Guest post by Aimee Self Pittman, Reference and Legal Research Librarian at LSU Law Library.
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Is it April 1 again?
Since I already got fooled once today (“Wow, the ChatGPT-5 preview sounds amazing…oh wait“), I figured I’d share my favorite list of April Fool’s jokes. April Fools’ Day on the Web tracks the most popular pranks each year so you wont’ miss out on the best ones. You can see this year’s jokes…
Striking Similarities: Law Librarianship and the Art of Bowling
On the surface, the worlds of law libraries and bowling alleys might seem to occupy opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. I have been an active bowler since the age of 7. It was and will forever be the one sport that I play, and as I reflected on the sport, parallels started to emerge.…
Artificial Intelligence and Context
Guest post by Justin Tung, Reference Librarian at Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law
Recently, Adam Bent, a fellow Law Librarian and former classmate of mine, published an article in Pace Law Review entitled “Large Language Models: AI’s Legal Revolution.”[1] In it, he lays out a well-researched history of Chatbots and…
Large Tech
Let’s talk about big tech – physically big, that is. With all the focus on cloud-based tools and other software, it’s easy to forget about the hardware. Here are a few of the most useful, novel, or interesting “large tech” items we’ve seen or heard of in libraries recently. Add your own in the comments!…
LIT-SIS Membership Survey Results
Survey Results from LIT-SIS Membership
LIT-SIS conducted a survey of members that concluded mid-December 2023. Participation was good with 66 respondents. Here is a brief summary of the results:
- Most respondents would prefer quarterly educational programing/professional development events (not including the AALL Annual meeting).
- 21% of the respondents reported they attend the AALL Annual meeting
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Book Recommendation
Over the time off between holidays at the end of 2023, I had the opportunity of checking out Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf from my local public library. Wolf looks into the digital age’s impact on the human brain, particularly in the context of reading.
She introduces…
A Cursory Look at Lexis+ AI
Guest post by Justin Tung [1]
What Lexis+ AI is, and What it Promises
On Friday, November 17, 2023, Lexis sent an email announcing access to its new generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool called Lexis+ AI. It promises “the fastest legal generative AI with conversational search, drafting, summarization, document analysis, and linked hallucination-free legal citations.”…
Can Lexis+ AI pass 1L year? An experiment.
This fall, Lexis+ AI will be attempting final exams in Torts, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Property, Legal Research, Professional Responsibility, and Environmental Law alongside the law students at the University of Wyoming College of Law. The catch? The professors will not know when they’re grading which exam answers were generated by Lexis Omniscient the AI Assistant.…
Meet Your LIT-SIS Past Chair, Will Monroe
In this series, we’re getting to know our LIT-SIS board. In this fourth installment, Will Monroe, LIT-SIS Past Chair, answers a few questions. Read on to get to know more about Will, who is the Assistant Director for Instructional Technology at the LSU Law Library!
1) Tell us about your path to law librarianship.
My…