{"id":143,"date":"2006-09-24T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T03:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/09\/24\/two-law-librarians-join-the-shlep-team\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T21:00:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T01:00:27","slug":"two-law-librarians-join-the-shlep-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/09\/24\/two-law-librarians-join-the-shlep-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Law Librarians Join The shlep Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 [in pre-launch<\/em> status, as we <\/font>search for a shlep<\/em> team<\/font><\/a>\u00a0— can you contribute?]\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n

If<\/em> things go smoothly, this weblog will be “officially launched” on October 1st, when\u00a0shlep<\/em>‘s founding team of authors and contributors will be announced and\u00a0start posting on this Home Page.\u00a0\u00a0 However,\u00a0I’m too excited to wait a week to tell you about our first two recruits.<\/p>\n

\"LibraryDoors\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two law librarians — each a practicing lawyer prior to earning a degree in library science — have volunteered to make regular postings\u00a0at shlep.\u00a0 <\/em>One brings long experience at academic law libraries, the other is a “pro se<\/em> practitioner” at a public law library.<\/p>\n

Mary Whisner<\/strong> is a reference librarian at the Gallagher Law Library of the University of Washington School of Law, and the editor\/author of the Trial Ad Notes<\/font><\/a><\/em><\/font><\/font>\u00a0weblog.\u00a0 (Her CV<\/font><\/a><\/font>\u00a0quickly humbled\u00a0This shlep<\/em> Editor.)\u00a0 Mary wrote\u00a0the Gallagher Guide\u00a0for Members of the Public<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/font>.\u00a0 Readers of The Virtual Chase<\/a><\/em><\/font>, The Law Librarian Blog<\/a><\/em><\/font>, and\u00a0WILT<\/font><\/a><\/em><\/font>\u00a0recently got to know Mary through her Law Library Journal<\/em> article “A Blog’s Life<\/a>,” from her Practicing Reference column in LLJ<\/em>.<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

John Cannan<\/strong> is an <\/span>Assistant Law Librarian at the <\/span>Montgomery<\/span> County<\/span><\/font><\/a> [Maryland] Circuit Court Library<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0His legal reference skills often assist the Court’s\u00a0pro se<\/em> project<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0John brings the enthusiasm of a “newly minted” MLS and a love of technology and legal research & writing to his job and to his first weblog gig.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mary and John plan to provide shlep<\/em>‘s visitors with weekly postings on many aspects of self-help law.\u00a0 If we’re lucky, they’ll find time\u00a0among their many responsibilities to post even more\u00a0often.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I hope their decision to work on shlep<\/em> will inspire others to respond to our\u00a0continuing\u00a0Help Wanted<\/strong><\/font><\/a>\u00a0plea.\u00a0 There’s still plenty of room on our roster for\u00a0individuals committed to self-help law and eager to make a significant contribution\u00a0to a quality team.\u00a0\u00a0We’re especially looking for that\u00a0special person willing to take on a true co-editor role at the original\u00a0self-help law weblog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 [in pre-launch status, as we search for a shlep team\u00a0— can you contribute?]\u00a0\u00a0 If things go smoothly, this weblog will be “officially launched” on October 1st, when\u00a0shlep‘s founding team of authors and contributors will be announced and\u00a0start posting on this Home Page.\u00a0\u00a0 However,\u00a0I’m too excited to wait a week to tell you about our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-admin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}