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The Practising Law Librarian features interviews with law librarian professionals from an array of backgrounds and organizations. Join host Karen Oesterle, of PLI’s Legal Information Services team, to learn about trends, resources, and fresh ideas from peers in your profession.
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Inside Legal Tech with Sarah Glassmeyer (opens the original)
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Sarah Glassmeyer, Director of Data Curation at Legal Tech Hub, traces her path from academic law librarian to legal tech, sparked by the 2008 downturn and the free law movement, then through roles at CALI (including open casebooks and document-automation expert systems), a Harvard fellowship focused on free law, the ABA Center for Innovation, and RainCourt before joining Legal Tech Hub. She explains Legal Tech Hub’s advisory, content, and product-directory work, including maintaining a catalog o
Innovation in the Stacks with Jenny Wondracek (opens the original)
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Jenny Wondracek, director of the law library and professor of legal research and writing at Capital University Law School, shares her path from practicing law at North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services to an academic law library career spanning Barry, Elon, University of Florida, UNT Dallas (helping launch a new law library), and her upcoming move to Southern Methodist University as director of the Underwood Law Library. She reflects on how law libraries have shifted from print Shepherd’s and jud
Carla Wale on Law Libraries, AI, and Leading Through Change (opens the original)
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Carla Wale, a senior academic law librarian and program director, discusses her path into law librarianship and the degrees she pursued (JD, MLIS, MBA, and an online M.Ed. focused on pedagogy, access, and inclusion). She reflects on how law libraries have shifted from “just in case” print collecting to electronic “just in time” access, and how licensing raises new concerns around copyright limits, data privacy, FERPA, and vendor tracking—making enterprise contracts and data agreements essential.
Access, Aloha, and AI with Jenny (Silbiger) Foster (opens the original)
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Jenny (Silbiger) Foster, State Law Librarian and Access to Justice Coordinator for the Hawaii State Judiciary and President of the American Association of Law Libraries, shares her path from being a Korean adoptee raised in the Midwest to teaching English in Korea, moving to Hawaii for graduate study, and unexpectedly entering librarianship before earning her MLIS and leading library services. She describes the Hawaii Supreme Court Law Library’s long history and how the 2008 recession accelerate
Unlocking Legal Access with Valerie Salazar (opens the original)
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Valerie Salazar, a Law Library Service to Prisoners librarian at the Minnesota State Law Library, shares her path from volunteering and working in public and academic libraries to earning an online MLIS during the pandemic and landing this niche role. She explains how she researches and answers legal information requests from incarcerated people—often focused on case law by citation, annotated statutes, briefs, criminal appeals, and 1983 civil rights claims—as well as family law and court forms.
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