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New Year, New Way to Access Wolters Kluwer Sources at Brooklyn Law School
Guest Author: Hannah Freeman, Technology & Reference Librarian, Brooklyn Law School Library Brooklyn Law School (BLS) Library began to use OpenAthens as our authentication provider in August 2025. After a few months, we learned that our subscription with Wolters Kluwer (WK) products, VitalLaw and Kluwer Arbitration, were incompatible with OpenAthens. Initially, OpenAthens authentication worked with both products, but later broke down. BLS patrons use VitalLaw to access legal treatises such as Farnsworth Continue reading
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Machine Translation Options
Author: Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library Attorneys and students are increasingly working with foreign legal materials, causing librarians to license and troubleshoot foreign legal databases and add foreign titles to collections without fluency. Like it or not, machine translation is a necessary crutch. There were already good free/freemium tools and now GenAI Continue reading
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Professional Development Planning: 2026 CRIV Related Programming and Conferences
Author: Laurel Moran, Assistant Director, San Diego Law Library This year, I have decided to be more intentional and focused on my professional development. Perhaps it is because I sign up for webinars that I too often fail to attend, do not have time for, or forget to calendar. Last year left me feeling distracted Continue reading
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Getting Up to Speed with Vendors and WCAG
Author: Syd L. Stephenson, Technical Services & Systems Librarian, Thurgood Marshall State Law Library The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are an especially hot topic with the WCAG and ADA Title II compliance deadline coming up in April 2026. Law librarians are working diligently to ensure that the resources they provide to patrons meet these Continue reading
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Lexis+ Certification for Professionals
Author: Kamilah Wentworth, Knowledge Analyst, Neal, Gerber and Eisenberg LLP This post provides information on the Lexis+ Certification for Professionals Fall 2025 sessions that I attended. The certification can be particularly beneficial for those transitioning from Lexis Advance to Lexis+, or from Lexis+ to Lexis+AI. Adapting to these upgraded platforms can present challenges, especially when it comes Continue reading
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