Searching High and Low: Advanced Search Tips and Tricks

Searching is easy; so much so, that you can be surprised when the desired information is not retrieved in the first few search results when doing a basic Google search. A basic Google search, while a good place to begin, should not also be the end of your search. This paper gives you search strategies to apply when a basic Google search does not produce the results yo

Program Report: Innovation Tournament

Wendy Moore summarizes the Innovation Tournament from the recent AALL annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in July 2019. Technical Services Law Librarian (ISSN 0195-4857) is an official publication of the Technical Services Special Interest Section and the Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries. https://www.aallnet.org/tssis/resources-publications/technical-services-law-librarian

But Can You Dance to It?: A Greatest Hits Mixtape of Legal Websites

Provides a vetted listed of highly-useful websites for conducting legal research at the local, state, national, and international levels

Listicles of Legal Websites

Contains 52 carefully selected websites to help legal professionals stay current on legal issues and to help them engage in effective legal research online. Includes blogs, portals, databases, news sites, and general websites

Crowdsourcing a Skill Set to Manage the Legal Information of the Future: Learn How to Pitch

Provides an updated assessment of the importance of elevator pitches and tips for being a more effective, concise, and conversational communicator

Getting Geared Up with Google: Searching Beyond the Search Box

We have grown accustom to having information readily available via the Internet. Searching is easy; so much so, that you can be surprised when the desired information is not retrieved in the first few search results when doing a basic Google search. When you are trying to retrieve information needed to conduct business or assist a client, you want to find the best results with the least amount of time spent. A basic Google search, while a good place to begin, should not also be the end of your search. This paper gives you search strategies to apply when a basic Google search does not produce the results you need

Growing Old in New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me

Wendy Moore, Doctoral student at the University of South Carolina\u27s SLIS program, and a cataloger at Francis Marion\u27s James A. Rogers Library, reviews Growing Old in New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me by Michael E. Goings

Great Resources for the Great Recession : Useful Business Sources on the Internet

Explore 48 business websites, drawn from governmental, non-profit, and commercial information resources, that provide good examples of the types of information sources available to meet Internet business research needs

Locating Legal Periodicals and Journal Articles

Can you really read a law review or journal article on the Web? The answer is, it depends. There are a growing number of legal periodicals that are freely available via the Internet, but sometimes determining if a specific article or topic is available and then tracking it down can be a lot of work. For example, what if you are interested in identifying some current articles published in a certain legal field, such as immigration? No matter how good a searcher you are, it is nearly impossible to put recent Immigration Law articles into Google and get back a concise, usable list of articles. Instead, the best searching method to follow is making use of specialized websites, which assist in finding articles and legal periodicals on the Internet. Below are a few of these sites that will make the task of searching out articles easier and more time-efficient