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Friday Fun: Law School State of Mind

Posted on January 14, 2011
From the SMU Follies. [JH]

Heil Myself: The Legal Theater Works on Its New Musical -- Auf Wiedersehen LSAT, Guten Tag Legal Skills

Posted on January 14, 2011
"The Law School Admissions Test is a rite of passage for aspiring lawyers, but could go from mandatory to voluntary under proposed changes to the American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards" reports NLJ's Karen Sloan in ABA panel considering...

Profiling 112th Congress Freshman Members

Posted on January 14, 2011
OpenCongress Wiki has and is requesting additional information for its profile of each of the 100+ members of the freshman class of 2012. Freshman Members wiki. See also Conor Kenny's Open Congress Blog post, Get the Story (and Add What...

Trust but Verify and Do Not Cite: Wikipedia Turns 10 on January 15th

Posted on January 14, 2011
Tomorrow is Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. It is the fifth most popular website in the world and may be coming of age as a "pre-research" tool. Casper Grathwohl, vice president and publisher of digital and reference content for Oxford University Press,...

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Moving Beyond the Library Walls to Support Strategic Knowledge Management: A Not Just for Private Sector Law Librarians AALL Webinar; Registration Due by Feb. 10

Posted on January 13, 2011
Julie Bozzell, Chief Research and Knowledge Services Officer of the Information Resource Center, Hogan Lovells US LLP, and Toby Brown, Client Teams / Alternative Fees / KM Manager, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, will be conducting an AALL-sponsored webinar on KM...

Overdrive's eBook & Digital Content Distribution Shifts into Fifth Gear

Posted on January 13, 2011
In 2010, a record 185,000 eBook, audiobook, music, and video titles were added to OverDrive's catalog, which features one of the world's largest collections of industry standard EPUB eBooks. According to this press release, Overdrive eBook checkouts increased 200 percent,...

Opening: Research Librarian, DLA Piper, LA Office

Posted on January 13, 2011
DLA Piper is currently seeking a Research Librarian to be based in the Los Angeles office. Under the supervision of the Manager of Library Research Services, this position works with a national team of research librarians to support the research...

Harvard Law School Wants to Know Your Views About and Experiences with Mentoring in Law

Posted on January 13, 2011
Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession is conducting a survey analyzing legal mentoring. "We are interested in your experiences and opinions regarding how lawyers are mentored and how these relationships can impact lawyering and careers...

The 2010 White Collar Crime Awards

Posted on January 13, 2011
"Each year [White Collar Crime Prof Blog] has honored individuals and organizations for their work in the white collar crime arena by bestowing "The Collar" on those who deserve praise, scorn, acknowledgment, blessing, curse, or whatever else might be appropriate...

Opening: Reference and Electronic Services Librarian at Texas Tech

Posted on January 13, 2011
Texas Tech University School of Law Library, Lubbock, TX. Provides expert reference services in all areas of law and interdisciplinary subjects to faculty, students, and other library users; manages the law school?s Lexis and Westlaw programs; prepares library related publications;...

Initial Thoughts on a Plan to Restore FTC Oversight of Publisher Trade Practices

Posted on January 12, 2011
Bryan Carson has recently made a compelling case to reinstate a contemporary version of former FTC Guides for the Law Book Industry [Download Text of FTC Guidelines]. In fact, he suggests expanding reinstated guides to cover publishers in "medical and...

Opening: Technical Services Librarian, Univ. of Akron School of Law

Posted on January 12, 2011
Title: Associate Law Librarian Job Requisition # 006037 The Law Library seeks a highly motivated individual to oversee all aspects of the law library?s cataloging and processing functions for all types of library resources. Responsibilities include cataloging all types of...

Twitter Ordered to Turn Over Data About Users with WikiLeaks Ties to DOJ

Posted on January 12, 2011
The DOJ obtained a court order requiring Twitter to turn over account information about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leak suspect Pfc. Bradley Manning, former WikiLeaks activist Birgitta Jonsdottir, who is a member of Iceland?s parliament, and two computer programmers on...

Academic Presses To Offer eBook Collections to Libraries

Posted on January 12, 2011
JSTOR sent a longish press release out yesterday announcing plans to publish books online at JSTOR. Current and back catalog titles from Yale, Princeton, and the Universities of Chicago, Minnesota, and North Carolina will be part of the initial offering...

New Year's Resolutions from TR Legal's Rebranded "Customer Experience and Education" Department, Division, Whatever (?) -- It Has a Senior VP, So It Must be Important

Posted on January 11, 2011
Recently LLB called attention to eight contributors who, in thinking out loud fashion, expressed their New Year's resolutions for practicing their profession in a 3 Geeks Elephant post. Not that any publicity is needed since if you are not already...

Is Content the Only New Constraint for "Digital-First" Legal Publishers' Growth?

Posted on January 11, 2011
Once a legal publishing company has built out its web technology and digital publishing infrastructure, is content the constraint on the company's growth? ALM's CEO Bill Pollak says "yes." In a recent post about ALM's transformation from a traditional print-based...

Top 75% of Law Schools May Be Numerically Ranked in Next US News Law School Rankings Edition

Posted on January 11, 2011
NLJ's Karen Sloan is reporting that US News ranking guru Robert Morse informed AALS attentees last week that he is considering extending law school numerical rankings beyond the Top 100 to include the third tier in the next law school...

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on January 11, 2011
The Supreme Court released two opinions today, one of which is the first opinion written by Justice Kagan since her elevation to the Court. That case is Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N.A (09-907). Ransom declared bankruptcy in 2006. The...

HeinOnline Earns Choice's Outstanding Academic Title for World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources; Webinar Set for Jan. 27th

Posted on January 10, 2011
Congratulations to HeinOnline for its World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources being selected one of the year's Outstanding Academic Titles by the editorial staff of Choice. Out of 7,292 titles reviewed during the past year only 668...

How to Scrap Internet-Delivered Data for Conversion into a Database-Usable Format

Posted on January 10, 2011
"There is no data on the Internet that is actually impossible to download," writes ProPublica Nerd Blog's Dan Nguyen in The Coder?s Cause in ?Dollars for Docs?. The post's intention is not to signal how easy it is to violate...

Interview Series with Law Library of Congress Staffers

Posted on January 10, 2011
A bit hat tip to Library Boy a/k/a Michel-Adrien Sheppard for calling attention to the on-going series of interviews with Law Library of Congress staffers on the Custodia Legis blog. The series of interviews started off on October 27th, 2010...

Day 3 at AALS

Posted on January 08, 2011
At 7 am, law librarians met for breakfast and a talk with Dean Don Polden, who is chairing the ABA standards review committee. Dean Poliden began his talk by telling us he does not know how we do what we...

Day 4 at AALS

Posted on January 08, 2011
Before I relate important events about today, I need to amend my Day 3 post. After the presentation of papers by law librarians yesterday, the section on law librarians held a brief business meeting. At the meeting we voted for...

Friday Fun: A Day in the Life of a 1L

Posted on January 07, 2011
The creator of this video writes "I set my computer to take a picture every 30 seconds to document a normal day of law school." [JH]

Damn, TRI CEO Tom Glocer Is Not Eligible for AALL's Hall of Fame or Emerging Leader Awards

Posted on January 07, 2011
I was going to nominate TRI CEO (and occasional blogger) Tom Glocer for the AALL Hall of Fame or the Emerging Leader awards (after a quick nudge to join AALL since I don't believe he is a member) because he...

Opening: Reference Librarian, Wake Forest

Posted on January 07, 2011
The Wake Forest Professional Center Library is seeking a Law Reference Librarian with a strong service orientation. This person will serve as a faculty liaison to an active, research oriented faculty, participate in collection development and teach research to first-year...

Day 2 at AALS

Posted on January 07, 2011
On Day 2 in San Francisco, AALS attendees saw union supporters picketing the entrances to the Hilton where some programs remained programmed, including the full day Law Dean and Law Librarian workshop. I must admit, I felt horrible crossing the...

Got a Professional New Year's Resolution?

Posted on January 07, 2011
In another interesting 3 Geeks Elephant post, eight contributors write about their New Year's resolutions for practicing their profession. Embracing information technology and the changes they generate is a repeated theme. Snips from three contributors: Megan Wiseman: Lose weight: Technology...

Un-branding State Codes?

Posted on January 07, 2011
Some of my colleagues here at Buffalo pointed out that the cover of the new volumes of New York Consolidated Laws Service (CLS) published by LexisNexis are strikingly similar to it's competitor McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York published by...

Rebuilding an Academic Law Library in the 21st Century

Posted on January 06, 2011
Louis Mirando, Chief Law Librarian at Osgoode Hall Law School Library started his very interesting first Slaw post on rebuilding an academic law library on Aug. 11, 2010 with the following: Not all Slaw?s readers will be aware that Osgoode...

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