New from Law Library Journal

Since I mentioned the Association of American Law Libraries in an earlier post today, I thought I would point out a few articles in the most recent issue of their Law Library Journal:

• Visual Literacy and the Design of Legal Web Sites
  Explains the principles of "visual literacy" and how they apply to building and improving websites, evaluates several well-known sites and suggests ways to avoid common design flaws
• Is an Annual Report in Your Library’s Future?
  The author explains that she originally looked into the content, structure and dissemination of library annual reports in the academic environment, but she adds that the principles can apply to law libraries in any setting
• Educating Aspiring Law Librarians: A Student’s Perspective
  The author presents a case for additional law librarianship training in library schools
• Legal Reference Services: An Annotated Bibliography
  This is written by a reference librarian at the University of Western Ontario

The annotated bibliographies are one of the really fun parts of the Law Library Journal. My favourite from an earlier issue: Baseball and the Law: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, 1990–2004

Hmm... Maybe a few of us should get together and develop an annotated bibliography on hockey and the law.