all this.  I would enjoy your comments.  If nothing else, I've got down a rough draft that will help me write my memo.
best regards,
Carl

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Episode 071: Full Frontal Feminism, with Jessica Valenti
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Playing time: 27:43

Jessica Valenti is the founder and Executive Editor of Feministing.com, and author of a new book, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters.

• See Jessica on The Colbert Report, June 5, 2007
• Pictures from backstage
• Comments on Feministing

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Episode 070: Mediation, Collaborative Family Law, and Fur Coats
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Playing time: 49:14

Linda W. Chodos joins me for another lunchcast from Byblos Authentic Lebanese Restaurant in Getzville, NY.  Ms. Chodos .  A 1993 graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School practicing family law in Hamburg, New York, Ms. Chodos is a leader in promoting mediation and collaborative family law in western New York.  Ms. Chodos is also Director of Western New York Collaborative Law Professionals, Ltd. and a member of International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP).

From Linda's website:

Mediation has been found to benefit people with some or all of the following concerns:

• I know what is best for me and my family. I don't want the courts to decide for me.
  

• I am concerned about the high cost of a divorce.
  

• I cannot communicate with my spouse.
  

• I am concerned that my children will suffer.
  

• I am not sure what constitutes a fair agreement.
  

• I need more information about what my financial situation will be
  following the divorce.
  

• I need good and accurate legal information.
  

• I need a plan that provides me with flexibility to deal with future issues that may arise.
  

• I don't want to "fight it out" in the courts now or after the divorce.

Collaborative law is a relatively new alternative for achieving a fair settlement in a separation or divorce. In collaborative law, both parties retain separate, specially trained lawyers, whose only job is to help them settle the case. If the process does not succeed, the lawyers must withdraw and cannot go on to represent their clients against the other party in court. All participants agree to work together respectfully, honestly, and in good faith to try to find solutions to both parties' legitimate needs. Four creative minds work together to devise individualized settlement scenarios. Neither party can seek court intervention during the collaborative law process.

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Episode 069: Building a Virtual Community in Second Life with Micala Lumiere
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Playing time: 30:50

In Second Life, Micala Lumiere is an artist, musician, real estate developer, and patron of the arts.  In Real Life, Shannon Ritter is a graduate student in the MFA program in New Media at Penn State.  Micala/Shannon talks with me about building the virtual community of Mill Pond and Stone Hill in Second Life, and more generally about community in the online world.

• December 4, 2006 blog post about a report from the USC/Annenberg Digital Futures Project.  
• December 21, 2006 blog post about her reactions to changes a client had done with a space she designed for them
• On music performance in Second Life: blog.SLmusic.org

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Episode 068: Social Networking Technologies
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Playing time: 49:46

This episode is a presentation I gave at the Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York (ALLUNY) Spring Institute on Friday, May 4 at Syracuse University College of Law on social networking technologies.

• Gene Smith, Social Software Building Blocks
• Laura Cohen, Social Scholarship on the Rise
• SSRN
• MySpace
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Ning (Second Life Librarians and Library 2.0)
• Twitter
• Tumblr
• iStalkr
• Flickr
• YouTube
• Google Calendar
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets
• ThinkFree
• Zoho
• Bubbl.us
• Picnik
• TimeToMeet.info
• YouSendIt
• MediaFire

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Just for fun, here's a little promo for Check This Out!  I originally sent this to Dana at BLARM! as an audio comment a few months ago, but I decided to rework it a bit, so here it is.  Possibly not worksafe, depending on your place of work.  Enjoy!

Episode 066: Interview with Wayne MacPhail of Who's on Second?
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Playing time: 28:31

This is a crossover episode.  I was interviewed this morning by Wayne MacPhail for his podcast, Who's on Second.  Wayne is president of w8nc, a Canadian marketing and communications company specializing in emerging technologies, including social media tools, Web 2.0, Second Life, podcasting, vidcasting and more.  Wayne has been a print and online content producer for over 20 years.  He has produced online content for most of the major players in Canada and has taught online journalism and writing at a variety of colleges and universities in Ontario.  Wayne has been a magazine editor and photographer, a newspaper feature writer and editor and is also a published and produced playwright, book author and an avid cyclist and runner.  We talked today about some of the legal and social implications of Second Life.

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Episode 065: David M. Crane on War Crimes and Impunity
Monday, April 9, 2007
Playing time: 30:47

David M. Crane was appointed Distinguished Professor of Practice at Syracuse University College of Law in 2006. Prior to joining the College of Law, he was the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, an international war crimes tribunal, appointed to that position by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, on 19 April 2002.  With the rank of Undersecretary General, Professor Crane's mandate was to prosecute those who bear the greatest responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international human rights committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone during the 1990s.  Professor Crane was the first American since Justice Robert Jackson and Telford Taylor at Nuremberg, in 1945, to be the Chief Prosecutor of an international war crimes tribunal.

Professor Crane served over 30 years in the federal government of the United States, mainly with the Department of Defense. Appointed to the Senior Executive Service of the United States in 1997, Professor Crane has held numerous key positions during his three decades of public service, including Director of the Office of Intelligence Review, Assistant General Counsel of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Waldemar A. Solf Professor of International Law at the United States Army Judge Advocate General's School. He has over 20 years of experience as an officer and lawyer in the United States Army.

Professor Crane holds a Doctorate of Law degree from Syracuse University, a Masters of Arts Degree in African Studies and a Bachelor of General Studies in History, summa cum laude, from Ohio University.

Impunity Watch: "The Impunity Watch blog is intended to provide unbiased, objective reporting on impunity issues throughout the world.  An open forum will be created to allow communication among individuals.  People on the ground in the affected areas can use our blog as a means of casting a light on perceived injustices.  Critical articles debating impunity issues will also be collected from academic, professional, and student authors.  As a result, Impunity Watch will be a forum in which human rights issues and events will be examined from both a grassroots as well as an academic perspective."

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Episode 064: Jill of Feministe
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Playing time: 31:40

My guest this week is Jill Filipovic, the lead blogger at Feministe.us, and one of the most prominent and articulate voices in the young feminist blogosphere.  Jill is also a second-year student at New York University Law School.  So let's talk with Jill about feminist blogging and blogging as a law student.

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Episode 063: Katrina Stierholz, Federal Reserve Bank Librarian
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Playing time: 36:53

Another conference: this time it was the DeLange Conference on Emerging Libraries, hosted by Rice University.  I caught up with an old friend: Katrina Stierholz used to be a law librarian at Saint Louis University and at Washington University in St. Louis, and is now librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.  Katrina talked with me about the Federal Reserve Bank and her work there.

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Episode 062: Jim goes to NohCon
Monday, March 5, 2007
Playing time: 36:28

Last week I attended the Second Annual NohCon Anime Convention at Daemen College in Amherst, New York.  I took the opportunity to interview some of attendees, vendors, and organizers about what brought them to the convention, some things to look for, and how to organize an anime convention.

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Episode 061: Jack Clark of Blast the Right Podcast
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Playing time: 30:46

My guest this week is Jack Clark, host of Blast the Right Podcast, one of the best of the progressive-left podcasts.  Jack is a retired attorney from the east coast now living on the west coast. 

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CTO! Films Presents: Grass-Roots Academic Podcasting
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Playing Time: 41:09

This is a video of my presentation on "Grass-Roots Academic Podcasting" at PodCamp Toronto on Sunday, February 25, 2007.  My presentation focuses on my other podcast, UBLaw Faculty Conversations, and what I hope to achieve with it.

Episode 060: PodCamp Toronto
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Playing time: 27:48

Next weekend Canadian correspondent Connie Crosby and I will participate in PodCamp Toronto, one of a growing number of regional podcasting conferences.  Connie and I talk about the PodCamp concept, what attendees can expect, and what Connie and I will be doing there.  (Registration for PodCamp Toronto is free, so anyone interested is encouraged to attend.)

For more podcasting goodness, please listen to UBLaw Faculty Conversations.
Check This Out! is a Top 10 Legal Podcast at Blawgs.fm.

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Episode 059: I Finally Get Second Life!
Monday, February 5, 2007
Playing time: 58:33

After numerous failed attempts to figure out Second Life, I finally get it, thanks to my patient guide Meg Kribble, Reference/Instructional Services Librarian at Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University Law Library.  Meg is one the lead member of the Nova Southeastern staff building a virtual presence for the law library.  Join us on a guided tour of this virtual world.

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I'm pleased to share this item with all of you: I hope to see some of you in Toronto in a few weeks!

Media Contacts:

Leesa Barnes
leesa.barnes@gmail.com
(647) 225-3792

Jay Moonah
jay@jaymoonah.com
(416) 885-5341

Episode 058: Update on Blogging and New York Lawyer Advertising Rules
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Playing time: 27:57

The presiding judges of the New York State Unified Court System have promulgated new disciplinary rules governing lawyer advertising.  New York law bloggers Bill Altreuter (Altreuter Berlin, Outside Counsel), Nicole Black (Sui Generis), and Matt Lerner (Goldberg Segalla LLP, New York Civil Law Blog) discussed the proposed rules here in Episode 055.  This week Bill, Nicole, and Matt join me again to discuss the final rules and their effects on lawyer blogging, advertising, and solicitation.

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Episode 057: Fred Shapiro and the Yale Book of Quotations
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Playing time: 33:26

I'm back, well-rested but untanned, from a brief holiday hiatus. 
My guest this week: Fred Shapiro, Associate Library for Public Services at Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library and editor of the new Yale Book of Quotations.
In other news, I'm podcasting my new class, Teaching Legal Research.  Feel free to listen in.

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Barbara O'Brien is the author of The Mahablog, one of the leading left/progressive blogs, and is known for her insightful and well-reasoned analysis.  Now she has extended her efforts into podcasting, with--so far--a couple of short and very listenable episodes.  Her first comment was a reflection on the legacy of the late President Gerald Ford.  In this week's entry, Old Tapes for the New Year, she talks about how each generation reacts to its own understandings--or misunderstandings--of the lessons of the previous war.  If you're interested in an articulate left voice in podcasting, add The Mahablog to your podcatcher.

(Cross-posted at BWTR.)

Episode 056: Vacation in Prague
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Playing time: 39:20

Very little law or library content this week; instead, I tell some stories about my December vacation in Prague.  Lots of found sound, and a featured song by Erzsi Kiss Music.  I've also posted a selection of photos on my blog, Buffalo Wings & Toasted Ravioli.  Have a wonderful holiday!
Places mentioned: Mucha Museum, Museum of Communism, Divadlo Ta Fantastika, Golem: The Musical, Popocafepetl, U Fleku, Pilsner Urquell, Budweiser Budvar.

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Episode 055: Blogging and Lawyer Advertising
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Playing time: 37:42

Content analysis:

• Law - High
• Libraries - Low
• Life - Medium

This week: a discussion of the New York Proposed Amendments to Rules Governing Lawyer Advertising, and what they have to say about lawyer blogging, with special guests:

• Bill Altreuter, Outside Counsel
• Nicole Black, Sui Generis
• Matt Lerner, New York Civil Law

For more information, see Julie Hilden, Are Law Blogs Protected by the First Amendment? Why State Bar Regulation of Law Blogs As "Advertising" Would Be Elitist and Reductive, FindLaw, Oct. 16, 2006.

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Episode 054: T. Nile and The Other Law Library Podcast
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Playing time: 58:43

I'm posting this episode a couple of days early because I'll be on vacation later.  So, a special treat--two interviews this week:
1) T. Nile, the Vancouver-based singer-songwriter behind my theme song, Get Together.
2) Rita Kaiser and Stina McClintock (see Episode 004) of the King County Law Library and its podcast, the King County Law Library Sidebar.

Featured music: T. Nile, Good Love and Get Together (CD version)

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Episode 053: Czech This Out!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Playing time: 49:40

This is another lunchcast from Byblos Restaurant in Getzville, New York. My guest is Lucie Olejnikova, an MLS student at the University at Buffalo and the Law Library's Graduate Assistant. We talk about how a basketball scholarship led from the Czech Republic to library school, growing up in Prague, Czech food, and things to do in Prague.

Featured music:
Docuku, Horehronka
Lucie Redlova, Samici­ blues
Neocekavany Dychanek, Roznovska
Fekete Kutya, Hip Hap Hop
Lucie Redlova, Pred usnuti­m

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