Connie Crosby

connieblog@sympatico.ca

My first CIL!!  I look forward to meeting many of the people I talk with in cyberspace.  Please feel free to say hello if you see me (even if you haven't talked to me before).   I am a law librarian, library manager for a Canadian law firm based in Toronto.  I am also a blogger, writer, speaker, conference organizer and podcaster wannabe.  I am very active on the web and love to learn about what is new and on the edge.  Tell me about your favourite project, library-based or otherwise.  If you are VERY lucky, I might ask to record an interview with you for a future potential not-yet-named podcast.  Be warned:  give me your business card and I will probably invite you to connect on LinkedIn. 

Main blog

Libraries Without Borders blog - 4th Northeast Regional Law Libraries Conference October 17-20, 2007, Toronto, Canada

Slaw - Cooperative Canadian legal research and technology blog

Library Leaders blog

LLRX.com column:  The Tao of Law Librarianship

Canadian correspondent on podcast Check This Out! by Jim Milles

CIL Schedule

• arriving in DC on Saturday, spending day and evening with friends
• arriving at hotel sometime Sunday
• Monday first coffee break - 9:45 - 10:15 am - conference call re: NE2007
• general conference attendance; I haven't reviewed the schedule yet
• available for general meet-ups, carousing, especially with blogger and Library 2.0 types!  - What about a dine around??
• co-presenting two post-conference workshops with Sabrina Pacifici on Thursday, April 19th (see below).  Are you registered for one of these? 

CiL 2007 Post-conference Workshops

Workshop 14 — Super-Charged Blogging: Delivering Innovative Enterprise and Client Services

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Sabrina Pacifici, Law Librarian, & Editor/Publisher of LLRX.com and beSpacific.com &

Connie Crosby, Library Manager, WeirFoulds LLP

Taught by experienced bloggers, this workshop looks at what communication methods could be replaced by blogging, what manual or online processes could be replaced or supplemented by blogging, and how RSS and news feeds from both local and enterprisewide, fee-based services or free services can improve delivery and awareness of information. It illustrates what can be done with blog applications (e.g., Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, Movable Type); audio posts/podcasting; video posts; posting from cell phones or PDAs; and other hot new features and/or gadgets. With case studies and interactive discussions the following issues are considered: enterprise blogging for certain departments or processes (e.g., getting a reference group or catalogers to create and share resources and ongoing updates); marketing services within an organization and to an organization’s clients; blogging ethics and guidelines; strategies for collaborative blogging; getting nonbloggers to post; using blogs to create RSS feeds; news aggregators; types of information suitable for blogging (i.e., how to set up processes by which you can gather, analyze, compile, and publish current content to your blog); selling blogging as a worthwhile venture in your organization; and more.

Workshop 20 — Mining Blogs & RSS for Research

Sabrina Pacifici, Law Librarian, & Editor/Publisher of LLRX.com and beSpacific.com &

Connie Crosby, Library Manager, WeirFoulds LLP

This workshop focuses on leveraging the best of free and low-fee Web sites as well as Web-related services to support research services. It includes “best of the Web” for CI (competitive intelligence), legislation, news, public services, government documents, and information—sites you need to know about and incorporate in your daily work routine.

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