Lib Guides

During library school, I started developing research guides in my spare time for fun.
These LibGuides on law librarianship; online searching; and legal research may be helpful, particularly for new reference law librarians based in California.

My U.S., Foreign, and International Law Publications

These are all Web guides that I have created or curated during the last two years.

• Trinidad and Tobago Law and Legal Research - Published in GlobaLex
  
• U.S. Government Information on the Internet - Web Page for the Federal Depository Library Program Department
• English Case Law
• Introduction to International Intellectual Property Law
• Introduction to TRIPS
• International War Crimes Prosecution
• Introduction to Japanese Law
  
• Introduction to Chinese Law - Prepared with Vincent Moyer
• Education and Special Education Law
  
• International Human Rights Research Guide (Subject)
• International Human Rights Research Guide (Organization/Jurisdiction)

African-American academic achievement in middle school

Resources for use in promoting African-American academic achievement in middle school

Magazines

• Teaching Tolerance Magazine you can subscribe to via email
• American Educator - You can search for relevant articles

Organizations

Teaching Tolerance, The Teaching Diverse Students Initiative, is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences. Explore their website starting here.
Their website provides:

• Learning Resources
  
• Professional development content
  
• Professional development practices for teachers
• Teaching Tolerance Magazine you can subscribe to via email
• Resources that focus particularly on African American issues - developed by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
• Tools
• References
  

Websites

• Strategies for Teaching Science to African American Students - Hosted by West Virginia University (Last updated: April 22, 2005)

Books

Practice

• Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School (2006). Edited by Mica Pollock
  
• Thompson, G. (2004).Through Ebony Eyes: What Teachers Need to Know but are Afraid to Ask About African American Students. San Francisco, CA:Jossey Bass.
• Thompson, G. L. (in press). The Power of One: How You Can Help or Harm African American Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
• Thompson, G. L. (2007). Up Where We Belong: Helping African American and Latino Students Rise in School and Life.San Francisco:Jossey Bass.
• Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools (2006) by Glenn Eric Singleton and Curtis Linton
• Educating African American males: voices from the field by Olatokunbo S. Fashola
• From rage to hope : strategies for reclaiming Black & Hispanic students (2004) by Crystal Kuykendall
• The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time (2010) by Dr. Rod Paige, Dr. Elaine Witty
• No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2004) by Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom
• Thompson, G. (2003).What African American Parents Want Educators to Know. Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Publishers, Praeger.
• Black Students/Middle Class Teachers (2002) by Jawanza Kunjufu
• Learning while Black: creating educational excellence for African American Students (2001) by Janice E. Hale
• Achievement for African American Students: Strategies for the Diverse Classroom (1995) by Gary Reglin
• Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African American Students by Theresa Perry, Asa G. Hilliard, Claude Steele. Review in Education Review
• Improving Schools for African American Students: A Reader for Educational Leaders (2002) Edited by Sheryl J. Denbo and Lynson Moore Beaulieu
• Educating teachers for diversity: seeing with a cultural eye (2003) by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
• Black Students and School Failure. Policies, Practices, and Prescriptions (1990) by Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan. Review - Choice - This text is 20 years old, but the concepts may still hold true.
• Thompson, G. (2002). African American Teens Discuss Their Schooling Experiences. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishers, Bergin & Garvey.
• Thompson, G. L. (2007). The Truth About Black Students and Standardized Tests: What School Leaders Should Know. Leadership.
• Thompson, G. (2007). Improving the Schooling Experiences of African American Students: What School Leaders and Teachers Can Do. In H. Walberg & S. Paik (Eds.) Minority Children and Youth: Schools, Families, Communities, and Learning. Springer.

Theory

• Black American students in an affluent suburb: a study of academic disengagement by John U. Ogbu. Review in Education Review; Review in Journal of College Student Development; Review in Black Issues in Higher Education
• Mathematics success and failure among African-American youth (2000) by Danny Bernard Martin
• Ethnomathematics: challenging eurocentrism in mathematics education (1997) by Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein. Review in Radical Statistics Articles (2003)
• Watkins A.P. (2006, March).The Pedagogy of African American Parents: Learning From Educational Excellence in the African American community.Current Issues in Education9(7). Available: http://cie.ed.asu.edu/volume9/number7

Articles

• Thompson, G. (2004). Playing God With Other People’s Children: an Introduction to a guest edited issue of the High School Journal. 87(3), 1-4.
• Thompson, G., Warren, S. & Carter, L. (2004). It’s Not My Fault: Predicting High School Teachers Who Blame Parents and Students for Students’ Low Achievement. The High School Journal. 87(3).
• The Truth About Students of Color and Standardized Tests [doc]. (2007) by Gail L. Thompson
  
• Gutierrez, R., Bay-Williams, J., & Kanold, T. (2008, October). Beyond Access and Achievement: Equity Issues for Mathematics Teachers and Leaders. NCTM News Bulletin
• Are You Biased? by Caralee Adams, published in Scholastic Administrator

Other places to find Relevant Resources

• Articles on Equity from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Books and Journal Articles by Dr. Gail Thompson

Law Librarianship and Technology, Law and Technology Blogs

• LawLibTech - A conversation on law library technology and knowledge management with Cindy L. Chick
• beSpacific blog - Accurate, focused law and technology news, by Sabrina Pacifici - Recipient of the Special Libraries Association Innovations in Technology Award 2008
• 3 Geeks and a Law Blog - A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks, specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management, internet marketing and library sciences, melding together to form the Dynamic Trio. Greg Lambert, Lisa Salazar, Toby Brown
• code{4}lib - "The Code4Lib Journal exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future." Mission

Aggregated into one feed:
Law, Law Librarianship and Technology Blogs

Aggregated Blog feed: Law Librarianship, Legal Research and Legal Information

This Law Librarianship, Legal Research and Legal Information Aggregated Blogs yahoo pipe brings together blogs that are about law librarianship, library law, legal research, legal informatics, legal information systems and legal communication

Law Librarian Blog. - Edited by Joe Hodnicki, Library Director, Butler County Law Library and Mark Giangrande, Reference Librarian, Lecturer in Law, DePaul University Law Library

LibraryLaw Blog: Issues concerning libraries and the law - Brought to you by Mary Minow, J.D., A.M.L.S. [California, U.S.] and Peter Hirtle, M.A., M.L.S.

Legal Informatics Blog: Scholarly & Professional Commentary on Legal Information Systems & Legal Communication. - Maintained by Philadelphia based law librarian Robert Richards.

Legal Research Plus Blog - Brought to you by the Advanced Legal Research instructors at Stanford Law School

RIPS Law Librarian - Published by the Research Instruction & Patron Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries

Law Library Management articles from LLRX.com

China Law - Research help

China Law Blogs

• All Chinese Law Blogs - Aggregated feed of all Chinese law blogs listed below. You can view it at the site, or sign up for an RSS feed.
• Chinese Law Prof Blog - By Donald C. Clarke, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law.
• China Blawg - Written by Chinese and Foreign professionals at LEHMAN, LEE & XU, China's third largest, corporate commercial law firm.
• China Esquire - By UC Hastings Alumnus, San Francisco based Thomas Chow, who practices in international business transactions, corporate, exempt organizations and intellectual property law. Blog covers Chinese law, business, and non-profits.
• Chinese Law and Politics Blog - By Carl Minzner Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law.
• China Environmental Law Blog - By Charlie McElwee, International energy & environmental lawyer based in Shanghai.
• IP DRAGON 知識產權龍 : GATHERING, COMMENTING ON AND SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN CHINA TO MAKE IT MORE TRANSPARENT, SINCE 2005. - By Danny Friedmann 龍知權, consultant and author provides professional advice, reports and publications to law firms, companies, IPR holders' organisations and governments.
• China-U.S. Trade Law Insight and commentary on active trade disputes between the U.S. and China - Hosted by Baker & Hostetler LLP
• China Legal Blog - Aggregated China Law Information. This allows you to look at several china law blogs at once.

Other China News

• All Chinese News Blogs - One source for the following 8 China News Blogs
• Wall Street Journal China Real Time Report
• The China Sourcing Blog - Sponsored by THE BEIJING AXIS, cross–border business advisory firm, with offices in Beijing, Johannesburg, Moscow and Perth.
• ASIABIZBLOG - by Attorney Rich Kuslan.
  
• ChinaBizGov Highlighting interesting issues in business - government relations in Greater China - by G.E. Anderson, China specialist, former CFO, and PhD Candidate in Political Science at UCLA. Research focuses on state-owned enterprises, corporate governance and China's auto industry.
  
• China Financial Markets China’s financial and monetary links to the world - by Michael Pettis, Professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, specializing in Chinese financial markets, and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Financial Times: Dragonbeat column - Weekly column with insightful commentary and analysis on China’s economy, society and global impact. Principal authors are Arthur Kroeber, managing director of Dragonomics Research & Advisory, an independent research firm based in Beijing, and Tom Miller, managing editor of the firm’s flagship journal, China Economic Quarterly.
• China Translated - Commentary and analysis on China’s economic and political situation by Tom Orlik, Beijing based, China Economist for Stone & McCarthy Research Associates (SMRA).
• Asia Legal Blog - published by the Cypress Recruiting Group, and edited by Ash Kalb. Lists jobs at asian law firms.