July was a jam-packed month of law library and technology stories. Check out some of these posts, articles, and reports you may have missed last month!

  1. Marketplace Report: ” It Checks Out — Libraries are an “Investment That’s Well Worth It” | InfoDocket
  2. Everyone in Your Organization Needs to Understand AI Ethics | Harvard Business Review
  3. Word Processing for Lawyers | The Volokh Conspiracy: Reason
  4. Disrupting Ransomware With Advanced File System Techniques | Security Boulevard
  5. The Women in Law Issue | Law Practice Today
  6. Reimagining Law: The Importance of Law Librarians in a Digital World | 2Civiility: Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism
  7. Law Firm Software: To Buy or to Build? | Above the Law
  8. ‘The Geek in Review’ Episode 124: Maya Markovich and Ivy Grey on Creating More Value With the Time You Have | 3 Geeks and a Law
  9. Latest and Greatest: ‘Building a Better Law Office: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day’ | Ex Libris Juris: Harris County Hainsworth Law Library
  10. Library of Congress Looks to AI to Help Users Sift Through Its Collection | beSpacific
  11. Five Steps to KM Culture Change | Knoco Stories
  12. Library of Congress Adds ‘A Century of Lawmaking’ to Congress.gov | Library of Congress
  13. ‘The Vital Importance of Data for AI: Interview With Rick McFarland …’ by Ron Schmelzer | Information Today: News Breaks
  14. The Post-Pandemic Law Firm | House of Butter
  15. To AI or Not to AI: The Great Debate on Legal AI Tools | House of Butter
  16. Office workers to bosses: I’ll quit if I have to go full-time back to the office | beSpacific
  17. Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID Practical Applications and Approaches to Challenge and Change | Practice Source
  18. These Law Firm Leaders Are Pushing Back Against the ‘Back to Office’ Message | Culhane Meadows
  19. Book clubs should always meet on Zoom | Mashable
  20. Making Customizable Interactive Tutorials with Google Forms | Information Wants to Be Free
  21. This Biglaw Firm Won’t Require Attorneys To Work A Set Number Of Office Days: Yet another firm bids farewell to the pre-pandemic status quo | Above the Law
  22. How To Turn Your Library’s Frequently Asked Questions Into a Marketing Opportunity! | Stephen’s Lighthouse
  23. ‘Return to work meets hybrid office: The 6 looming questions’ | beSpacific
  24. ‘Featured Resource: Designing Your Law Firm’s New Normal’, | LawSites
  25. ‘The Geek in Review’ Episode 125: Shailini George on Law Students Doing Well and Being Well | 3 Geeks and a Law
  26. What Will Be the Language of Our Digital Future? | The Nation
  27. Podcast on Law Librarians and their Role in Access to Justice | Library Boy
  28. ‘PLLIP Summit 2021 Recap: Think Positively About Change and Embrace Flux!’ | On Firmer Ground
  29. How to Effectively Do Legal Research | The National Law Review
  30. Could You Build a Law Library From Nothing? | Slaw
  31. The Government Information Landscape and Libraries | IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
  32. During COVID, Libraries Had to Go Virtual. They Aren’t Going Back. | The Times: Tigard, Oregon
  33. How to Find the Documents Behind Big Legal Cases | The Verge
  34. Here Are Five Takeaways From the Supreme Court Term | NPR
  35. New Database: Military and Government | HeinOnline Blog
  36. Is Remote Work a Thing Now? | Slaw
  37. AALL Virtual Conference Recap: Speakers, Panelists Highlight Inclusion and Diversity Efforts | On Firmer Ground
  38. Vault Ranks The Best Summer Associate Programs (2022) | Above the Law
  39. What is the Blockchain: A Guide for Lawyers | House of Butter
  40. How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private | beSpacific
  41. How Electronic Records and Physical Records Differ | Lucidea
  42. The Impact of Digital Innovation on the Legal Industry | Reinventing Professional Services
  43. ‘Law Firm Tech Budgets Scrap ‘Next Big Thing’ in Favor of the Basics’ | Law.com
  44. Legal Futures Article: Is artificial intelligence making lawyers redundant? | House of Butter
  45. Artificial Intelligence Patent Dataset | beSpacific
  46. Interleaving in Library Training | Lucidea
  47. American Library Association Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scorecard | Library Boy
  48. Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Disruption on The Legal Industry | Lex Blog Network
  49. As the Use of AI Spreads, Congress Looks to Rein It In | beSpacific
  50. ‘Fastcase Announces the 2021 Class of Fastcse 50 Including 8 Library and Knowledge Professionals’ | Dewey B Strategic