CDG National Student Conference Presentation
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The document summarizes James Mullan's role as an information officer at the law firm CMS Cameron McKenna. It discusses how he arrived at his current position after obtaining degrees in information and library management. It also provides an overview of CMS Cameron McKenna, describing its size, offices, partners, and fee-earners. Additionally, it outlines Mullan's responsibilities, which include providing support to practice groups, budget administration, training, and knowledge management. The document also touches on opportunities and challenges for law librarians, including outsourcing and the rise of Web 2.0 technologies.
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CDG National Student Conference Presentation
- 1. Working in a Law Firm Library James Mullan - Information Officer CMS Cameron McKenna CDG National Conference 17 th November 2007
- 2. How I arrived here… BA (Hons) Information and Library Management Library Assistant (FE College) 1996 – 1999 MCILIP Assistant Library (FE College) 1999 – 2001 CMS Cameron McKenna 2001-
- 3. CMS Cameron McKenna 1660 people within the firm Over 55 offices and associated offices worldwide 130 partners and more than 800 fee-earners One of the top 15 law firms in the UK
- 4. Knowledge & Information Services Knowledge & Information Services reports to Director of Operations Team split into five key areas exchange Team Company Searches Knowledge Projects Document Development (Hot Docs) CEE Professional Support Team
- 5. My role… Providing support to the Practice Groups Budget administration Sector Reports Fee-earner training System Administration (LMS, Digital Recording, Statistics, Portal) Knowledge Management Intranet Pages Management
- 6. Our “Library” Not a traditional Law Library Redesigned in 2004 as the exchange
- 9. Why Law Librarianship? Remuneration Benefits and opportunities Definitely challenging Very interesting and can be rewarding If you like pressure you’re in the right place Law Librarians are well respected Opportunities to “get involved”
- 10. Other “opportunities” British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) City Legal Information Group (CLIG) City Information Group (CIG)
- 15. Challenges for Law Librarians Outsourcing Web 2.0
- 16. What is Web 2.0? “Content driven services (where content is both created and shared by its users) – Davey Winder, Information World Review 09.07 “A second generation of web-based communities and hosted services which aim to facilitate creativity collaboration, and sharing between users” - Wikipedia
- 17. What are “Web 2.0” applications? RSS Wikis Social Networking & Social Bookmarking sites Blogs