Welcome to Teaching Legal

Hello, blawgdom, and welcome to Teaching Legal. Remember me? I am that law library training, technology and marketing enthusiast who used to write for LLRX back in the day (that would be BC, before children), Cindy Carlson. Even before that I was the training, technology and marketing enthusiast, Cindy Curling. The kids are a little more independent these days, and I am happy to be getting back to keeping up with and writing about some of my favorite topics again.

When I started designing a library training program for a law firm in DC, back in that day, I didn't have many models to draw on, so I organized a community within my library association to discuss training topics and share ideas. We haven't been active lately, but progess is slowly being made to change that.

My philosophy has always been not to reinvent the wheel where it wasn't necessary, and that the efforts of a group of like-minded people is bound to result in more useful ideas than I could ever come up with on my own. I'd like to see that idea carry over into this space as well.

I'm still involved in training, though now I work for a legal publisher, and I mostly train other librarians (rather than attorneys) so they can best take advantage of what my company offers and ensure that their voices are heard within my company. Those who know me well know that I still have one foot firmly in the librarian camp, and I think that makes me better at what I do. I am not directly involved in sales, and I feel that part of being able to do my job well is to stay aware of what else is going on in legal research information, technology and training. My plan for this blog is not for it to be a company blog, or limited only to discussions of specific products, but a space where law librarians can generate conversations about how people are approaching training overall, what resources they recommend, trends they see, and futures they envision.

I hope you'll join the conversation.