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Item 2018: A Legal Research Odyssey: Artificial Intelligence as Disruptor(Law Library Journal, 2018) Baker, Jamie J.Cognitive computing has the power to make legal research more efficient, but it does not eliminate the need to teach law students sound legal research process and strategy. Law librarians must also instruct on using artificial intelligence responsibly in the face of algorithmic transparency, the duty of technology competence, malpractice pitfalls, and the unauthorized practice of law.Item Beyond the Information Age: The Duty of Technology Competence in the Algorithmic Society(South Carolina Law Review, 2018) Baker, Jamie J.While law has generally been slow to adapt to technological change, the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct amended the Duty of Competence language to include a Duty of Technology Competence. This duty requires lawyers to keep abreast of “changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.” A majority of states have now adopted this new Duty of Technology Competence, but there is little guidance on its current reach. The guidance documents mainly discuss the duty in terms of eDiscovery, electronic storage, social media, and the cloud. As society moves beyond the Information Age to the Algorithmic Society, this duty should extend to the competent use of artificial intelligence and algorithms in law. As such, it behooves the legal academy to prepare lawyers for ethical practice in this brave new world.Item Deo, Meera E., Mindie Lazarus-Black, and Elizabeth Mertz, eds. Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures. New York: Routledge, 2020. 302p. $140. Reviewed by Jamie J. Baker(Law Library Journal, 2020) Baker, Jamie J.A book review of Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures by Meera Deo. Baker discusses each part of the book and states that the book provides a thoughtful discussion of the systemic issues perpetuating unequal hierarchies in the legal academy and beyond. Overall, this is a recommended title.Item Developing ALLStAR with Community Participation(AALL Spectrum, 2020) Baker, Jamie J.Discusses the challenges, successes, and future of the new library research survey instrument (ALLStAR) and its dependence on law library community support. ALLStAR is a database of law library statistics. The ALLStAR database can be used for various types of reporting including, comparison reporting; but only if member libraries supports the database by contributing their annual statists.Item The Intersectionality of Law Librarianship & Gender(Villanova Law Review, 2020) Baker, Jamie J.Like the legal writing community who has brought this issue to the forefront, it is important for law librarians to be fully included in the discussion surrounding statusXgender is the legal academy. This Article attempts to do just that. Part I of this Article provides a historical background in librarianship as a pink-collar profession. Part II discusses the pink ghetto in the legal academy and provides a history of law librarians within the legal academy. Part II concludes with a discussion of law librarians inhabiting the pink ghetto of the legal academy. Part III provides insight into the effects of living in a hierarchy, and Part IV concludes with recommendations for improvement.Item Keeping Up with New Legal Titles(Law Library Journal, 2018) Baker, Jamie J.Reviews Safiya Umoja’s book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. Baker discusses some of the main points of this book which covers the secrecy of commercial search algorithms and the issues of not understanding how these search engines process searches. The review also touches on the problems of racist classification of people and the misrepresentations in classifying people in the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the bias in library discovery systems. Overall, Baker recommends this book for its dynamic discussion of classification systems and information structures and for use in advanced legal research courses when the instructor focuses on the benefits and risks associated with algorithmic technology.Item Leadership Recs(AALL Spectrum, 2020) Baker, Jamie J.; Sanborne, David; Nejdl, Clanitra Stewart; Young, EricA collection of responses from four law library leaders answering the question, “What book would you recommend or wish you had read before taking on a leadership role?” Each author provides a brief recommendation of a book along with information on why it would or is valuable to them as a leader.Item Managing Career Success: The Philosophy of a Millennial Leader’s Role(William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2018) Baker, Jamie J.This book is not only important for Millennial librarians to have a base of literature from which they can draw information, guidance, or inspiration, it is also important for librarians from other generations to understand what Millennial librarians have to offer and how their entree into library leadership will affect the profession. This book, with chapters written by librarians from every generation and from libraries of all kinds, seeks to fill that void. Section I brings together chapters that focus on the need for a new generation of leaders in libraries. The chapters in Section II touch on library relationships across generations: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Section III includes chapters that detail how Millennial leaders work in libraries, from outreach and marketing to blogging and collaborating. Section IV, while short, is an essential read for any current library leaders or administrators seeking to bring Millennial leaders into the library, or to cultivate the Millennial leadership that's already found in the library. Finally, Section V includes chapters on career planning for Millennial librarians.Item Shaping Legal Data Analytics(AALL Spectrum, 2019) Stouffer, Christine M.; Baker, Jamie J.Responses from two directors of law libraries (one university and one corporate) to the question, “How are you preparing legal information professionals to incorporate data analytics into their research work product? Are there any best practices you can share?” These two directors look at data analytics and discuss how they have incorporated best practices into their libraries.Item The Intersectionality of Law Librarianship & Gender(Villanova Law Review, 2020) Baker, Jamie J.Like the legal writing community who has brought this issue to the forefront, it is important for law librarians to be fully included in the discussion surrounding statusXgender is the legal academy. This Article attempts to do just that. Part I of this Article provides a historical background in librarianship as a pink-collar profession. Part II discusses the pink ghetto in the legal academy and provides a history of law librarians within the legal academy. Part II concludes with a discussion of law librarians inhabiting the pink ghetto of the legal academy. Part III provides insight into the effects of living in a hierarchy, and Part IV concludes with recommendations for improvement.