Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
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Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 6
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 5
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 4
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 3
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Part 2
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the first installment of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns
by Aycock and Allman
First, a little history…
Long ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth, Kim Allman had aspirations to be a comic book artist. He did flirt with that medium for a time but other responsibilities led him on a slightly different path. He has earned his living over time as a caricaturist, an illustrator, and a designer. Art is a tough business however, and becoming a paralegal and eventually ending up as the circulation manager for the Law Library of the Charlotte School of Law has proven a far more stable way to make a living. He has never given up on his passion for cartooning and Murphy’s Law School is one way for him to indulge that muse. Anthony and he both hope to bring you regular installments of an entire host of odd ball characters. You might even recognize some of them.
Anthony Aycock is currently the library director at the North Carolina Justice Academy, a criminal justice training facility. He helped start the Charlotte School of Law Library in 2006 and served as its director of public services until 2009. He is also a writer, having published essays in The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Library Journal.
Anthony and Kim Allman created the first comic strip in 2008. Inspired by such strips as The Far Side, Doonesbury, and Calvin and Hobbes, the strip, called Inter Alia, aimed to ease the stress of law school life by dramatizing its absurdities. It was published in the student newsletter.
The strip soon became a regular feature in the monthly newsletter. Tom Hemstock, another Charlotte Law librarian, soon joined Anthony as a writer for the strip. When Anthony and Tom created the library blog, the strip, now re-named Murphy’s Law School, found its new home. As the strip progressed, several characters made recurring appearances, including Charlotte the Beagle, Spike the Hedgehog, and Professor Alexander Hamilton.
When Tom and Anthony left in 2009, the strip was discontinued, but now he and Kim have revived it for a new cadre of Charlotte Law students and faculty. Enjoy!
Farewell to a CharlotteLaw Staple
Today marks the last day of our original librarian, Anthony Aycock. Anthony is leaving Charlotte School of Law for a great opportunity with the North Carolina Justice Academy.
“A – We’ll miss you
” – Jamie Sunnycalb
“I wish you the best in all you do and the North Carolina Justice Academy is lucky to have you!” – Liz McCurry
“Anthony- I’ve enjoyed working with you this past year. Thank you for all of your help and support. You’ll be missed. Good luck and Best Wishes.” – Monica Alston-Carr
“I first met Anthony as a lowly MLIS student taking his Legal Research class at UNCC… and thus began my journey to the Charlotte School of Law. He’s the one who popped up when I was desperately searching for part time work and suggested a stint at CSL, which over time grew into my current position as Serials Librarian, and he’s been a constant source of entertainment and support ever since!”- Ashley Moye
“An honor, a privilege, and he will be missed” – Jeff Glass
See ya around Anthony!
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Stay Sharp During Summer: READ
Ah, summer. A time of no more school, no more books, etc. We wait for it all year, as Thomas Carlyle reminds us: “Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.”
It is a time for many things—rest, fun, travel—but for some people, summer is a time for reading. But what to read? Here are some web sites that offer stimulating yet satisfying content.
http://www.dailylit.com – Register for this site and get entire books e-mailed to you, one installment at a time. Some books are free in their entirety; others offer free excerpts before payment (often as little as $6.99) is needed. You can search for books that interest you, or you can browse by title, author, or category. Want to learn more? Check out the site’s FAQ page.
http://aldaily.com – Arts & Letters Daily is a collection of “the best writing on the Web.” Using a simple three-column format, the site summarizes and links to book reviews, essays, and opinion pieces covering philosophy, literature, language, culture, history, art, and more.
A section called Favorites links to other interesting sites, such as Overlawyered, a blog about “the high cost of our legal system.”
http://www.mentalfloss.com – Mental Floss is “where knowledge junkies get their fix.” Articles deal with mostly scientific and historical topics, and they are written in an accessible, entertaining style.
The site also has quizzes (my favorite: Ripped from Headlines or Plot from Scooby-Doo?), trivia, a blog, and the Amazing Fact Generator, from which I learned that only half a dolphin’s brain sleeps at one time. (The other, awake half makes the dolphin go up for air to prevent drowning.)
-Anthony Aycock-
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