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Vol. 55, No. 2 (Winter 2012): Mentoring and Staff Development

Encouragement for new and up-and-coming librarians, the experience of mentoring or being mentored, continuing education, and new or nontraditional skills that are helpful for law librarians to learn.

2011-12 Editorial Staff:

	Editor Jill Smith University of Maryland School of Law, Thurgood Marshall Law Library jasmith@law.umaryland.edu 410/706-6855	Assistant Editor Melanie Oberlin Instructional Services Librarian George Mason University School of Law moberlin@gmu.edu 703/993-8111
	If you would like to write an article for Lights, please contact Jill Smith at jasmith@law.umaryland.edu *The themes for the 2011-2012 issues of Lights* are: Spring 2012: - Career Planning, Leadership, and Management - articles should be submitted by March 20** Plotting your career course, changing directions for libraries and the impact on staff, leadership across the generational and experiential gap.
	*Recent past issues of Lights:* Fall 2011: Marketing Your Library New and innovative ways of advertising a library's collection and services, patron responses to marketing efforts, ways of communicating with new users or groups, planning a marketing campaign, and measuring results. Summer 2011: What Are You Doing This Summer? Spring 2011: How Do You Use Technology Keeping up with rapidly evolving technology, selecting the best technological tool for the task, and the impact of technology on the profession of librarianship. Winter 2011: Learning on the Job Capturing the aspects of law librarianship learned by doing. Fall 2010: Teaching and Training Engaging with users and teaching them how to get the most out of library resources. Fall 2009: The Economy and Law Libraries Review of the AALL program on the new economic reality; an overview of competitive intelligence; free and low-cost legal research; using archival techniques in libraries; and team twittering.
	Winter 2010: Accommodation: What Libraries Do to Serve Patrons with Disabilities Working with SCOTUS' first visually impaired law clerk; future of an e-USC; Congressional Rules; A Review of OCLC Digital Forum West; candidate biographies; Universal truths about teaching
	Spring 2010: More than Books Services, collections, and other aspects of our libraries that go beyond providing print sources
	Summer 2010: Focus on Research The summer sequel to the blockbuster 2007 Lights issue Researching Special Areas
	Beginning with Volume 50 (2006-2007), Lights adopted an electronic-only format. Issues in this new format can be linked to from this page. Older issues (Sept/Oct 1998 through Spring/Summer 2006) may be accessed at this page. 2008-2009 Issues of Law Library Lights Vol. 52, no. 1 (Fall 2008) What I Did Last Summer Vol. 52, no. 2 (Winter 2009) The Global Library Vol. 52, nos. 3 & 4 (Spring & Summer 2009) What Makes D.C. Special and The Spirit of Innovation 2007-08 Issues of Law Library Lights Vol. 51, no. 1 (Fall 2007): The Education Issue Vol. 51, no. 2 (Winter 2008): Extreme Makeover: Library Edition Vol. 51, no. 3 (Spring 2008): Public Relations Vol. 51, no. 4 (Summer 2008): Life Cycle of a Law Librarian 2006-07 Issues of Law Library Lights
	Vol. 50, no. 1 (Fall 2006): The Technology Issue Vol. 50, no. 2 (Winter 2007): A Day in the Life of a Law Librarian Vol. 50, no. 3 (Spring 2007): Researching Special Areas Vol. 50, no. 4 (Summer 2007): Secret Lives of Law Librarians
	Past Issues of Law Library Lights - Click Here

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