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Save It For Later — David Whelan How to make a website more resilient against link death? One way is to save things to an archive you run on your own site. But how?

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A Path to Librarianship — David Whelan The job market is tough but hiring processes can make it worse than it already is. Libraries need to think about how they treat candidates.

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

Powerful, hopeful read from @adamserwer.bsky.social

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

#Minnesota #Trump

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Through the Shoals of PowerAutomate — David Whelan PowerAutomate is an interesting tool to show law students about practice automation but there is a jumble of options and "low code" apps.

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The Chimera of the Self-Hosted Digital Library — David Whelan I saw a comment on how self-hosted libraries might work. Technology is the least of the challenges in creating a digital self-hosted library.

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The Changing Times — David Whelan Time can be a taskmaster. New year's holidays can emphasize an unhealthy focus on completing things within an arbitrary time frame.

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Æ is for Effort — David Whelan We should look for opportunities to encourage participation and growth, whether as teachers or leaders, in our organizations.

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The Inbox and the Desk Chair — David Whelan I was away from the office and my email inbox showed it. It reinforced that we are doing things without thinking about why we are doing them.

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Blog Post Rescue Mission — David Whelan A blogger should always be ready to migrate. The best way to be ready is to own and control your own website and content as much as possible.

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Dog Fooding the LMS — David Whelan I have a dual role, as manager of an instructional design team and as an instructor and end user. Now I can see the LMS from both ends.

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Scholarship Clout Chasing — David Whelan A publishing platform pitched a branded landing page. I wonder how I could justify any investment based on publisher clout chasing.

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Artificial Intelligence is a Gift — David Whelan I had a chance to talk to law students about using artificial intelligence. We had great questions and it gave me a lot of food for thought.

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High-Profile Presentation Logistics — David Whelan I had a high-profile virtual presentation to make. This is how I maximized my use of my dual monitors to be prepared for all comers.

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Wrangling the Money — David Whelan The cost of managing print format payables is one of the key issues that may lead our library to cancel most of our print subscriptions.

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The Bump and the Grind — David Whelan Some projects lack shape, making them hard to plan for. My summer projects required me to be prepared to pivot as each required attention.

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Law Through A Kaleidoscope — David Whelan Journalists telling stories fail when they neither put that legal information within reach of their readers nor context of their story.

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Irresolute Literacy — David Whelan Bans on technology like artificial intelligence focus on process. We waste resources trying to manage tools instead of impacting outcomes.

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The Blog Horizon — David Whelan Blogs rose and fell and there is an opportunity for blogs and blog-like content to rise again. Writers can contribute and amplify themselves.

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Give It Your 85% — David Whelan Sometimes we need to just take time to think. Modern work does not always allow for that and leaders need to ensure it can happen.

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One Trip Around the Sun — David Whelan A year as an academic law library director has illuminated some strengths and weaknesses but, overall, has been positive.

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Caught Between Publishers and a Hard Place — David Whelan Another county is finding out that the cost to run a law library involves more than money. The answer may be to shift the law library.

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Judge criticises lawyers acting for boy accused of murder for filing misleading AI-created documents Documents filed included references to nonexistent case citations and inaccurate quotes from a parliamentary speech, judge says

One thing about #lawyers and #AI is that we are seeing where participants in the legal system are not doing the work. This case involves defense filings which were then relied on by prosecution, neither set of lawyers verifying the citations. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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The Form of the Law — David Whelan We offer self-represented parties forms to help them. Agencies can do more to help the self-represented party understand what is going on.

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All About the Action: Are lawyers more at risk for gambling addiction? The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Interesting look at #lawyers and problems with #gambling, including how it can lead to professional misconduct. Struck by the fact this is citing 9 year old research on substance abuse; time for @americanbar.org to update w/ gambling added in
www.abajournal.com/magazine/art...

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Biglaw Is Under Attack. Here's What The Firms Are Doing About It. - Above the Law Introducing the Biglaw Spine Index.

See also: @abovethelaw.com's Big Law Spine index, where you can sort by "law firm response" of "capitulation", for example. abovethelaw.com/2025/04/bigl... #Lawyers #Professionalism #LawFirms

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Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and...

Good @propublica.org piece on the impacts of law firms like @kirkland-ellis.bsky.social , Sidley Austin, Davis Polk, Wachtel, et al., placing money over what matters. Diminishing the legal profession, undermining access to justice.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... #Lawyers #AccessToJustice #Ethics

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