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Item Book Review, Conversations from the Trenches: Review of A Handbook for Corporate Professionals(American Association of Law Libraries, 2015-05-18) Lemmer, Catherine A.Book review.Item Book Review: American Law 101(International Association of Law Libraries, 2014-12) Lemmer, Catherine A.Book review of American Law 101: An Easy Primer on the U.S. Legal System by Jasper Kim.Item Book Review: The Accidental Law Librarian(American Library Association, College & Research Libraries, 2014-11) Lemmer, Catherine A.Review of The Accidental Law Librarian by Anthony Aycock.Item The Challenge of Library Management: Leading with Emotional Engagement(American Library Association, 2012) Lemmer, Catherine A.The Challenge of Library Management: Leading with Emotional Engagement. By Wyoma VanDuinkerken and Pixey Anne Mosley, Chicago: American Library Association, 2011. 169p. alk. paper, $52.00 (ISBN 9780838911020). Authors VanDuinkerken and Mosley begin with the premise that the greatest challenge facing libraries is the recognition that, without change, our past strengths will become our liabilities. In nine brief chapters, the authors detail the unique challenges facing administrators and managers charged with leading change in a library environment. Through the translation and application of private sector corporate change management literature and research, the authors advise how to become an effective change leader in library environs. The structure of the book, well documented with over 150 sources, is effective for both new managers and seasoned managers in need of a refresher who may be charged with leading either small- or large-scale organizational changes.Item Competitive Intelligence: Giving Our Students A Leg Up(RIPS Law Librarian Blog, 2014-12-08) Lemmer, Catherine A.Essay on the importance of teaching competitive intelligence and business development skills to law students.Item Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well(2012) Lemmer, Catherine A.Americans often wonder if our democratic system of government truly represents the wishes of the people. In Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn’t Work at All Works So Well, Mike Edwards, political scientist and founder of Leftfielder.org, and Danny Oppenheimer, Princeton University psychologist, attempt to make sense of our system by stating and investigating this basic paradox: “If voters are irrational and uninformed, and the election process flawed, why is democracy successful?”Item Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court(American Association of Law Libraries, 2012) Lemmer, Catherine A.Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court by Leslie Paik. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. 226p. $25.95, paper. Sociologist Leslie Paik’s ethnography of a juvenile drug court in Southern California that diverts felony-level substance abusers into drug treatment programs rather than prison challenges the underlying “therapeutic orientation” message of this widely accepted model of alternative justice. Using data collected from fifteen months of participant observation and interviews with members of the drug court staff, juvenile participants and their families, Paik asks the reader to consider if “drug courts are truly therapeutic or are they simply a new form of punishment under the guise of help.” Paik advocates that the emphasis on individual accountability ignores the reality of social structures and systemic barriers that shape the juvenile’s ability to control his or her own actions. In the end, Paik argues that determinations of success or compliance based on a concept of individual accountability actually veil differential legal treatment based on race, class and gender.Item The disillusionment of knowing(American Association of Law Libraries, 2015-01-26) Lemmer, Catherine A.Essay on statutory law.Item ?: Do grammar & punctuation errors effect/affect how U view professional communication?(RIPS Law Librarian Blog, 2014-05-08) Lemmer, Catherine A.Essay blog post on the importance of teaching law students email communication skills.Item Editor's Note: Reflections From the No Standing Still Zone(http://www.aallnet.org/mm/Publications/spectrum/archives/Vol-20/No-4/Editors-Note.pdf, 2016-03-01) Lemmer, Catherine A.Editorial column in law librarianship professional journal re: developing new skills.