Law Librarian Food Pyramid: How To Stay Healthy

Introduction

• Law librarianship can be a challenging career. In fact, many law librarians were previously lawyers themselves. While knowledge of all law is not required, it would be hard to get by without a knowledge of these resources.

Fruits and Veggies: Books and Periodicals to Help Your Growth

Books:

Law Librarianship in the 21st Century by Luna-lamas, Sonia

The Changing Role of Law Firm Librarianship published by Aspatore Books

Basics of Law Librarianship by Panella, Deborah S.

Fruits and Veggies Continued

Publications

• Legal Information Management Index• Law Librarians Bulletin Board• Legal Research Dictionary• Legal Information Management Reports

Even More…

Indexes• LegalTrac Index• Legal Periodicals Full Text and Retrospective

Index• Index to Legal Periodical Literature• HeinOnline Law Journal Library• EBSCO Legal Collection• Current Index to Legal Periodicals

Grains: They Fill You Up.

Databases• Lexis-Nexis + Lexis-Nexis Congressional• Westlaw• BNA (bureau of national affairs) Databases• Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set• HeinOnline Databases• LLMC (law library microform consortium)

digital

More Grains…

• Knowledge Mosaic• TRACfed• VictimLaw• VersusLaw

Meat/Dairy: What Completes the Meal

Websites/blogs

• American Association of Law Libraries:http://www.aallnet.org

• LLXR (law and technology resources for legal professionals): http://www.llrx.com

• LexisNexis: http://law.lexisnexis.com/• Legal Information Services: Services and Publications for

librarians, lawyers, and legal researchers: http://www.legalinformationservices.com/index.php

More Meat/Dairy

• AALL Recruitment Committee: http://www.aallnet.org/committee/rllc/index.asp

• Legal Scholarship Network: http://ssrn.com/lsn/index.html• Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C.: http://llsdc.org• Law Librarian Blog:

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/• The Pratt Law Librarian (blog):

http://theprattlawlibrarian.wordpress.com/category/law-librarianship/

• Criminal Law Library Blog: http://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com

Fats/Sugar…now we have fun

Being a law librarian may involve stress from time to time. Therefore here are some funny sites to keep you smiling through the day.

• http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/libhumor.html

• http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/koans.htm• http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/• http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/• http://www.unshelved.com/