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Law Schools Could Save a Forest by Ending Law Porn Mailings: One Law Prof's Plea

Posted on September 15, 2009
In his Saving the Environment post on Concurring Opinions, Gerard Magliocca writes: Quit sending me brochures about your law school. I don?t vote in the U.S. News & World Report survey. Nor do I know anyone who does. I?m willing...

Robert Richard's Survey of Recent Developments on Legal Research Instruction

Posted on September 14, 2009
For the best survey of recent developments on legal research instruction I've seen in the law librarian blogosphere, check out LLB contributing editor Robert Richard's post on his Legal Informatics Blog. The very detailed post covers such topics as Testing...

Orin Kerr Needs Law Librarians' Advice

Posted on September 14, 2009
As one of the authors of the just released 5th edition of Hornbook on Criminal Procedure (with Wayne LaFave, Jerold Israel and Nancy J. King), Orin Kerr was given twenty-five copies of the new work by West. "That's about twenty-two...

Transforming Websites into Digital Branch Libraries

Posted on September 14, 2009
ALA TechSource will be hosting a one-hour webinar with David Lee King, author of Building the Digital Branch: Guidelines for Transforming Your Library Website (Library Technology Reports, Volume 45, Number 6, August-September 2009), on Tuesday, September 15th at 2:00 PM...

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Loyola University Chicago Law School to Be Renamed

Posted on September 14, 2009
The Loyola University Chicago Law School will be renamed the Philip H. Corboy Law Center. The name change is prompted by a gift by prominent Chicago personal injury attorney Corboy and his wife. The amount was not disclosed, but is...

Sears Knows More About You Than the Government, Maybe

Posted on September 14, 2009
Forget the alleged federal wiretapping that scanned the entire Internet, including personal communications, for references to terrorism. Sears has (or had) a better idea. Why not get U.S. consumers to install tracking software on their machines with their permission in...

Got $100, Buy Someone's Email or Social Media Site Password: No One Is Cracking Down on Hacker Services

Posted on September 14, 2009
Buying a password to almost anyone's Yahoo, Windows Live, Hotmail, MSN, Gmail, MySpace, FaceBook and AOL accounts is as easy as sending $100 to services like Slick Hackers. From the site: Welcome to SlickHackers.com The most reliable, fast and leading...

Licentious Gotham Meets Historical Newspaper Hunt

Posted on September 14, 2009
I am in the middle of a great book titled "Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York." It is, as the title suggests, an analysis of how New York became the center of pornography. Of course,...

IT Staff: Damn Those Antisocial, Insubordinate, Victim-Prone, Bullheaded and Credit-Whoring Geeks!

Posted on September 14, 2009
Not my experience or sentiment. Nor Jeff Ello's who distroys the geek stereotype facet by facet in Opinion: The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks, but with this cautionary note: I have come to realize that perfectly healthy groups with solid,...

Bing 2.0 About To Be Released?

Posted on September 13, 2009
Wait a minute, wasn't Bing 1.0 just released? Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft might roll out Bing 2.0 as early as Monday, Sept. 14. She writes "Microsoft rolled out Bing 1.0 in late May. The first rollout was as...

Sign of the Times: Getting Harder Every Day to Give Away Print Resources

Posted on September 13, 2009
From a recent law-lib message: Last call (emphasis added) for the following sets of books for postage, all updated to May 2009. USCA, has 2008 pocket parts West's Federal Practice Digest 4th, 49 boxes, has 2008 pocket parts- (2009 pocket...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on September 12, 2009
Miami Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog http://www.miamicriminaldefenselawyerblog.com http://www.miamicriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/index.xml Reviews criminal law news, cases and reports in Florida. Published by Donet, McMillan & Trontz. Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyers Blog http://www...

SharePoint in Plain English

Posted on September 12, 2009
Some say Microsoft's SharePoint may be the fastest-growing product in Microsoft's history even though it may also be as shoddy as the Company's other offerings. It looks like a relatively inexpensive enterprise-level platform for hosting websites, information stores, documents as...

Damage Award Against Microsoft Reversed in Patent Case

Posted on September 12, 2009
The Appellate court for the Federal Circuit upheld a jury decision that Microsoft infringed an Alcatel-Lucent patent but overturned the $358 million verdict. The patent involved a date picking feature in Outlook and other Microsoft software. The verdict was based...

Friday Fun: Library Pranks, Japanese Style

Posted on September 11, 2009
Note the library staffer in the background [JH]

Tracing the Policy Path of PACER User Fees

Posted on September 11, 2009
Stephen Schultze, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is looking for feedback for an extensive examination he plans to make about the role of user fees for public access to court records in the budgeting process...

Are Law Schools Making a Mission-Transforming Turn Toward Professional Education?

Posted on September 11, 2009
If your graduates are entering a professional career, one would think providing a professional education would be a no-brainer regardless of the labor market. Not so. In Reality's Knocking, Karen Sloan offers antedotal evidence to support the proposition that "the...

Through the Dharma Gate, Down the Rabbit Hole: Cincinnati Law's Paul Caron on "What's Wrong with Law School"

Posted on September 11, 2009
In a post entitled, What's Wrong with Law School, Cincinnati law prof Paul Caron quotes UC-Irvine Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky from a recent Los Angeles Times story about the opening of the law school, UCI Law has status, not...

SCOTUS Scores "Just About Right" Rating in Gallup's Latest Poll

Posted on September 11, 2009
As SCOTUS prepares to get down to business, Gallup reports that its 61% public approval rating is the most positive approval rating the Court has received since 2001. The heightened public approval of the Supreme Court is accompanied by an...

Google Offers To License the Book Database at Congressional Hearing

Posted on September 11, 2009
The most recent statement from Google about their exclusive control of the content that is subject to the Book Settlement is that they are willing to license it to other resellers. This came at a House hearing yesterday. The offered...

Google to Defend Book Settlement Before House Judiciary Committee Today

Posted on September 10, 2009
Google's Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, will be quizzed by the full House Judiciary Committee this morning as will be Paul Aiken, Executive Director of the Authors Guild. The speaker list also includes Paul...

"You have to start all over" when a new Justice joins SCOTUS: C-SPAN's Interviews with Supreme Court Justices

Posted on September 10, 2009
Here's some excerpts from C-SPAN interviews of Supreme Court Justices -- to be shown in their entirety during C-SPAN's "Supreme Court Week" beginning Oct. 4, 2009. Tied to Sonia Sotomayor's first appearance on the Bench, the quotes reflect Justice's thoughts...

Not a West! Moment: Hi, my name is Jen and I'm your Matthew Bender Account Manager

Posted on September 10, 2009
Jen has been my Matthew Bender account m...

Attorney Use of Free Email Services and Third Party Communications

Posted on September 10, 2009
Is the use of free email services like Gmail and Yahoo for client communications a violation of Rule 1.6(a) of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct because lawyers are revealing client information to a third party? Toby Brown says...

Law firms begin to develop policies on social media use

Posted on September 10, 2009
I'd previously posted on the Legal Writing Prof Blog a story about the USMC banning soldiers from using social media because, among other reasons, the security risks these forms of communication present. I speculated in the post that private law...

Will Microsoft buy Blackboard in 2010?

Posted on September 10, 2009
That's the hypothetical being posed by a blogger on the Inside Higher Ed website. Five reasons are suggested as to why we should expect to see Microsoft acquire the education-ware maker sometime next year. 1. The education market will continue...

Obama says to teens: "Be careful what you post on Facebook"

Posted on September 10, 2009
During his school speech yesterday, President Obama told teens to be careful about what they post on their Facebook pages. I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age, whatever you...

The International Conference on Academic Libraries & PKP

Posted on September 10, 2009
The International Conference on Academic Libraries meets in Delhi this October with an eye to create a future roadmap for academic libraries. The Conference, idea, and location are all intriguing, but what I want to report on is the conferencing...

Lexis offers sexy cheesecake calendar as part of rewards program

Posted on September 10, 2009
LexisNexis has just upped the ante in its competition with Westlaw for your online research dollars. Above the Law is reporting that Lexis has embarked on a new "rewards" program that allows subscribers to redeem points for "millions of items."...

IALL 2009 Website Award Contest

Posted on September 10, 2009
The International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) is seeking nominations for its annual website award contest. Here is the announcement: This is an opportunity to nominate your favourite legal information website. The winner will be announced at the 28th Annual...

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