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Friday Fun on Thursday: YouTube Hidden Features!

Posted on September 03, 2009
A little Friday Fun on Thursday for those of us who are extending the 3-day Labor Day weekend to four days by taking tomorrow off. Check out the YouTube Hidden Features video from College Humor Labs' "completely accurate" tech series...

Over $730,000 Spent by Law Libraries in PACER Fees Last Year

Posted on September 03, 2009
Sanford Law Library Deputy Director Erika Wayne reports on a survey she conducted on law library PACER expenses in 2008. Apparently the survey was limited to law firm and academic law libraries but the findings still show that over $730,000...

Souter Bans Access to Papers for 50 Years

Posted on September 03, 2009
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter has placed a 50-year ban on public access to his personal and professional papers. In The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, Tony Mauro writes The unusually severe bar on access is...

Is There an e-Book Reader in Your Future?

Posted on September 03, 2009
Forrester Research forecasts the US e-Reader market to grow from 1 million units to 12 million by 2012 but an e-Book reader is not in my future. I'm liking the mini-laptop as an alternative to largely tethered, single purpose gizmos....

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Reminder: Today's Law Librarian Talk Show on Research Services and Products Law Firms Use

Posted on September 03, 2009
Today's Law Librarian Blog Talk Radio program, What's Real in the Real World?, will feature a discussion about what resources are being used in law firms with a group of firm librarians at 3:00 PM ET. Should be very interesting;...

Constitution Day is Every Day!

Posted on September 03, 2009
Actually, it's September 17th, the day in 1787 the U.S. Constitution was signed. For those of us in federal courthouses, it's also the time of year when we see school groups come to visit and learn about the judiciary and...

Free e-Books for Sony Reader at Heart of Deal Resulting in Google Chrome Becoming Default Browser on All New Sony PCs?

Posted on September 03, 2009
"Why would Sony preinstall Google's Chrome, which now has less than 3% of the browser market, when Firefox has nearly 23%?" asks the writer of Wharton's Knowledge Today's blog post, Google by Default. A comment to the post offers the...

Lexis or Westlaw No Longer a Blasphemous Question at BigLaw Firms

Posted on September 03, 2009
Librarians at 86 Am Law 200 firms completed American Lawyer's 2009 law library survey. Summary findings provided in Alan Cohen's Law Librarians Survey: No More Sacred Cows American Lawyer article include: 46% report budget cuts this year compared to 9%...

US Internet traffic peaks late at night as people stay up to surf

Posted on September 03, 2009
The Washington Post reports on a new study showing that the web surfing habits of Americans are changing. It used to be that most internet traffic occurred during the work day. But now researchers are seeing some of the heaviest...

Google Mobile App: What Might It Mean for Legal Research? Part 2

Posted on September 02, 2009
In part one of this post, I described Google Mobile Application (?GMA?), its effectiveness for certain kinds of legal research, the history of voice recognition for legal research in the U.S., and some factors suggesting that GMA may become a...

Federal Contracts with Social Media Providers Released

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Government Services Administration released several contracts and amendments to contracts between the federal government and Web 2.0 companies in response to an Electronic Privacy Information Center FOIA request. Here's links to the contracts: Agreements Blip...

Who Benefits? Unionization and Academic Libraries and Librarians

Posted on September 02, 2009
Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Rachel Applegate's article, Who Benefits? Unionization and Academic Libraries and Librarians has been published at 79 The Library Quarterly 443 (October 2009) (subscription required)...

Is Justice Stevens Retiring After the Upcoming Term?

Posted on September 02, 2009
News reports are speculating that Justice Stevens may retire because he has hired only one law clerk for 2010. A similar move apparently signaled Justice Souter's retirement. Retired justices usually have one clerk rather than three or four. Reports are...

Kudos to Catherine Best

Posted on September 02, 2009
Courthouse Libraries BC reports that The Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research has been redesigned with new features added. "Research lawyer Catherine Best has updated the site content, including information about newer tools such as RSS feeds, blogs, and Google...

Facebook quizzes pose privacy threat according to the ACLU

Posted on September 02, 2009
You know those oh-so-popular Facebook quizzes that tell you what European country or Sopranos' character you're most like? Or how your I.Q. compares to others on Facebook? Admit it - you've taken at least one or two. Well, before you...

Google's Gmail goes down big-time - millions of users left in the lurch

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Washington Post reports that Google's Gmail service was out of commission on Tuesday for several hours leaving tens of million users (including many businesses) without email service. It's yet another reminder of how dependent we've all become on Google...

Google Mobile App: What Might It Mean for Legal Research?

Posted on September 01, 2009
Voice search may soon become a popular tool for legal research in the U.S. The reason? The Google search engine?s smartphone application, called Google Mobile Application or Google Mobile App (?GMA,? currently available for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android phones), includes...

Is Peer Pressure Stimulating Increase in Web 2.0 Usage Among Adults 35 and Older?

Posted on September 01, 2009
The New York Times reports some Web 2.0 usage stats from a recent Forrester Research report. 80% on online adults of all ages use social media in some form at least monthly. Nearly 25% of adults are content creators by...

New Edition of Wojcik's Illinois Legal Research Just Released

Posted on September 01, 2009
I imagine John Marshall Law School (Chicago) prof Mark Wojcik's day is pretty full with teaching and blogging at International Law Prof Blog and Legal Writing Prof Blog but somehow he found the time write the second edition of his...

Germany Says Nein to Google Book Settlement and More

Posted on September 01, 2009
There are various moves in the ebook/reader business. The major one is the filing by the German government in District Court opposing the Google book settlement. Some of the reasons for opposition are that Google has digitized books by German...

Be Sad When Your Kindle Goes Away

Posted on August 31, 2009
What if you lose your Kindle or it's stolen? Amazon may not be much help when that happens, except to sell you another. Read one person's (bad) experience in Ars Technica. [MG]

Houston Public Library Offers Book Curb Service

Posted on August 31, 2009
Does your library have a parking problem? That's apparently the case for the Houston Public Library. Their solution is to provide curb service where staff will take your book order out to your waiting car. Library Executive Director Rhea Brown...

From Messenger Pigeons to the Web: Thomson Reuters Spends $1 Billion to Make Its Financial Information Services User Friendly

Posted on August 31, 2009
Reuters, "never really been known for its cutting-edge advances," will unveil Project Utah, the final leg of a $1 billion technology investment to upgrade its systems reports James Ashton in the Sunday Times, Thomson Reuters explodes into web age. Some...

No One Likes Heller (Or Why I'm Having the Citator Blues Again)

Posted on August 31, 2009
Like so many (or perhaps so few), on June 26, 2008, I anxiously awaited for the United States Supreme Court?s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008) to be handed down. The Court held that the...

Open Book Alliance Kicks Off Campaign Against the Google Book Settlement

Posted on August 31, 2009
Countdown to Court Review of Proposed Google Book Settlement September 4: Deadline for submissions to US District Court September 4: Deadline for authors/rightsholders to opt-out of settlement September 7: European Commission Hearing September 18: Deadline for Dept...

Beware the Armed Law Prof

Posted on August 31, 2009
As reported on LLB here and here, a Louisville Law School library staffer called university police when he saw Thomas H. Irwin, who was banned from campus for harassing an employee, walk into the law library. Irwin was charged with...

Ferrari and Smart Fail to Score Cash for Clunkers Sales

Posted on August 30, 2009
With the close of the Cash for Clunkers Programs, the Department of Transportation is reporting some stats about the program: 690,114 car sales were transacted with rebate applications totaling $2.877 billion. 84% of trade-ins were trucks, and 59% of new...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on August 29, 2009
Tampa Bay Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog http://www.tampabaycriminaldefenselawyerblog.com http://www.tampabaycriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/index.xml Reports on criminal law news, cases and opinions in Florida. Published by the Slavin Law Firm. Oregon Bankruptcy Lawyer Blog http://www...

Friday Fun: Divorce Court Will Never Be the Same

Posted on August 28, 2009
It started with the wildly popular wedding ceremony video on YouTube and quickly moved to divorce court. [JH]

iAWFUL's Top Ten Worst Legislative and Regulatory Proposals Targeted at e-Commerce

Posted on August 28, 2009
Through the Internet Advocates' Watchlist For Ugly Laws (iAWFUL) site, NetChoice, a coalition of trade associations and eCommerce businesses, tracks dangerous legislation and mobilizes citizens to defeat bills and proposals that threaten the future of ecommerce and online communication...

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