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Opening: Reference Librarian & International/Comparative Specialist, Florida Coastal School of Law

Posted on March 01, 2011
The Florida Coastal School of Law is seeking candidates for the position of: Reference Librarian & International/Comparative Specialist. Coastal Law is a well-established and fiscally secure standalone institution that is fully accredited by the American Bar Association...

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on March 01, 2011
The Supreme Court issued three opinions this morning. None of them are controversial, though they do settle some points of law. The most newsworthy opinion involves the privacy rights of corporations under FOIA law. At issue in the case of...

Is Thomson Reuters Going to Be a Sponsor for AALL's Annual Meeting in Philly This Year?

Posted on February 28, 2011
I doubt AALL has quietly banned Thomson Reuters from sponsoring Philly 2011 since the Company did provide pricing information AALL asked for to produce the current edition of the Price Index. Well, let's put it this way, if AALL has...

Today's Agenda for the Proceedings AALL Members Will Not Be Able to View for Themselves: AALL's Vendor Colloquium

Posted on February 28, 2011
From scanning AALL's website, it looks like no webcast, live or archived, will be available to uninvited AALL members for the Vendor Colloquium. In Sarah Glassmeyer's recent post, On Transparency and Openness, she wrote: All I?m asking to know is...

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Opening: Assistant Librarian for Collection Management and Preservation, Library of the Supreme Court of the United States

Posted on February 28, 2011
The Supreme Court of the United States has an opening for an Assistant Librarian for Collections Management and Preservation. The offical and complete announcement, including how to apply, is posted here. What follows are snips from it. Do note that....

Crownsourcing the UK's Protection of Freedoms Bill

Posted on February 28, 2011
From the Civil Liberties and Identity Policy Unit of the Home Office's Public Reading Stage site: The Government is committed to continuing this public engagement with the content of the Protection of Freedoms Bill. This website gives you the opportunity...

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on February 28, 2011
The one opinion issued by the Supreme Court today concerns the Confrontation Clause. It is one of those rulings where the Court analyzes the facts and circumstances of the underlying case to determine the application of the law in a...

Law Student Research Competency Task Force Hosts Blog for Comments on Draft Principles

Posted on February 28, 2011
Law Student Research Competency Task Force Hosts Blog for Comments on Draft Principles ? Tuesday, March 1 through Friday, March 4th Last November the Law Student Research Competency Task Force hosted an online discussion. The discussion very much enhanced our...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on February 27, 2011
Indiana Intellectual Property Lawyer Blog http://www.iniplaw.org http://www.iniplaw.org/index.xml Covers intellectual property cases, reports and news in Indiana. Published by Overhauser Law Offices, LLC. Mississippi Lawyer Blog http://www.mississippilawyerblog...

UMass School of Law Performance Better Than Expected

Posted on February 27, 2011
So how is that first public law school in Massachusetts working out? Well enough, if this article in the South Coast Today is to be believed. The Chancellor is quoted as saying that the school is sending $918,000 to the...

Do you like your ILS?

Posted on February 27, 2011
Earlier this month, Marshall Breeding released Perception 2010: an International Survey of Library Automation which garnered over 2100 responses. The questions asked were centered around how satisfied libraries were with their ILS and how they rated the customer service provided...

A Pick-Me-Up for the Library Blues: This Book is Overdue!

Posted on February 26, 2011
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (P.S.) By Marilyn Johnson Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 25, 2011) Paperback Print List Price: $14.99; Amazon Sale Price: $8.35; Kindle Price: $9.99 Price: $8.35 From BookMarks Magazine:...

Friday Fun: "There are many reasons we need to save our libraries, not least because of their cinematic history."

Posted on February 25, 2011
The Guardian UK wonders what would replace libraries as backdrops to movie action if they went away. "Discovering the murderer on an app? Searching the shelves of ? Amazon? It just won't do." The article includes a number of video...

Check out the Digital Public Library of America Initiative Wiki

Posted on February 25, 2011
On December 13, 2010, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society announced that the Center is hosting an initiative for a Digital Public Library of America involving a large and diverse group of stakeholders to define the scope, architecture, costs....

Updated Guide to Law Review Submission Requirements

Posted on February 25, 2011
Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals [SSRN] by Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit (both UMKC LAW) contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements,...

Law School Dean Gigs: It's One of the More Thankless Jobs

Posted on February 25, 2011
Particularly if one wants to try to persuade entrenched tenured faculty to reform the legal academy but Dan Filler has posted his Law School Dean Searches 2010-11 Edition. Over 20 openings include a couple in Canada. [JH]

Death Penalty News, there's an app for that

Posted on February 25, 2011
The Death Penalty Information Center is offering a free iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch app which provides access to the most frequently used resources on DPIC's main website, including its Fact Sheet on the Death Penalty, Execution Database, and the...

Interested in Knowing More About How Law Librarians Are Involved in Vendor Product Development Testing and Pricing?

Posted on February 24, 2011
After reading Librarian Involvement in Product Development Testing, The CRIV Sheet, Feb. 2011 at 9, I still wanted to know how law librarians are involved in product development and pricing of legal information resources. CRIV member Mary Jenkins' interview piece...

The LISNews 10 Blogs To Read in 2011

Posted on February 24, 2011
Blake on LISNews "started the "10 Blogs To Read This Year" way back in 2006 to help highlight the wide range of people writing in the many different areas of librarianship. Each year we've attempted to point out a group...

Price and Kennedy Launch INFOdocket and FullTextReports

Posted on February 24, 2011
Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy, the founders and senior editors of ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for almost 10 years, have launched InfoDocket posting news and developments announcements for current awareness purposes. INFOdocket will be our home for new or newly-discovered web...

In The News

Posted on February 24, 2011
What with Madison, Wisconsin, embroiled in demonstrations over whether or not public employees will lose collective bargaining rights, it comes as no surprise that one of the top downloads recently at GAO is a 48 page report from 2002 called...

Why The Largest Publishers Require Us To Unite Efforts In Consumer Advocacy

Posted on February 23, 2011
In ?Three Jermaids? (12/23/2010 NY Review of Books), Robert Darnton describes how exorbitant pricing of journal subscriptions has strained academic library budgets. Because academic libraries have had to spend much more on journals, they have much less to spend on...

Ever Hear of the FBI's "Going Dark" Program to Expand Surveillance Because of the "Intercept Capability Gap"?

Posted on February 23, 2011
In Newly Released Documents Detail FBI?s Plan to Expand Federal Surveillance Laws, EFF is reporting it just received documents "in response to a 2-year old FOIA request for information on the FBI?s "Going Dark" program, an initiative to increase the....

Legal Research Textbook Reviewers Wanted

Posted on February 23, 2011
The Research Instruction Committee of the RIPS-SIS is looking for persons interested in reviewing legal research texts. Details in the RIPS Law Librarian post. [JH]

Supreme Court Action on Wednesday

Posted on February 23, 2011
The Supreme Court issued two more opinions this morning. The two cases concern whether federal safety regulations preclude a state tort action, and whether California's variable time limits for instituting a habeas corpus petition are reasonable. The case of Williamson...

Bringing Serious Gaming to Legal Skills Training: Integrating Doctrinal Education with Simulation

Posted on February 22, 2011
Knowing that law school grades have little if anything to do with evaluating success in practicing law, Dutch BigLaw firm Houthoff Buruma teamed up with Ranj Serious Games to create "The Game" as a recruitment tool. Trailer below. The objective...

Welcome to the Blogosphere: O'Grady Launches Dewey B Strategic: Risk, value, strategy, libraries, knowledge and the legal profession

Posted on February 22, 2011
BigLaw firm library director Jean O'Grady lanuched Dewey B Strategic last week and if her first post is any indication of what's to follow, her blog's feed will be worth subscribing to. See "Vendor Sourcing" : Thinking the unthinkable as...

Taking Affordability Into Account for Law School Rankings

Posted on February 22, 2011
On WSJ Law Blog Nathan Koppel reports on Malcom Gladwell's attempt to rank law school taking affordability into account based on a weighted three factor method: the value of the tuition dollar (40%), LSAT scores (40%) and faculty publishing (20%)....

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on February 22, 2011
The Supreme Court issued two opinions today, one of which is getting wide news coverage. That decision is Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC. (09-152). The case involves the tort immunity Congress granted pharmaceutical companies for claims over vaccine-related adverse side effects...

Which Pre-Law Program Makes More $ense, Cornell's or Above the Law's?

Posted on February 21, 2011
ATL's Elie Mystal evaluates Cornell's ?Pre-Law Summer? program. The program's main benefit is helping undergrads answer five key questions about being a lawyer. How do the careers of lawyers portrayed in Boston Legal and Law & Order compare to those....

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