{"id":607,"date":"2007-03-18T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/18\/law-librarians-theyre-hot-and-cool\/"},"modified":"2007-03-18T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T00:02:45","slug":"law-librarians-theyre-hot-and-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/18\/law-librarians-theyre-hot-and-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"law librarians: they&#8217;re hot and cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A good self-helper, like a good librarian,\u00a0needs perseverance and follow-through.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;d\u00a0be obliged to follow up our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/03\/mooning-over-law-librarians\/\">prior post<\/a>\u00a0about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abovethelaw.com\/libraries_librarians\/\"><em>Law Librarian Hotties Contest<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>at <em>Above the\u00a0Law,<\/em>\u00a0even if it weren&#8217;t a fun way to remind the world that old stereotypes about librarians need to be amended (or even repealed).\u00a0 After a month of reader polling, David Lat announced the winners on March 15, 2007:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is\u00a0America&#8217;s Hottest Female Law Librarian? <\/strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"57\" alt=\"JoyHanson\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2007\/03\/JoyHanson.jpg\" width=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/fac\/hanson\/\">Joy Hanson<\/a>, Research Librarian, United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC. Formerly Reference Librarian, Duke Law School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"84\" alt=\"LarryReeves\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2007\/03\/LarryReeves.jpg\" width=\"60\" \/>\u00a0Who is\u00a0America&#8217;s Hottest Male Law Librarian?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/law.fordham.edu\/ihtml\/dir-2bioadjPP.ihtml?id=659&amp;bid=1229\">Larry Reeves<\/a>,\u00a0Adjunct Associate Professor of Law &amp; Coordinator, First-Year Legal Research Program, Fordham Law School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious about the field of Law Librarian Hottie contestants, click to see and read about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abovethelaw.com\/2007\/02\/law_librarian_hotties_your_fem.php\"><font color=\"#00418b\">Female Nominees<\/font><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abovethelaw.com\/2007\/03\/law_librarian_hotties_your_mal.php\"><font color=\"#00418b\">Male Nominees<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0 I hope it goes without saying that your <em>shlep<\/em> Editor in no way condones the puerile, mean-spirited comments found at the <em>Above the Law<\/em> website.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want some self-help substance regarding law librarians, see our post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/08\/22\/trust-your-online-virtual-reference-librarian\/\">trust your online virtual reference librarian<\/a>,&#8221; to learn about LiveHelp and other online virtual\/chat reference services\u00a0provided by librarians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"44\" alt=\"waldoSorting\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2007\/03\/waldoSorting.gif\" width=\"60\" \/>\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know if\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abovethelaw.com\/\">Above the Law<\/a><\/em>\u00a0will ever hold a Hottie Contest for Anonymous Webloggers.\u00a0 We do know, when it comes to <em>follow-through<\/em>, that nobody beats the Editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/blawgreview.blogspot.com\/\"><em>Blawg Review<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The anonymous <em>BR<\/em> Editor [&#8220;Ed&#8221;] scours the &#8220;blawgiverse&#8221; every week in search of the best weblog offerings by lawyers, law professors and law students.\u00a0 He is assisted each week by a few hearty associate editors and a Guest Host, who posts the results on his or her host weblog each Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We want to congratulate &#8220;Ed&#8221; for his <em>perseverance<\/em>, as demonstrated by the unveiling today of <a href=\"http:\/\/blawgreview.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/blawg-review-100.html\"><em>Blawg Review #100<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(March 18, 2007- yes, a very unlawyerly day before his deadline).\u00a0 <em>Blawg Review 100<\/em> focuses on the\u00a090 or so\u00a0weblogs that have hosted\u00a0its law-weblog carnival, picking a recent posting of note from each site.\u00a0\u00a0Because <em>f\/k\/a<\/em> hosted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/04\/10\/blawg-review-52\/\">Blawg Review #52<\/a>, Ed was kind enough to point his readers to my recent posting there, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/03\/12\/no-professional-courtesy-shark-bites-lawyer\/\">no professional courtesy? 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