By Michael Muehe (Follow us on LinkedIn) Recently, I reconnected with some faculty from my law school alma mater, and they asked me what my favorite law school class was and why. Though a tough call between Contract Drafting and Mediation, I ultimately explained that Mediation was because of the interpersonal, life skills it taught meContinue reading “Mediation as a Life Skill”
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Legal Research as Music Festival
By Michael Muehe (Follow us on LinkedIn) If there’s one thing I’ve learned since moving to San Francisco, it’s that California loves its music festivals. From Coachella to Joshua Tree, Stagecoach to San Francisco’s own Outside Lands – located conveniently right behind the USF School of Law – these events often have a number of stagesContinue reading “Legal Research as Music Festival”
Old Habits Die Hard – Confirmation Bias in Research
By Michael Muehe (Follow us on LinkedIn) I recently attended a webinar organized by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) discussing how to kickstart your research and writing for scholarly publications. As I am in the early research stages of what may become my first professional research article on critical/legal information literacy, I attended with anContinue reading “Old Habits Die Hard – Confirmation Bias in Research”
From DOOM Box to Boom Box
By Michael Muehe In July, I attended the AALL conference in Denver, ready to take in new ideas, meet new people, and learn lots of librarianship tips and tricks from colleagues and vendors; but, in the back of my mind, I worried about how much information I would actually end up remembering from it. AsContinue reading “From DOOM Box to Boom Box”
Now, Where Was I? Finding Your Focus as an ADHD Law Librarian
By Michael Muehe “That’s a lot of books, you must like to read,” a stranger said to me while we waited for the bus, pointing to the couple of books I was holding. “I’m a librarian, reading’s a big part of me, I suppose,” I replied lightheartedly. Little did this person know that I hadContinue reading “Now, Where Was I? Finding Your Focus as an ADHD Law Librarian”
Practice Makes Powerful: Experiential Learning in Law Libraries
By Michael Muehe As I near the end of my MS in Library and Information Science program (with just two classes left following the Spring term), I began to reflect on just how fortunate I was to have so many experiences coincide with my studies. I remember being advised early on to “work in asContinue reading “Practice Makes Powerful: Experiential Learning in Law Libraries”
Return from the “Zoomiverse”: Post-pandemic Teaching in Academic Law Libraries
By Michael Muehe Disoriented, fatigued, uncertain, exhausted. It goes without saying that the last two years shook everything we do: how we work, socialize, learn, and teach. But in turn, compounded by demands for social and racial justice, the pandemic elevated inequity issues and other causes, and also offered a time for pause and reflection,Continue reading “Return from the “Zoomiverse”: Post-pandemic Teaching in Academic Law Libraries”
Stranger in a Strange Land: Changing Jurisdictions as a New Law Librarian
By Michael Muehe In August 2021, I accepted a role as a Research Librarian Fellow at the University of San Francisco School of Law, thinking that it would be the perfect position and an opportunity to continue building my librarianship skills while I finished the last four classes of my MSLIS program. For some reason,Continue reading “Stranger in a Strange Land: Changing Jurisdictions as a New Law Librarian”